Franciscan Well Purgatory Pale Ale

Brewed by Franciscan Well
Style: American Pale Ale
Cork, Ireland

Yellow with a small white head. Weak grainy aroma with a honey note. Dry and grainy flavour with hops and honey in the aftertaste

Served on tap at the Porterhouse Temple Bar at the Independent Irish Beer & Whiskey Festival. Pours a nice orange color, a bit hazy, with a 1 finger head that disappears slowly. Smells nice and hoppy with a hint or floral/citrus. Tastes like it smells with the hops being the overwhelming character and a bit of grapefruit and bitterness. A bit rough around the edges when compared to more smooth examples of APAs, but still goes down nice. I think that it went well with the Porterhouse burger. I would have more of these in one session, but had to get my hands and taste buds on other beers that were available at the Festival. Comparable to Galway Hooker Irish Pale Ale.

(Cask at GBBF, London, 6 Aug 2008) Pale yellow colour with almost no head. Fruity, grassy nose with tropical fruit. Fruity, malty taste with notes of grass, tropical fruit and some soapy, floral hops in the finish (what happened with the Cascade hops?). Fairly thin and rather boring.

Cask@GBBF2008. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is malts, fruity hops and some mild hints of grapefruit and honey. Flavour is honey, hops, some grass and some pine.

Cask (GBBF 2008) - Light golden in colour. Faint aroma of malt and some hops. Bitter taste with a slight hint of grapefruit. Rather bland and it seems they used the cascade hops rather sparingly.

Draught @ Tara’s Speciality Beer House. Clear amber with medium off white head. Sweet and hoppy aroma with caramel notes. Sweet and hoppy flavor with caramel and pine notes. Ends bitter.

@ Tara’s Speciality Beer House in Killaloe: Clear amber, no head, weak floral notes of hops, wood and grapefruit. Taste is bitter with bitter finish.

Cask@ Easter Beer Festival, Franciscan Well. Dark copper with a medium head. Floral hoppy aroma with some malty sweetness. Toasted malt flavour with a fairly decent level of cascade bitterness on the finish. Ok but not great.