Pre-Game Session Ale
The Unknown Brewing Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.03
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Clear gold bod med wht head. Citrus floral arma. Citrus floral toasty flav. Med light bod mod carb. 7/3/7/3/14 3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can from Harris Teeter, Hampstead, North Carolina. Hazy amber with an extremely thin head. Has a light fruitiness, but ordinary session pale ale as its label suggests.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Grassy hop nose with a slight sweetness. Cereal malts with a little straw, brisk bitter finish. Eh.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Can. Plain old beery smell, pretty fresh on the nose. Somewhat cloudy yellow with a big rocky white head. Good carbonation, cutting at times. Taste is on par with a cheap pale lager. Perhaps some hints of wheat beer in there. Yes, now I think its somewhat like a cross between mild hefe and a wheat ale. Grows on ya. Now that I’m at the bottom of the can, there are particles floating in it.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft at source - pours yellow white head - nose/taste of citrus, lemon and bread - medium body
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
From a 12 oz can. Pours a clear gold with a thin off white head. Bready nose. Flavors of grain with very muted hop characteristics.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12oz can from a small store in Moyock, pours a murky orange with some frothy, white head. Nose has dough, yeast, lemon, light soap, biscuit. Flavor is very biscuity, a little buttery, soap, lemon, dough, cracker. Crisp finish. Not an APA, more a cream ale, but an easy drinker.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Keg at the Bier Garden, Asheville, 17/02/15. Very lightly hazed golden orange with a moderate off white covering. Nose is caramel malt, citric peel, light straw. Taste comprises bitter orange, lemon rind, straw, bready. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Sub par for style, blandometer rising through amber.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Crowler thanks to Nathan. Pours a clear orange gold with small off white head that lasts. The aroma is earth and grass. Medium mouth, straw, wheat, light citrus, decent lager.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
12 oz. can. Pilsner glass No date coding found on the can. No response from email to Unknown Brewing regarding date codes. A: Not much head atop dark gold/light orange body. Hazy. Not much visible carbonation S: The slightest whiff of orange pith and flesh. Some toasted bread as well. Light smell overall, and more like a pale ale. T: Malty upfront with some sharp hop bitterness. Not altogether citrusy and certainly not piney. Again, not much like an IPA. Unremarkable. M: Light but not watery. More carbonation than is visible. O: OK session ale but I’ve had several lately that are much better IMO. Probably won’t buy this again.