Harvest Ale
Victory Brewing Company in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Autumn|
Score
7.18
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Highly aromatic and sensual, this novel pale ale delivers a fresh hop flavor like no other brew. Its secret? Fresh hops piled into our boiling kettle just hours after their harvest. With many more of their essential oils intact, these “wet” hops add glorious notes of juicy, fruit to a lightly sweet and balanced brew. Best enjoyed fresh!
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottled. Nice pour tending to coppery amber. Kind if creamy, some malts and citrus. Enjoyable
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:11
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottles from Mondo Vino 2-5-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2020
at 05:28
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Copper and toffee coloured body with a smallish, single centimetre tall off-white head and a bit of an amber glow as well. Aroma of fresh grassy, floral and perfumey hops with a nice malt and toffee scent as well. Medium-bodied; Strong biting floral and grassy hoppy flavours up front with a smooth and sweet caramely and biscuity malt presence along with some dry herbal flavours and a touch of sugar at the end - very well balanced. Aftertaste shows some grain, a bit of caramel, a good deal of dryness and a lot of floral, grassy and very perfumey hop characteristics along with a great balance of malt throughout. Overall, a very nice fresh hopped APA with some good dry elements and a very well struck balance between the hops and the malt. Definitely worth trying (especially fresh) if you can find this! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 15-November-2016 for US$3,24 sampled at home on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on 14-January-2017.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jan 2017
at 00:39
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From a bottle at Dominion Wine and Beer. Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Fruity nose. Flavors of mandarin oranges. Bitter finish. Very tasty!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Oct 2016
at 09:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle. Amber orange color topped by a small creamy beige head with nice lacing. Fresh spicy hop nose has floral and fruity notes. Bittersweet toasted malt flavor has a toffeeish character. Midtaste brings a big juicy hop burst. I get tangerine and grassy notes. Finish is spicy with tropical fruitiness. Quite complex and tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2016
at 21:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Orange malt and metallic orange peel aroma. Golden yellow with small light tan head. Sweet milky orange malt and moderately bitter earthy orange peel flavor. Nice body. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2016
at 20:35
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Cat pee, grass, lemon zest, orange nose with marshmallow highlights. Cloudy copper, medium yellow head. Tea, grass, orange. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Decent, but doesn’t taste very fresh, which rather defeats the purpose of a wet hop beer. Bottle is undated, and I don’t recall sitting on it for very long.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2016
at 20:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Capitol Beer. Pours clear copper with a creamy beige head. Hoppy aroma - citrus and stone fruit? Med body at least. Flavor is hoppy - citrus/light stone fruit/tea? It’s towards dry and decently bitter. The (to me) complex hop flavor is tasty and intriguing. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2016
at 18:53
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Aroma: grass, hay, resin Appearance: clear gold-amber, off-white head Taste: medium sweetness, medium bitterness, Palate: medium body, sticky, soft carbonation, long finish, Nice
Tried
on 15 Nov 2015
at 08:33
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle dated: Enjoy by 07 Mar 2016, for an 6.5% APA, makes me think this was bottled this week, could be wrong, eh, no worries, here’s the rest.
Treated as an APA, this was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy bronzed brown color with one finger white foamy head that dissipated fairly quickly. Lacing was semi-thick in a messy sort of way.
The smell started off with a slick resinous oily deep dark pine, fresh and green almost as if it was plucked just yesterday.
The taste was sweet to bitter oily slick faded green leafy hops (just look up dank in the beer dictionary, it’ll tell you what dank really means). Malts, what malts, if there’s malts in this, they’re nowhere substantially displaying any kind of flavor. Yes, there’s a sweet to spicy to bitter danky aftertaste.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with an okay sessionability about it. Hop oils split my tongue practically in half with pungent sticky bitterness enslaving my tongue.
Overall, the more I think about it, the more I think this had to have been bottled this week. As much as I don’t mind the \"enjoy by\" date, sometimes, a born on date at least with the \"wet hopped\" APA’s might be more useful. Still, I’d have this again.
Treated as an APA, this was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy bronzed brown color with one finger white foamy head that dissipated fairly quickly. Lacing was semi-thick in a messy sort of way.
The smell started off with a slick resinous oily deep dark pine, fresh and green almost as if it was plucked just yesterday.
The taste was sweet to bitter oily slick faded green leafy hops (just look up dank in the beer dictionary, it’ll tell you what dank really means). Malts, what malts, if there’s malts in this, they’re nowhere substantially displaying any kind of flavor. Yes, there’s a sweet to spicy to bitter danky aftertaste.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with an okay sessionability about it. Hop oils split my tongue practically in half with pungent sticky bitterness enslaving my tongue.
Overall, the more I think about it, the more I think this had to have been bottled this week. As much as I don’t mind the \"enjoy by\" date, sometimes, a born on date at least with the \"wet hopped\" APA’s might be more useful. Still, I’d have this again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2015
at 13:57