Four C's Pale Ale
The Brew Kettle Brewery in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.04
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A malty pale with Cascade, Centennial, Columbus and Chinook hops creating citrus and pine-like flavor with assertive bitterness.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 12 oz bottle. Pours a fear burnished gold with an off white head. Grassy nose. Flavors of citrus and pine. BItter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2016
at 18:49
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, no bottle dating. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy golden orange color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon zest, orange peel, light pine, light caramel, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus hops and moderate pale malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon zest, orange peel, pine, light caramel, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness. Good amount of pine/citrus rind bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, lemon/orange peel, pine, light caramel, bread, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice complexity and robustness of bright citrus/pine hops and moderate pale malt flavors; with a crisp malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, crisp, and resinous sticky mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is an excellent American pale ale style. All around great complexity of bright citrus/pine hops and moderate pale malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2015
at 21:55
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle. Pine, orange peel and light caramel malt aroma. Amber with large off-white head. Sweet orange malt and moderately bitter pine/grapefruit peel flavor. Great hop profile - an excellent APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2014
at 13:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours copper, nose is floral, taste is quite fruity and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2014
at 10:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle picked up at Dutchs. Hazy, super murky unfitlered orange-tan-brown body. Thin, oily off-white head. Has a nice dry, citrus, feel. Grapefruit, orange peel. Not quite World Class, but a nice example of the classic American hops. Comes off pretty full bodied. Imperfect overall feel, some buttery undertones. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2013
at 22:24
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 8
Cloudy, orange-amber with a whipped, off-white head. Light orange, pine aroma. Taste is fruit, grass, pine. Very refreshing and light. Pretty good.
Tried
on 31 Aug 2013
at 12:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
bottle at home ... copper .. thin white head ... soft zezty floral hopnose ... sweet hops ... ligth floral hop nose ..juicy fruits ... zezty floral hop ...
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2013
at 14:56
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours clear amber with a small white head that dissipates with decent lacing. Aroma is caramel and pine resin. Flavor is caramel, resin, spruce, light sweet and light bitter. Light to medium body. Not getting much citrus from this one. Fairly malty APA, but not a bat drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2013
at 19:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks to bittermestupid for this bottle. Pours clear copper with a bubbly creamy white head. Aroma seems floral over pitted fruit over citrus over caramel. Med body. Flavor is a lot of hop over decent roast malt backbone. And then something strange kicks in and makes it seem really hoppy. Not NW hoppy, but hoppy. Finishes dry with a nice little bitter bitterness. Like pure dry bitter. Above average "APA".
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2012
at 16:32
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Received in trade from barak316, thanks for the opportunity. Pours a crystal clear deep copper color that borders on brown and wears a creamy white head that sticks around for a bit. Smells of citrus and pine, grapefruit and resin mixed with a bit of caramel. Taste is nicely balanced between malt and hop with a nice citrusy old school pale ale kind of feel to it. Medium body with a bit of residual sweetness, moderate level of carbonation and a lick almost sweet mouthfeel. Nice easy drinking pale ale with enough hop to keep it interesting.
Tried
on 12 Mar 2012
at 18:08