Chesapeake Pale Ale
AleWerks Brewing Company in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.64
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SHIG (13887) reviewed Chesapeake Pale Ale from AleWerks Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft: Poured a copper orange with white head. Aroma is hops citrus. Taste a little piney and hoppy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a semi-cloudy slightly golden to bronze sort of color with a quarter finger’s worth of white foamy head. Mildly dissipated to leave some light stringy lace.
The aroma had a faint citrusy sweet pulpiness up front with a little bit of mango strolling underneath. Light malt body.
The flavor blended the hops to the malts fairly nice, sweet to bitter and almost coming together. It blended more in the aftertaste and definitely had a sturdy little blended hops to maltiness in the finish.
The feel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Good carbonation and the ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty decent APA that I could have again if I could get it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught @ Dulles Irport. Cloudy golden with small creamy white head, faint citrus peel aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter malty taste with some citrus and mango, smooth body, medium bitter finish. Smooth but not too remarkable
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Light citrus asks some hay. Golden pour with ok head and lacing. Light bitter finish. Easy drinking but not very exciting. Tap at Summerfest.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. pours clear pale amber, medium off-white head dissipates fairly quickly leaving decent lacing. Aroma is pine, dank citrus, spruce boughs. Flavor is light sweet and light bitter, pine, spruce, a bit of dankness, some citrus. Medium body. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
16oz pour clear gold with thin white head. Nose of honey, lemon, orange, soap. Flavor is malty, lemon, orange, grass. Medium bodied, dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draft. Hazy light amber color, medium white head. Aroma is fruity biscuits and fresh bread. Taste is fruity grass. Nice.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from a 12 oz bottle. Pours a cloudy gold with chunky sediment. Large bubbles in a short lived head. Sweet mild malt aroma. Some citrus notes and a very bitter finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
OK, I’m a Virginia virgin, this is my first beer from this state. My bottle was brown and contained 12 fl oz, there was a batch code but no Best Before Date I could find, is that normal? Anyway it was drank on 22nd April 2009 and poured into a ’La Chouffe’ stemmed tulip shaped glass (most likely the first time these two have ever met up). I liked the look of it, good deep amber body with a huge cream/tan head. The body wasn’t clear because I poured the lot in, sediment and all, the murky liquid promised hidden treasures of the hoppy kind, the head stayed, which was nice! You Virginia guys like hops in your Pale Ales, right? This had a good aroma of hops, not overpowering, but they did monopolize the smell, only letting a hint of yeast sneak out now and again. Again the hops took over within the taste, not much gets past the flavours imparted by those pesky hops, I tried to find other flavours, but failed. A sweetness in the fisrt instance makes way for a drier finish, but the hops win out over everything else throughout the drink. Good carbonisation, lively without too much fizz, although I did start to burp towards the end of the tasting. I enjoyed my venture into this state (beerwise)and may well return one day.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Not a good pale ale by any means, sweet and chunky and apple ciderish with a grainy, modestly bitter finish. The beer’s more of an English pale than anything, and somehow the alcohol is noticeable at 5.3%. Plus this brewery has some of the absolute worst packaging on the shelves.