Pale Ale
Buzzards Bay Brewing in Westport, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.42
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jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Pale Ale from Buzzards Bay Brewing 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Yellow straw pour with nice white head. Hops and malt. Better than mass produced pale ales, but average micro. I tend not to like this style very much. Rated 3/19/03
beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed Pale Ale from Buzzards Bay Brewing 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
My friend Artem brough this back from his trip to Cape Cod. Orange color beer. Aroma is light vegetable with past their prime fruits (cherries maybe). Taste is plain pale ale with crystal malts and a weird out of place fruit finish. Plain and boring.
Frothingslosh (19093) reviewed Pale Ale from Buzzards Bay Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5
This beer came to me from my beer club. I have never encountered any of this brewer’s beers before -and based on this sampling I have not been missing much. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright bronze color with a large tan head. The aroma is nutty malts and sharp floral hops. The flavor is sour malts with a bitter floral hop presence reminiscent of windex. There is a off vegetal malt undertone that lingers on the finish. Yuck.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Pale Ale from Buzzards Bay Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The Buzzard’s Bay page is so messed up on this site, I don’t even know to which beer this refers.
But the beer that Buzzards bay is currently producing called "Pale Ale" with a green label is the one I’m reviewing. Bottle, sampled July 2005. Golden, honey-amber pour, clear and filtered, but has some white head, which lasts for a few seconds. Clings to the side and finally disappears completely. Smells of thick, juicy, strong English hops. Moderately bitter and very fruity, with caramel and toffee. Flavor is tons of hops flavor, limes, bananas, pineapples, apples, peaches. Some vanilla and grainy, pale malt with light caramel on the end. Very thick and satisfying body, for how filtered it is. Carbonation is too much to start, being forced, but eases off nicely. Moderately acidic on the end, from the hops. I’m surprised they got this much bitterness from only English hops, it’s almost like there are amarillos in here, yet I don’t really taste the signature grapefruit and I dont really think they are in here. Anyways, it’s very well-hopped, and well balanced with a creamy, honey-caramel consistency and solid body.
Earlier Rating: 5/11/2004 Total Score: 4.1
AOBF 04. Draught. I never really saw anyone get in line for this one, and not being a big name, or an exciting style I suppose I see why. But it’s too bad no one did. This stuff was delicious. Pours a typical light yellow-amber with a firm white head. Aroma is very engaging, dry and sweet at the same time, with a grassy, herbal nature almost. Crisp and bitter on the nose. The flavor is very well balanced of light caramel malt, lots of barley and a smooth, even texture. Hops flavor is phenomenal. Subtle, with floral qualities (light blossoms, flowers, dry mowed grass clippings) and some lightly spicy herbs in there as well (lightly peppery, hints of vanilla). Wow. Great stuff and just shows that you don’t have to brew a difficult style to showcase your talent.
SpringsLicker (4048) reviewed Pale Ale from Buzzards Bay Brewing 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
This appealing golden brew pours brilliantly clear with a tall, sticky, off white head. It has a nicely complex aroma to it, some yeast, some sweet malt and a bit of orange that come off rather well. The body is a bit thin, but the flavor is a pleasant light sweet malt. Not quite the Pale Ale the name suggests, and maybe not quite an ESB either, but this is certainly a refreshing drinkable brew that I would drink again.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Pale Ale from Buzzards Bay Brewing 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Beautiful clear red-amber, orange shine; slim orangey head, creamy, slightly irregular - the perfect glass of ale. At first only malt in the nose, like in a malt silo, grain, worts, but there are noble hops hiding. Some caramel & biscuit. And then the hops come out of the hiding, in the taste. No doubt, there's plenty of cookie malt present, but the hops exert domination in bitterness and hopflavour. Hoppiness even verges on the edge of adstringency. Well-bodied. Hopheads might be put off by the very malty nose - they would be very sorry if it led them to pass this beer. 't Is a very hoppy and pleasing beer - and a very hopped beer needs some good malt underbuild, IMO.