American Pale
Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Collab with: Oakham AlesPale Ale - American Style / APA Special
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Score
7.17
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Oakham Ales have a stellar reputation for brewing excellence and are a firm favourite of the brewery team here, making them a natural partner for this collaboration. Together we’ve brewed a standout American Pale Ale, fermented on our Union set. Using the finest Maris Otter malt as a base, we’ve used a classic combination of the best US hops to give bold flavours of zesty citrus, fresh pine and a touch of tropical fruit.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample, thanks oh6gdx! Clear pale amber, mid sized head. Aroma of grapefruit, starfruit and lychee. Mid dry with light body and crisp, rounded mouthfeel. Cookie malt, gooseberries and tangerine. Marked bitter finish.Refreshing. Classy.
Tried
on 06 May 2026
at 20:31
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
EB - Bottle 500ml. @ [ Petalax 🇫🇮 💻👀 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏠🇩🇰 🍀 ☁️☂️ [ As Thornbridge / Oakham Ales American Pale ]. ABV: 5.2%. [20260309]. 6-/3-/6-/3/13
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2026
at 16:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
50cl bottle. Vaasa tasting.
Poured clear golden in color. Citrusy hops, light malts, clean and very drinkable pale ale.
Poured clear golden in color. Citrusy hops, light malts, clean and very drinkable pale ale.
Tried
on 07 Feb 2026
at 21:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Slightly hazy golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is floral, some fruity tones with mild earthy tones. Flavour is floral, some toffeeish and mild citrusy tones with a bit earthy elements.
Tried
from Bottle
from Alko (Webshop)
on 07 Feb 2026
at 21:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy orange-amber colour, small white head and alce. Biquity malts, fruits, citrusfruit in the nose. Light-bodied. Bitter hops, fruityness, citrus in the flavour. Typical Thornbridge flavours.
Tried
from Bottle
from
K-Supermarket (Kampus)
on 01 Jan 2026
at 18:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle from Mitchell Wines Meadowhead - cloudy orange with a firm white head. Piney, bit of grapefruit, grassiness and pithy finish. A bit meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2025
at 19:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
A golden beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has fruitness, some fructose and pine. Taste has grapefruit, pine, some grass, medium bitterness. Medium bodied. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
from
K-Citymarket (Turku Kupittaa)
on 06 Nov 2025
at 10:43
6.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask at the Southampton Arms, London on 21st October 2025. Deep amber with shallow off-white foam and full lacing. Nutty malts and pungent earthiness in aroma. Grapefruit notes, citrus peels and spices in-mouth on a good malt. Finish blends maltiness with bitterness. Full bodied with a smooth mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
at
Southampton Arms
on 21 Oct 2025
at 16:47
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Had this 15th October 2025 in the company of Jude at Hereford Beer House, Hereford. Pours hazy warm gold/light amber with excellent mid/large foamy head. Quite crisp, fresh, clean, nice fruity bite and a great bitterness. This is a very more'ish' beer, I loved it immediately and wished I'd of picked some up from Thornbridge the other day
Tried
from Bottle
from
Hereford Beer House
on 15 Oct 2025
at 14:15
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Mitchell’s Wines. Soft haze on a pale-ish gold. Slim dense lasting white foam. Nose has the Union kit yeasty esters behind peachy orange hop and clean dry bready malts. Taste is light fruity bitterness with a light sweetness. Clean and fairly dry on the palate. Decent bitterness to finish. Class pow wow.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2025
at 17:46