Keg at six degrees north Edinburgh. Pours golden, nose is light fruit, toffee, taste is juicy citrus, sweet, dry finish.

From the tasso at FOB, in Rimini, Italy. Pours slightly pale gold, with abundant very fine white foam. Aroma is lemon zest mainly. Body is light. Taste is sweetish, with some final bitterness. Final is short.

Hazy golden appearance. Mild in both aroma and taste, floral, fruity and light. Very drinkable but rather nondescript as a pale ale. Has a rather interesting aftertaste which is bitter, spicy and hoppy and even a bit boozy.

Slightly opalescent golden colour, medium sized dense white head; aroma of bread, citruses, mango and cloral notes; taste is the same with tangerine notes; a bit watery, but it is not a big issue in case of an APA

Keg at the bottle shop during the tap takeover. A clear golden yellow coloured pour with no head. Aroma is nutty cereal grains, honey, slightly stale, hints of lemon rind. Flavour is composed of light bready grains, white bread, stale cereal grains hint of lemon, grassy citrus. Palate is semi sweet and crisp, moderate carbonation.

33 cl bottle from Systembolaget. Hazy golden colour with an amber tint. Thin, white head. Fruity aroma with citrus, grapefruit, floral hops, pale malts and a lightly toasted note. Taste is bitter. Medium body with a creamy texture and a soft carbonation. Finishes dry and bitter with citrus fruits and pale malts. Nice and fresh APA.

Keg at Cerveteca, Lisbon, Portugal. A clear golden coloured pour with a thin white head on top. Hoppy, citrus, grapefruit aroma. Tastes hoppy, citrus, grapefruit.

Swedish APA, with blue label (other than shown here) but it must be the same beer. Light gusher, usually not a good sign in general, but particularly not for an APA. Thick, frothy, beaten egg-like, dense and fluffy head on top of a hazy pale orange blonde beer with a good deal of ’fine’ fizz piercing through; turns a cloudy ochre with deposit. Aroma of delicate American hoppiness mingled with some yeastiness; I get hoppy blood orange, yellow grapefruit, pine resin, marihuana, some sweet tropical flowers and some toasted onion on the one hand, but all in a soft, somewhat restrained, delicate kind of way, and yeasty and malty notes of bread dough, gooseberry, apricot, biscuit and even faint banana on the other hand. Spritzy, crisp, refreshing onset, fruity with both sweetish and sourish impressions tightly connected to each other (ripe peach, yellow raspberry, granadilla, apple peel), lively carbonation but not in a coarse way, extending far back over a background of supple, bready, biscuity malts providing a slick, lightly oily mouthfeel and into the finish, where hoppiness builds to spicy, leafy and aromatic (retronasal citrus and pine), drying and softly bittering and only laying on top of the juicy maltiness rather than deeply penetrating it as would be the case in a (modern) IPA - so in that sense a succesful APA. The lingering spicy, even peppery and grapefruity hop bitterness does however stay for quite a while, but so does a very pleasant yeast breadiness deep down. I was a bit worried about the yeastiness of this beer and the gushing, but it turns out alright; this is an accomplished APA, notably less clean and a lot yeastier than your average ’actual’ American example of the style, but a very pleasant and aromatic thirst quencher nonetheless, the yeasty character of which works better with the delicate New World hop character than I expected. Enjoyed this quite a lot.

Tap@Malmo Øl Festival, Malmo - almost clear golden pour with white head. Fruity and light malty, citrus fruity with some nice lemon and satsuma notes, light tropical notes coming in of peach and grapefruit, easy drinking refreshing pale. Nice one. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone