Steel Rail Extra Pale Ale
Berkshire Brewing Company in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.20
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Berkshire Brewing Company's flagship brew is a light colored, medium bodied ale exhibiting exceptional freshness through its 2-Row Pale malt backbone and signature hop flavor and aroma. In the words of renowned beer writer Lew Bryson, Steel Rail EPA is “what the water in heaven oughta taste like.”
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
22oz bottle pours a hazy gold with some spitty, white head. Nose doesn’t have much, orange floral, honey, metal. Flavor is the same, some chrysanthemum, honey, orange, lemon. Watery finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2013
at 13:24
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Orange, melon, and quinine aroma. Hazy golden yellow with small head. Sweet orange/melon malt and mildly bitter herbal/orange peel flavor. Pretty tasty but not like a typical APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2013
at 16:41
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle courtesy of AirForceHops. Biscuity malt and light fresh fruity hops aroma. Cloudy golden yellow with a large white head. Sweet malt and fresh citrusy floral hops flavor. Light body, lively carbonation. Very easy drinking on a hot humid day. The hops are very restrained coming across as fresh and fruity, but not really bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2013
at 14:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap at Max Burger, Longmeadow, 18/05/13. Very lightly hazed pale golden with a thin white head. Nose is pale malt, grass, citrus, light hops. Taste follows. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, crisp finish with a little bitterness. Ok drinkable affair if a little unforgettable.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jun 2013
at 02:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tap at Mass MoCA during the Jeff Mangum concert. Pours mostly clear gold with a small, white foam head. It’s a very simple beer, lots of bready malts, mellow bitterness, some caramel and ripe orange. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Basic, sweet malty finish, suggestions of pine and citrus, lots of pale bread. It’s an easy-drinking beer but certainly quite restrained.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2013
at 09:20
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
It poured a light golden color and it left a one inch white foamy head in my nonic. Some nice foamy clingy lacing appears and gently slides down the sides of the glass. The body was pretty clear. The smell was very malty through creamy sweet corn, hops were there but extremely subdued. The taste was sweet through the previously mentioned flavors and grew slightly bitter as the hops came in through some slight warming of the.beer. The mouthfeel was medium. It was fairly drinkable. It leaves a sticky aftertaste and a slightly bitter finish. Overall, I liked it for the most part, Id have this again. It didnt stray from the style.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2013
at 19:54
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Growler, Aroma is floral hops and maybe passion fruit. Pours a yellow color with a thin white head. Once again the taste is much of the same. I like this beer, I’ve hadit many times on tap. Very decent beer from Western MA.
Tried
from Growler
on 20 Aug 2010
at 17:58
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bomber. Light gold color. Aroma of honey, cereals, lemon, golden malts. Sweet, malty flavor with hiney, lemon, and grans. A bit too sweet, but refreshng and smooth.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2010
at 07:51
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Trying to read my notes on this one. I think I probably meant to give it a "3.0", but it’s hard to read my writing. Clear amber pour. Some floral malt nose. Taste is mild bitter hops. Rated 2/21/05
Tried
on 03 May 2010
at 01:04
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 8
Overall 5
terrible, really disappointing. on tap @ GIBF, wheat, grass, not a good APA, more of a pilsner, just start over again on this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Nov 2009
at 14:34