Pale Ale

Where was I when the Maine Beer Co. out of Freeport Maine starting distributing their beer in to their Carolinas, well I found a tiny beautiful thing, 5.5% at my local Whole Foods. This American Pale Ale pours a golden color with a two and a quarter white head that gives you fruity aromas with a nice juicy hop note and touches of an earth note with a nice juicy fruit taste and nice smooth hoppy earth notes hitting your taste buds with a nice hoppy sweet finish and a juicy semi-dry aftertaste with a mild medium mouthfeel. This beer is what I like in a Pale Ale, fruitiness with a bit of hoppy notes and not in-your-face bitterness, a tiny beautiful thing Pale Ale is an A. Solid beer and well brewed and one that I recommend trying and I will have this again. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

I haven’t had a beer from Abita Brewing Co. out of New Orleans Loiusiana in quite a while but I found a new beer from Abita Brewing Co. Hop-On Juicy Pale, 6.0% ABV a Pale Ale brewed with Cascade, Citra, and Ekuanot hops and pours a hazy yellow with a two finger white head with aromas of juicy citrus fruits with hoppiness hitting the nose as well that all lead into a juicy fruit taste of light orange faint pineapple and good amounts of grapefruit with a bitter smooth flavor on the back of the tongue with a smooth finish and a light bitter aftertaste with a meduim mouthfeel. This beer is a good pale ale that goes down easy and gets a B+. Abita Brewing Co. Hop-On Juicy Pale is fruity without being overly bitter or too harsh. I recommend Abita Brewing Co. Hop-On Juicy Pale. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!   

Orginally posted on July 14th, 2012.

Yes my favorite brewery has been hard at work and here is a NEW brew RPA, no not Rye Pale Ale, this is Rein Pale ale, 5.2% ABV. This is a cross between an American pale ale and a German-style lager ale. OMB brews this with a combination of four different American and German barley malt varieties, spicy American Tettnag and noble Czech Saaz hop. This OMB pours a beautiful light amber color with a thin-ish white head. You can really smell the Hop scent here on this with a nice grassy note. Smells just like a fresh hop field. Nice! This RPA has a moderately bitter taste about it. Not to much bitterness, just the right amount to make it great. Great for most any occasion. There is a very very faint spicy note on the finish along with a still moderate bitterness that finishes light and crisp. This beer is a good NEW brew for OMB and they have done it yet again, in making an awesome and tasty beer. I love this brewery and can not say enough good things about them. This RPA is part of a small growing trend of hoppy/bitter beers that have been hitting the market recently, after the height of IPA crazy hit, which is now not so popular as it once was. Now the trend is more toward less hop and more bitterness but too much bitter and it sour which is the next trend I think. But this hit the trend make well with its hybrid American pale ale and German lager ale. Great beer. Just the right amount of bitter in this one. Not too much, yet not to little. Good work OMB! Keep it up. I would by this again, have it over and over again, just like all the beers they brew. I love a good tasty OMB brew! Cheers! Please drink responsibly!

Knee Deep Brewing Co. N/E Auburn Pale Ale, 4.5% ABV and 42 IBU is one beer I received from a recent Brewpublik delivery. Thanks to Brewpublik for this beer. Knee Deep Brewing Co. in Auburn, Place Country California brew this N/E Auburn Pale Ale witch pours a golden color with a small one finger head white head that fizzes away into a very thin halo with citrusy, earthy pine, hoppy aroma notes on the nose. I got a little grapefruit and some slight orange on the nose that led me to a citrus fruit flavor that was a bit juicy and slightly piney with earthy hop notes towards the back of the mouth, with a nice bitter fruity finish  and a nice hoppy earthy aftertaste that linger with a faint fruited noted on your taste buds with a light mouthfeel. N/E Auburn Pale Ale has a drinkable flavor and ABV, it does go down with a refreshing ease. I give Knee Deep Brewing Co. N/E Auburn Pale Ale a B+ this is a solid sessionable Pale Ale that’s not overpowering to your taste buds nor is the opposite either. I would recommend this to anyone and I would go right back for more of this Knee Deep Brewing Co. N/E Auburn Pale Ale. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

I received this Nebraska Brewing Company Cardinal Pale Ale, 6.0% ABV from Brewpublik recently. This beer is interesting, well the can is because it has an unconventional way of opening. You open it like a canned food, the whole top opens and it becomes a glass. Cardinal Pale Ale from Nebraska Brewing Compay in La Vista Nebraska pours a deep golden orange with a one and a half finger white head that dissipates at a steady pace with aroma of oranges with some slight malty grapefruit and other citrus aromas that guides you to a slight malty orange, grapefruit, and citrus flavor with a slight bitter-sweetness that grows a bit stronger on the back of the mouth, with a nice citrus finish and a malty citrus and a slight yet faint bitter note all with a medium mouthfeel. Cardinal Pale Ale is surprisingly good beer and one that grows on you. I could see myself having a few of these. The flavor goes a long way on this beer. I give Nebraska Brewing Company Cardinal Pale Ale an A-. This beer is good from start to finish and is one I recommend trying. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!