Loftus
Track Brewing Co. in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England 🏴
Collab with: Bale Breaker Brewing CompanyPale Ale - American Style / APA Series
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Score
7.07
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The first collaboration in our CULTIVATE series, exploring beer as a product of agriculture, is brewed with Bale Breaker Brewing Company. They’re a brewery from Yakima, Washington, based on their fourth-generation hop farm, Loftus Ranches. Owner/Brewmaster Kevin came to visit us and together we have brewed a crisp, dry and modern West Coast Pale Ale using Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, Krush and Idaho 7, all grown at Loftus. A stripped-back, simple malt base and clean yeast profile allows the heavy hop charge to shine; a symphony of citrus and tropical delights with a bassline of berry, peach and pine.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
440ml can. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of grapefruit, peach, pine. Taste of grapefruit, orange, piney resin, quite peachy, ripe berries, good bitterness. Medium bodied.
Great WC Pale as usual.
Great WC Pale as usual.
Tried
from Can
from The Fuss Club
on 03 Sep 2026
at 20:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Loose white head on a slowly carbonating clear golden coloured body.
Bitter hop & pine aroma.
Medium bodied, foamy with a cloying back.
Pine, resin, grapefruit & boiled sweets tastes with a bitterly hopped finish.
Good one
Bitter hop & pine aroma.
Medium bodied, foamy with a cloying back.
Pine, resin, grapefruit & boiled sweets tastes with a bitterly hopped finish.
Good one
Tried
from Can
on 15 Aug 2026
at 17:49
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 04/08/2026.
Golden to light copper topped with a white crown.
Nose is grass, pine needle, bitter orange, grapefruit zest.
Taste comprises crisp malts, grass, pine needle, ripe melon.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctured with light juicy come grassy hop bitterness.
Tidy WC pale.
Golden to light copper topped with a white crown.
Nose is grass, pine needle, bitter orange, grapefruit zest.
Taste comprises crisp malts, grass, pine needle, ripe melon.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close punctured with light juicy come grassy hop bitterness.
Tidy WC pale.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2026
at 18:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
I once interviewed the Chairman of QPR at Loftus Road. This 'Loftus' has less to say, dirty-hoppy tasting, similar aroma, it's gritty-tasting for it, a somewhat abject west coast styled brew, not undrinkable though, just extreme in its ingredients in an unfavourable way.
Tried
from Draft
from
Husk Beer Emporium
on 24 Jul 2026
at 07:47