Barba Pale Ale
LAB Split in Split, Split-Dalmatia, Croatia 🇭🇷
Brewed at/by: Zmajska PivovaraPale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
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Score
6.58
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Barba is a light Pale Ale style of beer, light and drinkable. It is moderately hopped with Cascade, Columbus, Mosaic and Simcoe hops. Each hop is carefully balanced to offer a blend of floral, grapefruit, piney and citrusy aromas. A light sweet body, along with a mild hoppy bitterness, creates a refreshing zesty ale, ideal s a first beer if you are getting into craft beers. Keep it cool and drink fresh.
Barba je svijetlo ale pivo laganog i pitkog tijela. Lagano je zahmeljeno hmeljevima Cascade, Columbus, Mosaic i Simcoe, koji su pivu dali cvjetnu, citrusnu i tropsku notu. Ovaj Pale Ale će vas svojom profinjenom gorčinom i primamljivim aromama savršeno uvesti u svijet craft piva. Kako bi zadržalo svjež okus hmelja i slada, potrebno ga je čuvati na hladnom i piti svježe.
Initially brewed with Centennial, Chinook and Columbus. Since April 2025 changed from 5.4% to 5% and produced at Zmajska pivovara.
Previous description:
BARBA Pale Ale is the headlining beer coming out of First Local Craft Brewery called LAB Split. Barba is product of years of home-brewing experience and testing. Idea behind the BARBA was to create American Pale Ale best suited for hot Mediterranean summers. You can expect dry to medium body, leaving smooth sweetness mouth-feel, combined with bitter touch of carefully selected American Hops (Centennial, Chinook and Columbus) with silky bitter aftertaste produced by process of first wort hopping.
Centennial - Medium with floral and citrus tones,
Chinook - Mild to medium-heavy, spicy, piney, and grapefruity,
Columbus - Earthy, citrus & spicy
Barba je svijetlo ale pivo laganog i pitkog tijela. Lagano je zahmeljeno hmeljevima Cascade, Columbus, Mosaic i Simcoe, koji su pivu dali cvjetnu, citrusnu i tropsku notu. Ovaj Pale Ale će vas svojom profinjenom gorčinom i primamljivim aromama savršeno uvesti u svijet craft piva. Kako bi zadržalo svjež okus hmelja i slada, potrebno ga je čuvati na hladnom i piti svježe.
Initially brewed with Centennial, Chinook and Columbus. Since April 2025 changed from 5.4% to 5% and produced at Zmajska pivovara.
Previous description:
BARBA Pale Ale is the headlining beer coming out of First Local Craft Brewery called LAB Split. Barba is product of years of home-brewing experience and testing. Idea behind the BARBA was to create American Pale Ale best suited for hot Mediterranean summers. You can expect dry to medium body, leaving smooth sweetness mouth-feel, combined with bitter touch of carefully selected American Hops (Centennial, Chinook and Columbus) with silky bitter aftertaste produced by process of first wort hopping.
Centennial - Medium with floral and citrus tones,
Chinook - Mild to medium-heavy, spicy, piney, and grapefruity,
Columbus - Earthy, citrus & spicy
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle@Jespers - Clear golden pour with a big puffy white head. Sweet fruity and light pale malty, some citrus fruity undertones, medium body, hoppy light bitter close.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2018
at 14:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cl bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow, huge white head. Aroma is grapefruity, citrusy. Bitter, slight estery. Mellow fruity. Light estery into a mild fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Sep 2018
at 14:25
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Golden color, with a small white head. The aroma is fruity hoppy, citrus, grapefruit. Taste is malty, with again the fruity notes of the hops. Medium bitterness, very well balanced and enjoyable. Medium carbonation. Very easy to drink, you would drink more and more. Nice beer.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2018
at 17:27
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, shared at THT Nov. '17, country ticks galore tasting. Finally a beer with acutal beer flavor! Hazy golden color. Fluffy white head. Aroma's: firm hoppy, resinous, light perfumey. Flavor is mild bitter. Light bodied. Long finish, rather bitter, a bit herbal. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2017
at 06:14
7/10
Tried
on 03 Nov 2017
at 20:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
THT November at Kwartje. Bottle shared. Hazy golden with white head. Sweet malts, floral, fruity, sweet and quite big notes of spices, cloves predominantly. Moderate sweet and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of LAB Barba Pale Ale on 23 Dec 2017 at 17:25 - Score: 7. Original review text: 3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2017
at 14:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at THT November. Bit hazy golden with fluffy white head. Flowery hops, light caramel, perfume, light lime peel, lychee, dry bready notes. Light sweet and medium bitter. Under medium bodied with slight dry feel and fizzy carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2017
at 14:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at THT November. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of floral and herbal hops, perfume, light grassy, green weeds, light yeast and light malt. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and above moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2017
at 14:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Istria trip. Hazy goldish without head. Aroma won’t amaze you as well, it’s more sweet than hoppy. Taste unremarkable, bitter, dry finish. Nice try though. May work well for Adriatic summer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2017
at 15:59
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
5.4% alk. Jedan stvarno odličan pale ale. Lijepo gorak, skoro kao IPA, ali naravno manje mirišljava od IPA-e. Svima koji vole gorke pive će se ovo svidjeti, dakle nije za svakoga.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2017
at 11:04