Gentle Bens Copperhead Pale Ale

Gentle Bens Brewing Company
Brewed at Barrio Brewing Co.
Style: English Pale Ale
Tucson, Arizona USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Growler from the brewery. Copper gold pour with thick white head. Very fresh citrus and pine hop aroma. Resiny hop bitterness with a nice crisp malt taste. Good session brew.

Growler pour with deep clear gold body and copper hues supporting an off white head. The aroma offers up spicy hops, a bit of earthy hops as well as roasty malts, a bit of earthy malts and then a mild tropical fruit sensation off in the background. The taste has a mix of spicy hops, grapefruit hops and some roasty malts too. This is just a good tasty hop forward amber that I’m really enjoying.

(Draught) Pours a clear golden body with a medium white head. Aroma of orange, grass, florals, and bread. Flavor of caramel, orange, light pine, florals, and peach.

On tap at Barrio Brewing. Pours a clear light orange with a thin white head. Aroma of citrus and piney hops, tropical fruits, sweet caramel malt. Flavor is mostly sweet citrus hops, well blended with a caramel malt base. Very easy drinking. Great hoppy pale! 8/4/8/4/14 (3.8/5)

Orange pour with creamy tan head and lace. Light resin and caramel malt aroma. Flavor mirrors aroma. Medium bodied but fizzy. Decent drinker.

on tap-pours a disappearing off white head and gold/amber color. Aroma is pine, some light/medium malt. Taste is pine/resin/pineapple hops with some bite, secondary light/medium malt-caramel. Ok carbonation.

on tap as part of the sampler pours deep gold with a medium white head. Aroma is grassy all around, hops, malts, very earthen and clean. Flavor is much the same with hay and grass ending with a nice clean grassy hop finish. I feel like this was super fresh as the hops in the finish were very nice.

Draft at pub. Again, has the right idea started here, just not filled in with enough flavor. Very similar to the IPA, but more balanced.

[Tap] Pours a darker shade of gold with a solid white head. Floral hops and biscuits/bread in the aroma. Toasted malts in the taste, followed by mild grassy hops, lemongrass and even some spruce notes. Lingering sweet malt finish. Average mouthfeel and body. A pretty decent brew.

Draft at Barrio. Pours clear gold/amber; medium white head, spotty lacing. Nose is juicy hops, some spice, light stonefruit. Flavours of big yeast, some fruit. Very middle-of-the-pack, but no serious flaws here.