The Kernel Pale Ale Centennial / Chinook

Brewed by The Kernel
Style: American Pale Ale
London, England

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Backlog rate. Excellent balanced pale. Cereal/bread malt base with strong citrus, peach and mango flavours.

0.33l bottle shared with The Tasting Crew. This is a cloudy golden-murky-yellow one with a nice medium sized and lacing off-white top. Some hoppy fruitiness on the aroma, definitely not extreme. I get tones of tropical fruits, menthol, peaches and perhaps some pineapple. Yeah, I can like that. It’s average and sharp on the carbonation with a nice oily mouthfeel. More sharp and hoppy in the taste also. Clear apricots and peaches with hints of bitter citrus-zest and some flour from the yeast. Really tasty for a pale this! 18.10.2012

Bottle, shared with BBGTC. My first Kernel beer! :-) Anticipations are sky-high considering all the hype these Britbrewers have been getting - let’s see if they deliver. Pours a light honey-hued orange body with a big, creamy white head. Aroma is grass, apricot, pine, hints of fruity syrup notes and pineapple. Very inviting. Taste is citric peel-like fruity bitterness up front, mellow caramel,pine and hints of wet grass. Full body, medium carbonation. A nice beer, and most notably very drinkable despite not actually being that extraordinary. A very drinkable and balanced IPA.

Cloudy, golden and a big fluffy white head. Some peach, pine and grapefruit. Taste has some citrus and bitterness like orangepeel. nice mouth feel and very drinkable

Bottled. A golden beer with a massive whitish bubbly head. Massive carbonation with millions of bubbles cascading up the drink. Good sharp chinook bitterness in the mouth with some balancing Centennial orangey flavours. Good pale malts. Nice citrus aromas but perhaps a bit too subdued. Tasty but painfully fizzzy.

5.2%, 330ml bottle at Brewdog Bar Aberdeen. It pours light orange-gold, with a thin bubbly white head. The nose is tangerine, sweet orange, mango, tinned peach and light pine. The taste is pine, resin, orange pith, light tangerine, leather, hay, and straw, with a big dry finish. Light to medium body and moderate carbonation. The taste doesn’t quite live up to the nose. An easy drinking pale ale.

4.8% ABV bottle, beermerchants.com. Very pungent fresh hop aroma, to this golden beer. Sharp, but not spicy, very soft palate and exceptionally easy to drink. Flavours of caramel and faint wood, some antiseptic, but very faint. Short finish, with some bite late on, a little bit buttery, low citrus.

Bottle @ JohnMurdoch. Hazy light golden colour, white head. Nose is massive grapefruit and peach. Flavour is very hoppy, juicy, grapefruit, peach. Fairly hoppy and bitter finish. Excellent.

UPDATED: JUL 19, 2011
Bottle 500ml. @ PBF 2011

ABV: 4.8%. Light unclear medium orange yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, hay - grass, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, grass - hay. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110702]
7-3-7-3-15

Bottle 500ml. @ ChrisOs.

ABV: 5.5%. Unclear hazy medium orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, overriped orange, mandarin, hay - grass, grapefruit notes. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101204]
7-3-7-3-15

Bottle from The Kernel brewery. Bought on a memorable day there. Murky brown gold with off white head. Fruity hop aroma with malt background. Well balanced. Tasty, mellow and drinkable.