Cougar
Fat Cat Brewery in Norwich, Norfolk, England 🏴
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.80
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Our palest beer yet - the result of using lager malt for a more gentle malt flavour. This beer is all about the American hops, whose citrus aromas burst out with a wonderful freshness. The hops dominate the flavour, as you’d expect, and lead into a crisp dry finish which leaves the palate clean and ready for another pint!
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Fat Cat Norwich. Clear gold colour lasting white head. Some hoppiness. Them the hops really kick in. Hoppy citrus bit also something deeper. Pretty decent.
Tried
from Cask
at
Fat Cat
on 26 Sep 2025
at 18:23
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at the Lincoln beer festival 2024. Deep golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are light citrus. And sweet. Slight juicy. Medium body.
Tried
from Can
on 23 May 2024
at 15:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample thanks to Grumbo: Poured a murky brown orange with a frothy white head. Aroma is perfume, fruity, malty. Taste is bitter, hoppy, fruity, malts.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2021
at 21:48
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
2/1/2021. Attractive swing-top bottle from the Norfolk Food & Drink Co, Cromer. Pours slightly hazy straw gold with a small frothy white head. Aroma is hoppy, apricot, straw, citrus, orange, flowers. Moderate to medium sweetness and medium bitterness. Moderate body, oily texture, average carbonation. Nice biscuity, husky, slightly spicy, bitter finish. Quite decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2021
at 12:59
6/10
Tried
on 09 Oct 2020
at 16:02
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Fighting Cock, Bradford. Golden coloured with a small head. Hoppy in the main, certainly in its taste, with some maltiness in its aroma.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2016
at 05:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the Nags Head, Reading. This is one of those occasions when I wonder if I’m drinking from the same cask as everyone else. To me, this was full of blackberry fruit, rather than citrus. Nevermind, here goes. A slightly hazy pale amber pour with a tight cream head; aroma of purple fruit; smooth in the mouth and medium bodied, with nicely balanced fruit and bitterness; and then some sweetness to finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 May 2016
at 10:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Fat Cat brewery tap. Pours clear yellow-gold with a frothy white head. The aroma holds marmalade, grainy pale malts, rindy lemon, hay. Light to medium sweet flavor with doughy white bread, some tangerine, husky grains. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish with pale, grainy malts, some rindy bitterness, dirty hay. An OK gold overall.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Nov 2015
at 12:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Harop. Deep gold, orange tint. Clean, herbal. Orange se. Whet biscuits. Light, lemon and orange, flowery, light sweetness. Nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Aug 2015
at 06:05