Kentucky Ale

	Percentile
	27
	overall

Brewed by Lexington Brewing Co. (Alltech)
Style: Amber Ale
Lexington, Kentucky USA

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Ratings	Average	Score	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
119	2.79/5.0	2.79/5.0	4.5%	26.9	English pint, Shaker

Commercial Description:
Kentucky Ale is a marriage between two classic beer styles, Irish Red Ale and English Pale Ale. The Kentucky Ale mashing program uses: • the finest 2-row imported Harrington malt, • select caramel malt varieties grown both domestically and abroad, • a pinch of wheat malt for a smooth, creamy taste. Varieties of the English hops East Kent Goldings and Fuggles impart a spicy yet soft, floral aroma without a harsh, bitter aftertaste. These ale hops are used to balance the sweetness of the malt and are an important flavor component of Kentucky Ale. Light copper in color, the unique body and character of Kentucky Ale is heavily influenced by the water, drawn from aquifers in the limestone underlying the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky.

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MmmcKay (276), Brentwood, Tennessee, USA

2	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2	3/10	3/5	3/10	3/5	8/20

Aug 4, 2009

Sampled at the 8th Annual Music City Brewer’s Festival. Amber color. Transparent. Nothing much good about this beer. The bourbon barrel is vastly superior. Flabby and boring

Butters (1646), Virginia, USA

2.6	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.6	6/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	9/20

Jul 25, 2009

Sampled on draft at the Music City Brewers Festival. Pours a clear amber with thin ring of whitish head. Clean amber with a slightly nutty quality and a sweet caramel backbone that is mixed with a corn? Not bad, but not good. Preytty average micro.

502Flavors (617), Louisville, Kentucky, USA

3.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.1	5/10	3/5	6/10	3/5	14/20

Jun 16, 2009

Bottle. Pretty good stuff. Surpriased it took me so long to get around to this one. Simple amber ale but with a nice subtle (but not so subtle you need to dig to find it) hop profile on the flavor. Easy drinking, fresh, and inoffensive.

Bov (5425), Bienne, Switzerland

2.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.3	4/10	4/5	5/10	2/5	8/20

Jun 4, 2009

courtesy of Laurent Mousson (WBA) - clear and bright amber colour with a firm and long lasting foam; beautiful lace; diacetyl in the nose and not much else; soft mouthfeel, sweet with some late tartness; residual sweetness with flowery and light caramelish aftertaste - not good

mbgrayson (142), Anaconda, Montana, USA

2.6	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.6	5/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	10/20

Apr 25, 2009

It’s beer! Got a bottle at the Marriott Bar in Covington Kentucky. A little sweet, and nothing particuraly disctinctive about it. A little better than your mass market brews though.

Cletus (5052), Connecticut, USA

2.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.1	4/10	3/5	4/10	2/5	8/20

Mar 1, 2009

Pours red with a thin pink head. Smells vegetal and caramelly. Tastes sweet with nothing else going on here.

fromred2green (151), , Ohio, USA

2.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.8	5/10	2/5	6/10	3/5	12/20

Feb 19, 2009

Bottle. Pours a light brown with a small white head. The carbonation forms many bubbles on the side of the glass. Taste is sweet and light, not very hoppy, and certainly not in the mold of an IPA, although it sort of looks like an IPA by color. Decent ale, probably won’t drink again.

Ryan82SM (240), Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
1.7	3/10	2/5	3/10	2/5	7/20

Nov 1, 2008

Sweet aroma, light appearance, watery flavor, weak palate, a poor man’s Bass Ale, which isn’t saying much.

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