Green Line
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States πΊπΈ
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.22
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Named for our train line that runs outside of our brewery, Goose Island brings you Green Line Pale Ale. This honey-colored American Pale Ale has a crisp hop aroma, citrus flavor, and notes of biscuit and lightly toasted malt.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle (4%abv, 22 IBU) picked up at Harmons
Pours clear pale golden with a medium sized white head, some lacing. Aroma is bisquity, citrus and cereal. Flavor is citrusy, bready, straw with a bitter finish, dry
A decent pale ale
Pours clear pale golden with a medium sized white head, some lacing. Aroma is bisquity, citrus and cereal. Flavor is citrusy, bready, straw with a bitter finish, dry
A decent pale ale
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2016
at 22:42
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pour is a crystal clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is kind of a weak mixed bag of caramel malt and some hops. Flavor is kind of the same. Pretty heavy on the caramel malt not so heavy on the hops. Watery finish. Nothing special.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2016
at 18:29
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Craft Brews, Blues & BBQ. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is nice herbal hops, medium body, medium carbonation, thin pretty good lacing. Taste is crisp citrus hops and some herbal hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jun 2016
at 20:46
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes leaving scant sheets. Caramel and resin aromas. Sourdough, caramel and sweet marshmallow. Lasting, dry sour malt finish.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jun 2016
at 17:36
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
on tap quasi ambrata leggero vegetale leggero maltato filo caramello amaro medio
Tried
from Draft
on 27 May 2016
at 12:18
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Orange biscuit malt and metallic orange peel aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Mildly sweet orange malt and moderately bitter grapefruit peel flavor. Body a bit light. Nothing bad but pretty underwhelming - a very basic APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2016
at 15:01
5.5/10
Meh
Tried
on 29 Apr 2016
at 15:15
7/10
Tried
on 23 Apr 2016
at 15:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 1/14/2016. Pours slightly hazy deep golden yellow color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, honey, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/floral/earthy hops and bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, honey, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light pine/herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon/orange zest, light pepper/pine, honey, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/floral/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitterness that lightly increases through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately grainy/bready, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice American pale ale. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/floral/earthy hops and bready malt flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2016
at 21:03
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Beer Temple. Slightly hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma of crackers, light citrus, grain. Flavour is likewise, very dull, lifeless and dusty. Hopless. Light bodied. Utterly forgettable.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Apr 2016
at 08:31