Half Acre Beer Company Smoking Gull

Smoking Gull

 

Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating
Score
7.04
ABV: 5.3% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Pale Ale brewed with Pilsner, Vienna, and flaked oats, ridden hard with Citra and Mosaic hops, touching on a bunch of mod slants on packing hop luster.
 

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7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

This is a nice pale ale. Pine and citrus hop aromas and flavors combine with bready, slightly caramelly malt. Moderately bitter. Goes down easy.

Tried from Can from Belmont Beverage - West State on 16 Nov 2025 at 05:39


6.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

16oz can from beer club selection. Really nice pale ale - hazy and heavier. Good beer

Tried from Can on 25 Oct 2025 at 05:17


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught @ Replay, Lakewood NJ which has since closed down. Clear rich amber with a small foamy light beige head, faint caramel malt aroma, medium carbonation, mildly sweet caramel malt - faintly piney taste, thin smooth body, long lightly piney finish. Nice smooth pale ale.

Tried on 24 Mar 2023 at 20:34

gave a cheers!

7.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Tap. Pours hazy yellow, small white head, good lacing. Aroma is super grapefruity, bit of armpit. Flavor is light sweet, light bitter. A touch sharp. Light plus body. Solid

Tried from Draft on 06 May 2022 at 23:47

gave a cheers!

Nice crusher and flavorful pale. Tropical fruit, hoppy, light. Speaking of light, watching Sunderland/Sheffield Wednesday from the Stadium of Light. Also, birds aren’t real.

Tried on 06 May 2022 at 16:05


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Both Aromas and flavors are a nice blend of grapefruit and resin hops, Bitter, Sweet and carbonation. Decent body and nice grapefruit finish. Good drinking beer.

Tried on 05 Sep 2021 at 00:49


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Pint can from Festival Fond du Lac, 8/14/21. Yes, I bought this because of the cute label.Hazy orange, large white head, good retention. Aroma of pineapple, tropical fruit, a bit of dank. Taste is pineapple, mango, pale malt. Juicy, low bitterness. Simple but nice.

Tried from Can on 15 Aug 2021 at 02:10

gave a cheers!

7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

From tap at the brewery. Almost clear yellow golden color with white head. Malty and light hoppy aroma, grain, straw, citrus, floral, caramel. Sweet and bitter taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2018 at 17:11

gave a cheers!

7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

On tap at The Beer Temple. Pours a clear yellow with a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a combination of earthy citrus and onion with supporting notes of grass and grains. Flavor has citrus and light onion with grass and grains underlying.

Tried from Draft on 14 Jul 2018 at 00:08

gave a cheers!