Pipe Organ Pale Ale
Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.07
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle-offwhite-gold. A-pine, 2nd sweet lt malt. T-crisp pine/lemon hops with some bite, 2nd sweet lt malt-caramel.
Drake (22934) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear copper color with a medium sized off-white head. Decent head retention. Aroma of citrus hops and caramel malts. The taste is citrus hops and toasted malts. Thin-medium bodied, decent balance. Fairly straightforward.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Lithy for this one. Clear gold with a tall, long lasting off-white head. Fruity aroma with some earthy hops at the back. Nicley balanced flavor with a dry finish. Good Pale Ale.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
On cask at the brewpub. Now here’s a beer. From the cask it took several minutes to settle into a transparent orange with a very thick, creamy white head. The cask my beer was poured from had been dry hopped with Amarillo pellets. As a result a wonderful nose was detectable from 3 feet away. Floral, honey, citrus, white grape, malt, yeast, lemon candy. Flavor was a little weaker than I would have liked, sweet, light bitterness, bread, honey, lemon. Very creamy in the mouth, but not major lasting bitterness. A session beer done right.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Courtesy of treyrab. Pours brilliant clear copper with thin white head. The aroma is malty with a hint of biscuit malts and earthy hops. The flavor at first tastes a tad oxidized. But then I quickly realize it is just a well rounded earthy hop note. Sweet malts, crystal malts and biscuit malts caress the earthy to spicy hops to midway. As the finish approaches the hops grow in bitterness as the malts slowly grow in roastiness with the addition of biscuit and a dash of chocolate malts into the after taste. Nice tasting brew.
maniac (11822) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 17 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle on 11/30/2008 at the 3rd Annual Richmond Industry Gathering. Clear golden amber body with a small off-white head. Sweet caramel and light fruit aroma. Light caramel and fruit flavor. Medium light body with moderately high carbonation
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Pours copper/orange, white head. Aroma, yeasty, hoppy. Taste, reminded me a lot of Freaktoberfest, has this sirupy, medicinal taste almost like grenadine. Fruity with some citrus / grapefruit, and a strong hoppy aftertaste. Bitter finish, almost too much.
GRM (7524) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Brown bottle, 12 ounces, gift from Marc Gratton, savoured on November 2 2007; eye: golden, clear, slight effervescence, almond head made up of rather large bubbles, no lacing; nose: quite malty, fruity, light chlorinated pool water; mouth: malty, fruity, hint of hops, finale in malt, fruity and light hops that is rapidly replaced by an unpleasant spiciness, mildly bitter, medium body, slick, rather carbonated; overall: once is enough FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 12 onces, cadeau de Marc Gratton, savourée le 2 novembre 2007; œil : dorée, claire, très légère effervescence, mousse amande formée de bulles plutôt grosses, pas de dentelle; nez ; très malté, fruitée, léger eau de piscine chlorée; bouche : maltée, fruitée, pointe de houblon, finale en malt, fruitée et léger houblon très rapidement remplacé par un piquant plutôt déplaisant, moyennement amère, corps moyen, coulante, plutôt carbonatée; en résumé : une fois c’est suffisant
cheap (9533) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
New rating: This was a big surprize, I found this recent bottle sample very refreshing...lemony, fizzy and fun, very refreshing, one of the better english pale ales I’ve had, quite yummy overall, I wonder what they did to the recipe? Old rating - years ago: On tap at the Works. This is one of their more famous brews. Very little aroma and slightly darker that a ubiquitous pale yellow american lager beer. Small witish head. This beer comes on with an odd and interesting earthly flavoe that is absent from other English Pale Ales I’ve had. This rather intense earthly note is also absent from the cask conditioned version of this brew. Little carbonation. Taste is pale ale-ish but not overwhelming in the hop arena. Not as strong as pale ale. Finish is medium low bitterness that hangs for a while. Probably one of the more bitter brews that I have sampled from the Works. Much better than Saranac Pale Ale and almost on par with Brooklyn Ale. Great Divide Ridgeline is much more fizzy that this.
Earlier Rating: 6/3/2007 Total Score: 1.9
Cask Condidtioned Rating: Served on tap from cask pump at the Brew Works along side the regular Pipe Organ Pale Ale. The barmaid was pretty excited about me getting to try this, must have been rare for them to have a cask conditioned brew. This is just slightly darker than the regular Pipe Organ Pale Ale. This brew is served warm. Very weak floral aroma. No carbonation. Mildly hoppy and not quite as hoppy offensive as I expected for a pale ale. Typical slightly bitter finish on the back of the throat but it is generally well mannered. Finish is medium length and fades after a while. Not bad, glad I had a chance to try this special beer. If you are a fan of the regular Pipe Organ Pale, you better go check this limited release out before it is gone.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Pipe Organ Pale Ale from Church Brew Works 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Sample at the brewpub. Light gold/amber color with a weak ivory head and very little lacing. Aroma of earthy malt and hops. Fairly light body, with a bland floral hops flavor and not much else. The finish is lightly bitter hops with a touch of citrus in the aftertaste. This brew doesn’t really have much going for it.