Rubicon Monkey Knife Fight Pale Ale

Brewed by Rubicon Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Sacramento, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Full bodied flavor with citrus hops and malt. Color between honey and amber and easy to drink.

Clear amber colour with a small head. Crisp aroma, slight fizz and caramel aftertaste. (K)

Off the tap at the brew pub. Thin head with medium straw colored body. The aroma is great: grapefruit and lemon. The taste is smooth with a good dose of malt and moderate bitterness. The texture is crisper with moderate carbonation and medium body. It’s a nice, easy drinking ale and flavorful.

On tap at beerfest. Has an amber color with a slight bitterness some sweetness. Nothing great

Sample at the brewpub. This beer pours a pale amber color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily. Short strings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus and hops. Light-bodied and crisp with a mildly bitter hops character with citrus and malt notes. The finish is short with a lightly bitter fruity hops aftertaste. Decent overall.

Growler shared by Dave on the party bus
Appearance: Clear golden with a medium sized white head
Aroma: Pale malts and citrus
Taste: Pale malts, dusty caramel and citrus/lemon
Nice mellow beer to break up the other big beers that were being passed around.

Now, this was a nice 10am beer! Pours a clear copper color with a large white head. A sweet citrus nose with oranges and lemons. Lots of people noted that the flavor was sweaty or you might say salty, lemons and citrus, quite smooth. Grainy at times. Good.

Tap. Pours clear dark gold with a medium, frothy white head, short retention with spare lacing. Aroma is fruity esters, floral, pine, and citrus hops with biscuit malt. Flavor is medium hops and bitterness, light malt and moderate fruity esters and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation.

Tap. Pours a hazy orange amber with a small beige-orange head and some lacing. Aroma is orange citrus and grass. Flavor is medium sweet toffee and bread, with some citrus and grass. Light bitter finish. Unexciting.

The beer is almost amber in color with a white head. Mild grass aroma followed by citrus peel and floral hops. A strong toffee and toasted bread smell to it as well. Just decent on the nose, sort of bland. The flavor is somewhat sweet, but still a bit bland. Light hop flavors of citrus peel, grass and pine. A light bitterness on the finish.