Millrose Country Inn Ale

Millrose Restaurant and Brewing Co.
Brewed at Capital Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
South Barrington, Illinois USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Golden in color, clear with a medium light-white head. Corny, malty aroma. Corny flavor. A pale ale? Riiiight. I wanted to stand up and boo.

Draft at Millrose Restaurant and Brewing Co. Off-white head with poor retention, transparent pale yellow body, very little carbonation, and very little lacing. The aroma was malty, grainy and next to no hops. Ditto for the flavor. Smooth mouthfeel and light bodied. This is an APA?? Where are the hops??

Looks just like the Prairie Pils. Light straw color with a modest white head. Hints of grain and pale malt. Sweet grain, some light fruit and light herbal hops flavors. Very much like the pils, but brewed with an ale yeast.

Pour is clear yellow with a thin soapy looking white head...smell is grainy....taste is very cereal with some hints of sweetness...I have discovered their house character at last!

This draft brew from the brewery poured a medium sized head of foamy white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a transparent softly carbonated straw yellow colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was astringent and malt hop. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start mediumly tingly at the finish. The flavor contained notes of malt mild hops grassy and mild astringency. Not one that I would buy again.

Draught: Faint aroma. Poured light gold in color with a small white head that lasted throughout. No lacing. Clear. Sparkling. Flavor of corn and some fruity hops. Light body. Thin, watery texture. Soft carbonation. Crap.

Sampler at Millrose. Look, I was last here 13 years ago; it was maybe my second brewpub visit ever. And I don’t think the beers have changed at all: same old yuppie bland beers while other brewers are out leading the craft beer renaissance. This one is a cloudy, pale blond ale more than a pale ale. Light ale fruitiness, but not much else. A touch of alcohol headiness, but not enough hops to pass for a pale ale.

On tap at brewery. Too bland, there’s not much to this beer. I’d expect stronger hops and more complexity. What I got was less hops, more bread. Standard color and head.

UPDATED: AUG 12, 2007 Had this on draught in South Barrington, Illinois. For a pale ale, I was left wanting. Not particularly hoppy in the nose or the taste, but more balanced than I’m used to. Copper color, thin head. Smooth, almost bland finish. Not bad, but not a good example of the type.

This was a light brown slightly grainy malt containing ale. The hops were there in a slightly grassy mode to balance the malt. Nothing impressive, but worth drinking.