Pilot Mountain Pale Ale
Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.22
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Named for one of western North Carolina’s iconic landmarks. A classic American style Pale Ale brewed with British Pale and Caramel Malts, and aggressively hopped with Cascade for superior aroma and flavor. In name and in taste, a landmark beer.
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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Just an average pale ale. Gold in color with a medium head. Aroma is a hoppy aroma but kind of weak. Taste was grass, grains and citrusy pine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 05:13
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Sampled on draft this beer poured a dark amber color with a medium sized foamy white head that left decent lacing. The aroma was earthy and piney. The flavor was sweetish and bitter with earthiness and pine. Long earthy finish. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jul 2019
at 16:28
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle: Slightly hazed, slightly orange, gold with a tight, off-white head. Orange, grain malt scent. Taste is sweet, orange malt, fruit, light caramel malt. Not bad....pretty easy drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2017
at 15:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pine, grapefruit peel, lemon, and biscuit malt aroma. Slightly hazy golden yellow with large light tan head. Mildly sweet citrus, biscuit malt, and moderately bitter pine/grapefruit peel flavor. Body a bit light. Okay, but not great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2017
at 18:30
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Harris Teeter, Hampstead, North Carolina. Deep amber pale ale style beer with a small head. Has a fair strength with good tropical fruits behind this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2017
at 08:05
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is grapefruity, citrusy. Crisp grapefruity hoppy. Slight sweetness. Bitter, crisp fruity. Mellow fruity far finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Apr 2017
at 13:24
3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2
Bot. We got to restyle this. From the start its ipa, no bones about it. I thought I smelled some dull hops in there but after the taste nothing else is apparent but its big ipa thud. So bitter, such impact. Terribly on style for an ipa and I think I had impy ipas that had this impact. Vixen viscous thick mouth coating flavors all round, whewwie. Gimmie a cheap lager to rinse my mouth. Cleansing agent please!! Not impressed.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2016
at 14:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap. Pours clear orange Amber, medium off white head, decent lacing. Aroma is line, grapefruit, orange. Flavor is light plus sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body. Not bad
Tried
from Draft
on 26 May 2016
at 13:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
4 oz pour on draft at ChurchKey to celebrate Eric’s last night behind the bar. Clear amber with off-white head. Aromas of citrus, floral notes, toast, biscuit. Tastes of grapefruit citrus, floral notes. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Feb 2016
at 21:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Revisiting this beer. Bottle dated 2/7/2016 so about 9 weeks old. Into a chalice. A: Pours a mostly clear orange gold 1" craggy beige head retaining and lacing well. S: Grapefruit pith and pine. A hint of sweet orange and caramel barely there. Light overall. T: Citrus pith with a small hint of the orange or grapefruit flesh. Backed with a pretty bracing pine bite. Any malted barley is lost. M: Kind of thin with a tingly carbonation. Bitter resinous short finish. O: Had high hopes for this but I’m not bowled over. Pretty nice pale ale but not terribly noteworthy. Glad I re-rated it though, because I do like it more now than last year.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2015
at 21:48