Franciscan Well Purgatory Pale Ale

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

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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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.

Draught at Porterhouse, Dublin. Hazy copper colour, small head. Quite intense bitter orange aroma. Mid sweet with solid body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Cookie-like malt mixes with salty grapefruit. Marked bitter finish. Rather hoppy, but also a bit rough.

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.

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

Sample at the brewpub. This beer is a clear amber-orange color with a medium thin off-white head that dissipates steadily to an outer ring. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of hops and citrus. Light-bodied with flavors of grassy hops, citrus and malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a lingering citusy hops aftertaste. Decent overall.

Cask @ Bull and Castle, Dublin. Cuivre opaque, col est minime; Arôme de renfermé avec le houblon donnant des notes de citron restant dans ce style anglais avec une approche US dans l’usage du houblon Cascade. En bouche, une bière qui partage le coté pale ale avec le houblon américain, note herbeuse et épicée allant vers le pamplemousse, agrumes et citron pour un aspect finement amer. Malt reste présent quoique en retrait et donne à la bière une touche de caramel.

(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 (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.

The head is ok, the body golden-orange. It smells hoppy, a bit fruity, less malty, decend. The taste is hoppy, bitter, grapefruit, hoppy, a bit malty. Easy drinkable Pale Ale. 11/12/11/11/-/11

@ 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.