Napa Smith Pale Ale

Brewed by Napa Smith Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Napa, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

Bottle @ home. Not really looking forward to this after having the Red, which I detested but here goes. Transparent, light golden orange appearance with a small, cream colored head. Toasty malty, caramel, dull earthy, woody aroma. Fairly bland, toasty caramel malty, bready, biscuity, woody/earthy flavor. Bleh.

21 Dec 2011, bottle. light yellow, clear, tiny, steady bubbles with frothy head. nose is weird spruce aroma that isn’t that great. thin/med body and surprisingly it is almost flat. odd flavor as well. sweet, rich malt, some faint spruce and a twinge of ivory or something odd. not a fan.

pours clear gold with a large sudsy head. Nice yeasty/citrus aroma. The flavor starts very non-dimemo and finishes with an unpleasant hop flavor that is piney to the point of a soapy flavor. The mouthfeel is thin with heavy carbonation. An unpleasantly off aftertaste follows. Even though I enjoy heavy hops, this beer needs more than just bitterness to be good

Bottle:   Pale golden, fairly clear, moderate white soapy head, low carbonation, patches of lacing.   Dull hop aroma, a little cereal, cardboardish malts.   Low bitterness on the tongue, pale hop flavor, cereal, cardboard. &Nbsp Not all that appealing.   Body and mouthfeel are less than stellar.   Honeycomb cereal like finish.   Yeah, not even remotely entertaining.   Wouldnt stand a chance in the PNW in terms of head to head Pale Ale.   Blech...

Tasted on 10/9/11 from a 12oz bottle. Pours hazy burnt orange with an average off-white head that slowly recedes to thin, bubbly lace. The nose is caramelized, with malted milk, a hint of toffee, and some herbal, lightly bitter hops aroma. The flavor is malty with caramel up front, after which the pleasantly bitter herbal hops take over, with a hint of dough yeast. The body is light with average carbonation, and a medium, lightly bitter hops, and somewhat sticky finish.

Caramel colored, thin schmear of foam. Smells like caramel and tofee, and tastes like it, too. Plus a smoky note, and a clean, lightly hoppy finish

12 ounce bottle. Pours an orangish gold with a nice white head. Aroma of malt and floral hops. Taste is slightly sweet malt, hops and some citrus notes. Enjoyable.

hazy gold, fluffy white head, quite lacy. nose of slightly musty malt, grain, sweet malt. flavor is sweet malt, a hint of mustiness, a touch of grain. medium bodied, clean finish. not very entertaining, but not a bitter disappointment.