Goose Island Green Line Pale Ale

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev)
Style: American Pale Ale
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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I absolutely love this beer. Can get it on tap at most Buffalo Wild Wings restaurants. $3 tall draft on Thursdays means I drink a lot of this beer every week. Great session beer

A spruce type aroma, very citrus taste, like the IPA but less bitter. My favorite Chicago beer.

Green Line Pale Ale is a honey-colored, immensely sessionable American pale ale with a pronounced, bright, American hop aroma and citrus flavor. Notes of biscuit and lightly toasted malt create the backbone for Green Line’s pleasant, crisp bitterness.

Draft at Jerry’s. Gold with big, foamy white head / Nose of cream, citrus, and biscuit / Medium body, soft carbonation, with good balance and dry, creamy finish / Flavors of lemon, passionfruit, cream, biscuit, and dry hops / A different sort of apa, more bready than fruity, but very nice.

One of my all time favorites, Green Line is a delightful treat from Goose Island. Hoppy while not too bitter, a smooth drink that delights the senses.

Had this before a Sunday afternoon tour of the brewery on North Clybourn Ave Poured from the tap into a Green Line pint glass. The color is a a deep amber with a nice two fingers of foamy white head and some nice lacing left on the glass. The smell is a bit hoppy with some nice bitterness that has a touch of grass and some sweet sugary flavor that is switching back at forth with each sniff as to which will be on top. The taste is popping with a good hop presence that is earthy and floral with some nice sweet malt flavor fighting to even things out. There is a nice rosy flavor that comes to me and is quite pleasant. The feel of this beer is a well balanced beer with the hop and the malt taking turns to talk to your taste buds. It goes down smooth with a rather clean aftertaste but a slight hop bitterness that goes into a slapping of the lips. It may feel like a handful at first but is a really balanced beer.

Goose Island O’Hare. Pale orange pour with a tight white head. The aroma is softly zesty and spicy with a little bit of soft juicy orange pulp as well. Lean bodied with a nice crackery malt flavour. Light and zesty with a bright fresh finish. Great balance and excellent quaffibility. A great brew really. A touch of woodiness to the bitterness that also works.

Nice gold pour white head. Aroma is so clean and crisp, nice juicy hops and some good honeyed malts. Flavor is smooth, clean, so easy to drink. A great balance of fruitiness, hops and malt. Nice!

How well they do a pale ale to me defines a brewery. This was a full pint at the brewery on the day after DLD 2013. It came in the glass a clear gold color with a nice white head. Good lacing rings. The nose was of caramel malts and citrus hops. Medium in body with a clean smooth mouth feel. The flavor was tropical fruit, floral and citrus hops. Finish is dry and bitter. This is a solid APA and very easy drinking. Goose Island passed the test.

Had this on draft at the CHIRP record fair. Poured a nice amber color with a decent-sized head. Lots of hops of various varieties throughout. Tasted much like a GI beer, but much more mellow. Actually, probably the most easy drinking of their hop beers (had three as I looked over the vinyl). Definitely get this again if I see it out. A good choice.