12 oz bottle from the Shiner Family Reunion variety sixer bought at WinCo in CDA, ID. Aroma is extremely bland for style. I think I smell floral notes, Pixie Stix. Pours hazy orange with a long-sustaining cream-colored head that laces a little bit. Taste is much better than the aroma, imparting a candy sweetness with faint bitterness in the finish. It’s all floral as far as the hops go. Creamy mouthfeel, medium-bodied. Easy drinking simple APA.

Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Earth and light citrus aroma with caramel. Citrus and caramel flavor. Medium bodied. Citrus and caramel linger.

Nice fruity, citrusy, hoppy aroma, and it goes downhill from there. Amber in color with small off white head. Taste is caramel, fruit and some tingly hops. Mouthfeel is slick, but no aftertaste. This is better than rated, but could be better.

(tap) clear orange/amber colour with a small tan head; faint aroma of fruit; lightly acidic crisp flavour; it has none of the pale ale character, tastes more like a light fruit beer

Pours slightly hazy copper color with cream colored head. Aromas of toasted malt and wih some pine. Similar flavors. Medium body with average carbonation.

Bottle, 12oz. It’s a clear, amber beer topped by a dense, fingerthick light beige head. Quite sparkling, and leaving lacings. It’s quite malty on the nose, caramel, bread and some faint coffee hints, as well as pine cones and some grass and citrus. There’s not much sweetness in the flavor, but it’s malt dominated anyway. Bread, caramel, pine cones and some citrus peel, and a decent bitterness. Medium body, a bit too carbonated for my likings. Some metallic hints show up in the else malty and lightly bitter finish. Not so very pale this one, too malty, but it goes down. 130830

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, no bottle dating. Slow gusher upon opening. Pours lightly hazy orange amber color with a 1-2 finger dense cream colored head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass. Aromas of orange zest, pear, apple, caramel, bread, floral, grass, slight pine, light pepper, and light floral earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of malt and hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of orange zest, pear, apple, caramel, bread, floral, grass, light pine, light pepper, and floral earthiness. Light floral bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of citrus, light fruits, caramel, bread, floral, grass, light pepper, light pine, and floral earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Good balance of malt and hop flavors; with no cloying flavors after the finish. A little lacking in flavor robustness. Medium carbonation and body; with a lightly creamy and fairly crisp mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is well hidden with only a slight warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a pretty solid pale ale. Quite pleasant in flavor and balance, but lacking in some aspects. An enjoyable offering.

Not a half bad pale ale. Clean caramel malts, medium body and plenty of citrus and floral hopping in the nose and flavors.