Pike Pale Ale

Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Seattle, Washington USA

Pours a hazy copper color. Aroma of mild fruit with a sweet hint of caramel. Taste of bitter malt with mild sweetness. This beer is a mixture of a pale ale and a brown/amber ale. A but grassy in aftertaste. Overall an okay beer that I would drink again.

Bottle. Low nose, hazy amber, mellow mouthfeel medium to light body. Fruity base, ok hop balance. Easy drinkable, grassy aftertaste.

Pike Brewing Company--Pike Pale Heirloom Amber Ale--2006 Release--12 oz. Bottle--5.30% ABV--32 IBU’s. (4.0 / 5.0) Pale Ale--Nice lacy head. Clear bright thin rich amber color. Mellow malty floral hop front. Crisp malty mild sweet doughy caramel mild fruit citrus body. Crisp mild tangy hop spice thin citrus hint end. Balanced. Sampled 12/8/2006.

Beer pours an amber color with a minimal white head. Smell is sweet malt with a little bit of fruit. There is a little hoppyness in the aroma, but not enough to be able to pick out the kind of hops used. The taste is more malt, with no detectable hops. Really not a lot going on in the flavor department, simply caramel malt. Certainly a refreshing beer that is easy to drink, but it is a little watery. I wouldn’t seek this one out but it is not a bad beer.

Fresh hoppy aroma. Pretty standard for a northwest pale ale, boring maltyness underneath with some nice hop flavour. It’s also a little dry, seems to build up after a while

12 oz bottle from Bier Stein. Pours a medium brown with a small tan head and not much in the way of lacing. Aroma of yeast, caramel, citrus hops all muddled up together. Flavor hits all the same notes, but it’s hard to discern them from each other. Pretty much a hot mess this beer is.

Poured dark reddish amber, toasted caramel malts, nutty, little earthy hops, dry finish.

Medium body, with a deeper color. This beer was a bit sour. Perhaps it was aged too long.