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Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale 3.39 536

Smuttynose Shoals Pale Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
5363.4/5.03.39/5.05%97.7English pint, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Copper-colored ale is medium-bodied and highly hopped. Its flavor is delightfully complex: tangy fruit at the start, with an assertive hop crispness and a long malty palate that one well-known beer writer has compared to the flavor of freshly-baked bread.
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 NJJereme (272), Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Apr 29, 2009  
12 oz. bottle. Pours a nice copper color with a light white head. Pretty decent balance b/w the malts and hops w/ an edge to the hops but not as heavy as an IPA. Slight citrus fragrance. Light to medium bodied.


 Palidor19 (1798), Brandon, Florida, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Apr 29, 2009  
the water in this beer is kinda bland and watery. the hops are strong with a grass and pine flavor. the bitterness sticks with you all the way.


 nick76 (2695), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
Apr 29, 2009  
The aroma is hoppy, yeasty, and malty as well as nutty, earthy and toasted. It has an ESB-ish quality. The appearance is amber with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma with a well balanced toast, caramel, and grass finish. The palate is smooth. Overall a really nice beer.


 smcolw (389), Wayland, Massachusetts, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/57/103/515/20
Apr 11, 2009  
The aroma is an excellent blend of malt and hop. The hop is floral and inviting. The malt is sweet and "round". Very inviting! Coudy, dark copper color with a slightly yellow-white head that has excellent retention and lace. Darker malt (crystal) in flavor is the initial taste. This is followed by a strong bitterness that intensifies after the swallow. The beer is thick; coats the palate. I’m only a tad bit let down after the aroma, but that may be because it held awesome promise. This is a very good, delicious pale ale. I’d love to smell the brewery.


 sigma23 (240), , Maine, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Apr 10, 2009  
pours rally dark copper/brown. no real head. aroma is floral hops with a resounding sweet malt. drinks with a nice bitterness from resonous hops. smooths out and finishes nice and sweet with a strong malt back bone. after taste lingers aprox. 5 min of bitter sweet.


 Derek881 (502), Frederick, Maryland, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 9, 2009  
Poured from the bottle into a pint glass for drinking. The beer had an amber-copper color with a smaller off-white head that has short retention and cling. It had a rich, crisp citrus hop aroma with some floral notes and a bit of grain. The beer had a heavily bitter-sour hop flavor with some grain and citrus flavors. Its body was slightly thin with a lot of fizz and life, and it was a very dry beer. A quality beer, but a bit too dry and intense in bitterness.


 jvmiller (532), Bel Air, Maryland, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Apr 3, 2009  
Not too bad, has a nice sharp bitterness. Very crisp hops, easy to drink, what I like in a Pale Ale. Hops not too strong, balanced well with malt.


 brewski519 (439), Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Apr 2, 2009  
Pours a nice amber color, with a very nice thick, creamy head and a ton of lacing. Aroma of malt, spice, bread and little citrus - taste was more malty and nutty than the citrus I expected. The citrus definitely isn’t as prominent in this English Pale Ale and it typically is in the American Pale Ale - this is a great beer that I could have drank all night... I forgot how much I like this one



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