Hop Making Sense
Cellarmaker Brewing Company in Oakland, California, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.47
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Hopped with Nelson, Mosaic, Strata and Simcoe to create a pungent, but easy drinking beer. This brew will fill all of your West Coast needs with a clear appearance, citrus and piney dank aroma and a crisp hoppy bite.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Tried
from Can
on 01 Mar 2025
at 20:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473ml can. Clear, yellow-ish, pale golden colour with average to huge, frothy, rapidly diminishing, minimally lacing, white head. Grassy, floral and citrusy fruity, minimally piney, hoppy as well as slightly spicy, pale malty and minimally funky, floral, yeasty aroma, notes of old lemon peel, a touch of grapefruit rind, juniper berry, whiffs of chamomile. Taste is dry, grassy, and citrusy fruity, floral and minimally piney hoppy, slightly spicy, pale malty basis without residual sweetness, notes of old lemon peel, grapefruit rind, a touch of salted lemon, salty cracker, juniper berry, a weak touch of chamomile, some zesty bitterness. Oily-watery texture, minimally greasy, simultaneously dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation. Nice dirty funky touch, quite some unusual flavours; not a typical West Coast Pale Ale - very interesting stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 27 May 2024
at 22:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from a 16 oz can dated April 17, 2023. Aroma is hop forward with lots of gooseberry, berry, passion fruit, mango and tropical citrus. Light dank, oily resin notes. Light grain notes and hints of alcohol. Pours a moderately hazy, pale, yellow straw color with a medium sized, fairly thick, pillowy, white head that recedes steadily to a small film that lingers. Medium light lacing and faint legs. Flavor is slightly sweet with medium light cracker malt notes. Medium bitterness and light alcohol notes. Quite a bit of gooseberry, berry, passion fruit and tropical citrus with lighter notes of mango and dank, oily resin. Mouthfeel is medium to medium light bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a solid, hop-forward, pale ale. Lots of gooseberry notes in aroma and flavor with other balanced hop notes and a touch of dank, oily resin. Light malt notes and a bit of a lighter body with hints of alcohol. Moderately strong bitterness.
Tried
from Can
on 13 May 2023
at 02:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Slight haze, pale amber, medium head, good balance with moderate bitterness and citrusy hop.
Tried
on 08 May 2023
at 04:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Cloudwater Beer Fest, Manchester 2019. Pours clear yellow with a small white head. Sticky, fresh, green, juicy and tropical. Nice biter finish. Bright. Smooth..
Tried
on 08 Mar 2019
at 17:09
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From tap at the source. Clear golden color with white head. Malty and hoppy aroma, bread, grass, light pine, citrus. Sweet and bitter like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jul 2018
at 20:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Beercraft. Glowing golden, head fades to ring. Aroma hints at the grain bill, bready. Taste gets fruity and tangy, very smooth. Subdues, but underneath all that simplicity, lies a complex beast. Full bodied, gentle, small bite hangs on forever. Really nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Feb 2018
at 03:20
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at the brewery. Mostly clear translucent yellow golden / straw coloured pour with a lasting fine white head. Some lacing . aroma is big dank hop, lemon rind, chive raw straw. Flavour is composed of raw base grains, straw, lemon and dank hop, spicy Nobel hop notes. Nice fresh raw character to this. Palate is medium light bodied, grainy, moderate carbonation. Really good, dank Hoo pale.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Nov 2015
at 19:35
8/10
Tried
on 13 Nov 2015
at 01:07
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
The beer is a pale yellow gold with a nice white head. Lots of lacing, excellent retention. The aroma is pineapple, tangerine, pear, peach, blackberry, orange rind, lemon. Lots of nice hoppiness bouncing around. Light honey malt background. Taste is full of sweet hop flavor. Medium to light bitterness. Fairly dry.
Tried
on 25 Jan 2015
at 15:54