Wasatch Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Schirf Brewing Company/Wasatch Brew Pub
Style: English Pale Ale
Park City, Utah USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Deeply golden hazen bronze color with a medium ivory cap that took a good while to fade and leaves some stringy lacing. Aroma is quite nice, great hop nose for a pale, freshly citric with lemon and orange with a nice grassy tone added within mixing under a crispy crusted semi-sweet malt backing. Taste is right on for any pale, straight up west coast style with a higher hop tone and bite then most, fresh, crisp, citric, grassy, bits of pineyness, good malting adds just enough sweetener for it, keeping a desent balance, although the top has got quite a nice hop bite, which I liked. Feel is about medium, with a nice hop bittering tone over the top, mixing well til the finish where it does linger some and favors more sips. Overall drying with toasty breads, hop grasses, and citric sours. A nice drinkin’ pale.

Poured from a bottle with a sticker that read 989426 ’Unlawful to Remove’, I torn it right off! :) THe pour is nice, a medium amber with a pretty light head that didn’t really last. Perfectly clear. Smell is very good, full of hops. Taste is the much of the same, hops, with a slight pine finish. Very good brew, and a solid, easy drinker.

Good beer. Citrus aromas and flavor. Typical American hops used (probably the three C’s. Does not last long in the glass. Decent though. Much respect to the recipe. Pine taste and semi harsh mouth feel. (Which is pleasant when your in Park City).

From a twist-off 12 oz. bottle, no freshness date, sampled in a pint glass. Poured an reddish orange copper with a small foamy white head that settled into a thin sudsy lacing. Cascade hops are the first thing I noticed in the smell, citrus, pine and sweet flowery, it is quite easy to tell that this has been dry hopped, a light toasted graininess. Steady moderate carbonation and a slickly smooth medium bodied mouthfeel, refreshing taste, toasted grains and pale malt sugary, a smooth, soft, rolling hop bitterness in the palate, pine oily and citrus zesty with a touch of rind, a dry hoppy, toasted malt finish, leaving a nice lingering sour hop, sweet malty aftertaste. One of easiest drinking APA’s I’ve encountered, an excellent example of the style.

Bottle.brought back from Utah. One of the big beers (over 3.2%) from Utah. The taste is sweet and malty balanced with a sweet sticky hoppiness. Medium body and taste leaves you wanting more.

Bottle: Pale gold color, thick white head, awesome lacing. The nose is very clean and fresh and hoppy, light sweet malts and a nice herbal character. The flavor is good, lightly hoppy, clean malts. Solid body. Could use a bit more umph but overall it’s pretty good. Nice.

Very solid all-around APA. Poured a perfectly clear copper. Heavy carbonation bubbles. Not much of a head--just a rotating film on top. Nose is very subdued. Mostly just some slight whiffs of malts. Flavor is a true PA. Not overly malty or overly hoppy. Solid balance between the two major ingredients. Hops are a tad sprucey but do not linger on the palate. Some nice tannin flavors too that also come through in the flavor. Medium body but perhaps a bit too carbonated. This beer got me burping. Nice beer.

Poured a deep, hazy golden bronze color with a medium ivory head. The nose was of lemon and orange esters with a sweet malty backbone The taste started with crisp, citric and piney hops. Toffee and fruit-like malts come next balancing nicely with the hops. The finish leaves me with toasty biscut and a nice hop bite. Mouthfeel is moderate to thin. This is a damn good APA. Definatly worth a try