Country Pale Ale
Wachusett Brewing Company in Westminster, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
5.96
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Our original pale ale with perfect balance of hop bitterness and malt sweetness. Crafted the same way since the early 90's with American two-row pale and Crystal malts; Northern Brewer, Willamette, Tettnang and Cascade hops.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Draft. Pours very reddish brownish, medium head. Citrusy with some hops. A good summer brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2025
at 00:44
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Andover Liquors. Appearance is light orange with yellow-green tinge, fair sparkle, finger-width foamy head with poor retention and nice soapy lacing. Aroma is tart funkiness (not sure is intentional)--almost metallic in nature--over bread with citrus. Taste is tart/metallic over bread/caramel and light resin. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, this feels very retro, but not in a cool way. Skippable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2017
at 18:34
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle pours a hazy copper golden quick fizzy light tan head. Grainy light malt flavors. Some hop character and fair bitterness. Some wet paper malt notes at the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2016
at 21:03
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap. Amber colored. Earthy nose, lemon, grass, chewy malts. Rounded, estery, fruity flavor, peaches and oranges, some biscuits. Decent drinking beer, though nothing special.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Aug 2014
at 20:52
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pours a deep golden color with a decent white head that recedes quickly but leaves a fair amount of lace on the way down. Smells earthy and bit minerally with a fair amount of sugary malt sweetness and light floral hops beneath it. The flavor is sweet with an odd buttery tartness to it. Light toffee and butterscotch flavor with a mineral aspect to it. Little hop flavor and barely enough bitterness to keep this from cloying. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet sugary bubbly mouthfeel. I picked this up on a whim to fill my mix a six. This is quite sweet and lacks any balance, I’m glad I only have one.
Tried
on 16 Nov 2012
at 18:04
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 oz. Hazy amber/ blond. Light fruit nose. Taste is like a crisp apple, light malt and hint of hops in the background. Light body with a water like mouthfeel. Has some drinkability. Not a bad beer after a long hot day of yard work. It is refreshing but nothing you have to seek out.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2011
at 20:06
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle–pours a foamy off white head that laces and copper color. Aroma is mild grainy/medium malt, earthy. Taste is rich medium malt/some grainy, secondary earthy/slight spice hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2009
at 12:09
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Pours pure deep gold with thin white head. The aroma is light with sugary malts and floral hops mixing with more mild malts at the end of the draw. The taste is tingly with carbonation pushing up sweetness of malts and apples and moving toward sweet berry notes and hints of flowers. Interesting stuff.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2009
at 22:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours clear copper into a shaker. Fluffy white micro head with excellent retention leaves slight sheets as it recedes to coat surface. Stale orange aromas. Crisp and bready from front to back. Mild, dry, abrupt finish.
Tried
on 27 Oct 2008
at 18:57
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Nice frothy head that leaves lacing and it has a yellow amber color. Light malty aroma. Kind of sour. Light malty taste. Slightly dry taste by the end. Kind of grainy. A mediocre beer. But tastes fine.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2008
at 16:02