Traditional Ale
Berkshire Brewing Company in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.70
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a murky dark orange color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that slid off at a decent pace. Mild stringy lace.
The aroma had some herbal to earthy hop qualities blending with some smooth semi-sweet cereal to biscuit-like malts. Light butterscotch and some caramel to toffee malts even come out to balance fairly nice.
The flavor had the semi-dry and semi-sweet clean malt quality about it with a low hop bitter character about it. Sly aftertaste of this malt rides into the finish with the same low hop quality about it.
The palate was about medium bodied with a fair sessionable smooth aspect to it. Hop bitterness was quite contained. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, pretty good pale ale, seemed close to an English styled one, but still worthy of coming back to.
The aroma had some herbal to earthy hop qualities blending with some smooth semi-sweet cereal to biscuit-like malts. Light butterscotch and some caramel to toffee malts even come out to balance fairly nice.
The flavor had the semi-dry and semi-sweet clean malt quality about it with a low hop bitter character about it. Sly aftertaste of this malt rides into the finish with the same low hop quality about it.
The palate was about medium bodied with a fair sessionable smooth aspect to it. Hop bitterness was quite contained. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, pretty good pale ale, seemed close to an English styled one, but still worthy of coming back to.
Tried
on 21 May 2017
at 15:15
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From old tasting notes. Hazy Amber brown color. Thick creamy beige head. Tart celery malt nose. Bittersweet toasted malt flavor has spicy bitter hop aftertaste.
Tried
on 11 Apr 2017
at 19:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours copper/amber. White head. Nose and taste of pine, biscuit malt, caramel, resin and light grass. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2014
at 17:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at Sander’s in NYC. Pours clear, deep gold with a fine white cream head. Decent stuff, pretty basic. Lots of bready malts, some brown sugar, a bit of caramel, light bitterness. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, bready malts, some toasty doughy bread. Easy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2013
at 19:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bomber from Whole Foods Market Darien. Pours a hazy amber color with a thin frothy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of citrus, floral, tropical hops and very faint pale malts. The taste is citrus hops and toasted caramel malts. Medium bodied. Solid.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2012
at 13:21
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
growler-Small Gathering @my place-pours a retaining tight light tan head and copper/red color. Aroma is soft biscuit/bread-light/medium malt, secondary earthy/slight pine/resin hops. Taste is sweet light/medium malt-biscuit/bread/caramel, secondary spice/pine/resin hops with some bite, bark. Grainy mouth feel. Good carbonation.
Tried
from Growler
on 18 Jul 2011
at 16:29
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Cambridge Commons. Nothing pale about this puppy. Clear amber color, thick beige head, solid lacing. Aroma and taste of butterscotch, nutmeg, chicory. Some residual sugar. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Mar 2011
at 11:52
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
22 oz.bottle. Amber with mahogany hues, pours with a small white head. Aroma has mild caramel, smooth finish. drinkable but nothing that with knock your socks off. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2010
at 19:27
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A dark reddish amber ale with a thin creamy off white head. A strong diacetyl aroma cloying, strawberries. In mouth, a nutty and buttery ale with light hops, medium bodied. On tap at Flat Street Brewpub, Brattleboro, August 2 2009.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Aug 2009
at 09:32
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours hazy amber into a shaker. Beige head quickly recedes to skim surface. Sour caramel aromas. Tastes like the aroma with a mild hop finish.
Tried
on 18 Jan 2009
at 18:20