Lamar Street Organic Pale Ale

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Chicago, Illinois USA

my first trip to whole foods. beer name has changed too "lamar street ""organic"" pale ale". i bought both labels because i thought they were different. now i’m angry. anyway, its pours a lightly hazy dark gold with a small head(wow....just like that hometown summer sunset!). hoppy aroma with hints of bready malt. flavor is lightly hoppy with notes of tea and a hint of bready malt. pretty standard stuff.

Cloudy apricot orange/gold brown. Head is large bubbled, buttery white. Smells of pine. Tastes like a gimmicky, berry-weizen. Nothing like an IPA! A little watery, malt, blueberry in after.

Slightly hazy with small particles, orange amber. A yeasty, hoppy aroma. consistent flavor.

Bottle courtesy of Ughsmash, best by 063007: Pours a transparent bright copper bronze with a frothy-lacing light tan head. Dry grainy earthy aroma has a touch of citric hops. Body starts faintly sweet with a lot of earthy grainy character toward a drier, buttered grapefruit finish. Needs a better, cleaner base malt and more, fresh aroma and flavor hops.

Bottled. Poured clear medium golden with a short white head. Nose picked up soft, sweet floral, caramel, and mild grains.. touch of lemon. Flavor found a lightly-toasted caramel base with mild herbal bitterness and again a hint of lemon. Pleasant and drinkable, but certainly boring. Soft and lightly grainy on the palate.. a bit less than medium-bodied... mild lingering bitterness on the short finish.

Pours clear copper with a fizzy / rocky off-white head. The aroma has grainy / husky malt with a tiny bit of butter and some earthy spice hops. Medium body with quite a bit of sharp carbonation. Taste starts with grainy malt and grassiness. Some spice from hops and a bit of diacetyl on the finish. An okay pale ale; however, it seems to have more of a pilsener taste than anything - odd thing for an ale.

Amber with a fading white head. Nice lacing. Herbal hop aroma with some underlying grainy malt notes. Flavor is slightly sweet malt with a spicy hop finish. Not bad, especially for the price ($4.99).

Found this 12oz Bottle at Whole Foods in Union Square. Deep orangey pour topped by a white film. Grainy citrus aroma. Some orange peel, and hints of bready grains. Light in body. Grainy flavors with only light hints of bitter orange. There’s a big herbal character, with some spicyness in the finish. Prolonged herbal and spicy characteristics in the finish as well (sage?). Interesting, but nothing standout.