Yards Philadelphia Pale Ale

Brewed by Yards Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

Very drinkable pub pull beer. like the hoppy grapefruity smooth bitter. good beer for keeping you going. Not a beer to drink and to focus on, but good for just drinkin at a bar or party with good folks.

One of a 24 pk assortment picked up from a trip to philly. A slow pour yielded a big creamy head-aroma is very sweet of fresh hops and some malt with a grapefruit background. More on the refreshing side but if thats what youre looking for, its a great example of the style.

Strange lack of head at all, somewhat weak flavor but strangely refreshing. Not a strong flavor.

on tap (keg) served up for FREE to racers at the Wissahickon Cyclo-Cross race in Ludwig’s Corner PA!! Yards is punk rock! I had this instead of doing a "cool down" after I finished racing. dark golden ochre color, clear. thin foamy off-white quick head. aroma is floral earthy hops. flavor is honeyish nutty malt but stronger earthy hops. a little bitter greens flavor. thanks Yards!

12 oz bottle. Pours a hazy gold with virtually no head at all. Weak citrus and floral aroma. Solid grapefruity flavor dominates early but a bit thin and lacking body. Aftertaste is amazingly bitter for a beer that seemed so watery. I’d drink it again though.

12 oz bottle-pours a creamy white head. Color is yellow/gold. Aroma is hops with a hint of grain. Taste is tangy, grapefruit, mild carbonation. Nice, refreshing.

Better than the Saison I tried, but still rather boring. Decent hopping and balance made this ale very drinkable, but at 4.3% it should be, right?

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with hopdog, thanks Steve!) Out of the bottle, this beer is off-white in color and very fluffy and bubbly. Exactly! A glass filled with head. After several minutes, I now have enough liquid to see that it’s dark straw in color, slightly hazy, with an army of carbonation bubbles rushing into battle. The beer has a sweet, fruity, hoppy nose, some orange citrus, but aromas of must and rotting vegetables detract, and there’s no discernable maltiness. The flavor is lightly sweet, mildly hoppy, bitter and citrusy, but somewhat sour, and like the nose, without much discernable maltiness. Fairly light bodied, fairly clean, obviously extremely carbonated on the palate, being very expansive on the first several sips. Even after the carbonation bubbles chill out, head retention is pretty nice, and there’s a fair amount of patchy foam stuck to the glass, though it’s too thick to be called lace. Probably just a routine pale ale, but the slight problems knock this down a notch.