Lone Tree Outta Range Pale Ale

Brewed by Lone Tree Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Lone Tree, Colorado USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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December 28th, 2011 - Hot on the heels of Lone Tree Brewing’s Oatmeal Stout came the Outta Range Pale Ale, with the promise of a vista full of hops, and maybe something a grade more intense than another hoppy offering on the menu. Although this brew kicks up a rich head, the smell is faint. Fevered sniffing uncovers a little pine resin and a nice hops blend, but the Outta Range is aromatically muted. The carbonation is a noisy bustle on the tongue, blocking out any other flavor or sensation until the mid-taste, where light touches of honey, apple and a faint hops bitterness blend. There’s a lot of sugar in here, and less hops than I had hoped, and not enough alcohol to push back against the apple and honey flavors.

Tap @ Lone Tree. Pours a murky, yellow orange appearance with a white head. Fairly spicy, piney, resiny, light citrus hoppy aroma. A bit chewy, bright liberty hoppy, somewhat spicy flavor. Nice stuff.
Earlier Rating: 1/27/2012 Total Score: 2.6
Tap @ brewery. Cloudy, golden orange appearance with a small white head. Very earthy, herbal, a touch citrus hoppy aroma. Dull, earthy, tangy, barnyard (?), bitter flavor. Hmmm, maybe try a different combo of hops?

Taster. Pours a medium white head, over a slightly hazy gold (SRM 5) body...nose is light pine, citrus...taste is light toffee/caramel, light pine, with a more dominant citrus.....mouth feel medium, slightly sticky, carbonation low. The hop back bone is in ascendance over the malts, with the hops used becoming a bit in the "new age" direction. BJCP 7/3/12/4/6

Tap. Pours clear gold with average, fizzy white head; short retention and spare lacing. Aroma is grassy and floral hops, biscuit and cookie malt, citrus, pine, and faint corn. Flavor is balanced malt and hops (light bitterness) with some fruit esters; dry finish. Medium body and carbonation with low/medium warmth.

On tap at Lone Tree poured a clear tarnished gold with a small lingering off white head. Aromas of biscuit, grapefruit, orange zest, pine and light earthiness. Palate was light bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of biscuit, earthiness, grapefruit and light pine with a smooth dry bitter lingering citrus finish.

Tap. Pours clear amber with a medium, fizzy white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is cereal and biscuit malt, floral and citrus hops with fruity esters. Flavor is malt with heavy hops and bitterness, fruity esters and a dry finish. Medium body, warmth and carbonation.

Hazy orange pour - nose is very earthy, piney and dank - flavor is a bit sweet - lightly estery - but with loads of earthy simcoe hop flavor - woody - a bit of sweet orange and candied citrus peel - lightly peppery in the finish, with lingering sweetness - the hop flavor is nice, but overall the sweetness needs to be dialed down.

Slightly hazy, bright orange copper with a thin filmy head with good lacing. Pretty assertive hoppy aroma with some tropical bitter fruitiness, some pine resin, and perhaps some floral notes as well. Taste was much the same but has a certain resiny hop tone I wasn’t too big a fan of. There’s a hefty hop profile of floral, pine, and grapefruit tones. It’s not too bitter but it’s just resinous. Nice toffee malt backbone that stays a little quiet while the hops take the spotlight. Balanced, but is more like an IPA

Pour is hazy orange with thin white head at the brewery, aroma has notes of grass, pine, slight citrus oils, hints of caramel. Taste is some bitter grass and slightly astringent notes, hints of biscuit finishes a bit soapy. Ok.