CAP Endless Vacation Pale Ale

330mL bottle BBE: 13.04.17. Chilled to around 8 degrees. Served in a tulip glass. Very cloudy orange-amber body with considerable fine yeast sediment and a large, billowing, fawn head that settles down to moderate with full coverage. Low intensity staled hop/spoiled milk aroma, with sherbet lemon, grapefruit and lavender. The taste begins faintly sweet before a medium bitterness takes over. The palate is medium-bodied with a bit of a flabby texture, medium carbonation and a pithy, bitter finish. Overall it looks great and definitely goes down easy, but leaves very little lasting impression. Perhaps a harsh score for a beer that’s past its best and maybe served too cold. Deserves another chance to be reviewed fresh.

Bottle from Beer52. Copper, huge white head. Rather thin with a lot of prickly fizz. Orange aroma, then a peach, light caramel and mineral taste. So-so APA.

Pours copper with a big foamy head that just keeps growing and makes it a pain to pour. Aroma is sweet and smells of oranges. Over carbonated. Bit spicy from the small bits of beer that don’t froth in the mouth. Poor.

Pours a slight hazy amber with a large frothy head that just keeps growing. Very lively. Aroma of malts and orange. Flavour is slightly sweet with come citrus notes. Nothing noteworthy here and an average beer at best.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2016 Pours clear copper. Aroma is slightly hoppy, pine. Taste is balanced. Hops and slightly roasted malts.

Deep brass colour with a huge, creamy head. Aroma is toasted malts and pear. Taste is lightly toasted. Super smooth texture.

33cl bottle from Beer52.com. Quite a lively pour to start with but soon settling back to a hazy amber body with a tight cream head; soft berry fruit aroma; and a sweet berry fruit taste with a fizz in the mouth and a solid malty body; than a jammy finish with a woody bitterness and some warmth. Rather good.

Lätt disig bärnstensfärgad öl med ett lättare smutsvitt skum. Doft av tropisk frukt och grapefrukt. Samma i smaken.

CAP Endless Vacation Pale Ale 5% Apparently, in Japan this is limited to Isetan in terms of availability. It is a matte copper color with a supremely massive head of foam that lasts. The aroma is nice giving you sweet ripe tangerines. The taste is a very earthy pine, kind of dirt like with an orange sweetness in the finish. Alright but possibly heat damaged, it seems muted.

Bottled from order by bottle section at Systembolaget, sampled on March 9, 2016.
Clear deep amber to copper color, off-white head. Resin, canned pineapple, light rubbery phenolic scent. Bitter, resin, light perfume, slight floral, hints of phenoles taste. Light bread, bitter aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.