Karl Strauss Pintail Pale Ale

Brewed by Karl Strauss Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Draft @ the brewpub, San Diego, CA. Pours a pale amber color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity malty hoppy citrus flavor with hints of caramel. has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish.

Bottle. Pours amber orange with an off white head, Light toffee sweet malts, with earthy hops, and almost spicy grassy notes. Relatively balanced. Not bad.

Draught at Antenna America, Yokohama. Clear brown - white head. Nice malty. Ok hoppy. Mild hoppy compaired to the cocoa/chocolate malty taste. Ok bitterness. Herbal/tea notes. Nice fruity notes.

Light, sweet aroma of citrus with maybe some pine. Definate presence of sweet malt. Mouthfeel is pleasantly light with low carbonation. A little bitterness at the end. It’s a mild example of the type. Pleasant , but not exciting.

Orange pour with a white head. Nice citrus hop aroma. Big orange, tangerine, and some grapefruit. A good bread malt aroma and some toffee. Nice sweet citrus flavors of orange and tangerine. Some grapefruit, light pine, and maybe a hint of grass. Mild bitterness with some sweet bready malt.

Tap @ Carlsbad brewpub. Slightly hazy golden orange pour with a slick of white foam. Aroma is light bitterness, citrus and pine with a heavy sweet malt presence. Taste is a nice balance of pine and bitterness but there’s a heavy sweet malt, caramel flavor in the background which muddies it up quickly. Not very clean.

Bottle. Pours an Amber colour, looks a little like a lager. Aroma is quite faint, can’t really smell anything, though what i can smell is a bit of apricot and pine. Taste. I can mainly taste apricot, with also some grapefruit, followed by a nice toffee and sweet bread malt backing. Overall. A good beer, easy drinking, although a little bland for my liking, i would enjoy this as a session beer and it is something i would rate very highly as an entry level apa.

On tap at the brewpub - Pours clear amber with a thin off-white head. Nose is a blast of citrus--grapefruit with a little pine and onion. Clean malt body, crackery with nice grapefruit and floral hops. Thin and clean body. Awesome--just what I’m looking for in an APA.

Pours a golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is malt, fruits, caramel, citrus and some bread. Taste is light to medium sweet of fruit and caramel leading to a light to medium bitter finish. OK.

Old bottle, had to be, no way someone would sell this as a APA, flat lifeless beer malt bomb and paper.