Stranger Pale Ale
Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.20
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Sane or senseless? Harmless or harmful? Sometimes it takes awhile to get to know a stranger. Initial impressions are not always reality, so you must delve deeper. Beyond the initial floral hop aromas, malt sweetness is revealed, yet with a spicy undertone that exposes a very rye sense of humor. Take your time to get to know the Stranger. It’s strangely satisfying.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at White Horse. It pours orange=amber, with a thin white head. The nose is sweet malt, orange, boiled sweets and maybe a touch of sweaty sock. The taste is very light, hay, orange, citrus pith, lemony soap, spice, straw and faint tropical fruit. Light body and moderate carbonation. Easy drinking, but relatively unexciting.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2012
at 05:45
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
$1.85 bottle from Wine Warehouse, Charlottesville. Pours slightly hazy apricot color with no head. Smells of sweet fruits, honey, almost grape. Lightly flavored - finishes with a nice crisp apricot.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2012
at 11:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at Beer Temple. Clear dark golden pour with a medium white head. Aroma of grassy and citrus hops. Flavour is light sweet, some fruit and citrus and a big background bitterness. Light bodied with high carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2012
at 06:59
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Half Time. Pours a light golden amber with an extremely transient head. Aroma of floral and lighter pitted fruits. Med body. Flavor is rye spicy with some floral, pitted fruit, and citrus. Very clean and pleasant, finishing mostly dry with moderate bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2012
at 16:53
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle pours clear copper with gold hues and thin off white head. The modest aroma has some malt sweetness backed up by a mild level of spicy to just vague hoppiness. The taste rolls out various hoppy notes like bland sort of spicy hops, some mild earthy hops and faint floral hops hit before sweet sugar malts surge forward to about midway. The modest and mostly vague hop bitterness mix with a bit of malts taking this into the finish. Meh, so so offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jun 2012
at 05:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a cloudy copper with a frothy white head. The aroma is a bready malt and floral hop notes. Medium mouthfeel with a sweet malt And rye flavor with a light spice finish. A good pale ale from Left Hand.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2012
at 17:07
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Orange hops and caramel malt aroma. Cloudy gold with a thin white ring. Metallic grassy/herbal bitter flavor, very little malt. Thin watery body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2012
at 12:06
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 4
Hazy golden coloured body with a very thin white head. Aroma of fresh grassy and slightly grapefruity hops with some malt and a touch of fruity sweetness. Light-bodied; Odd grassy flavour at first then shows a lot of malt bitterness, some watery hops and a little bit of earthing funk at the end. Aftertaste has no body at all, only a little flavour and a hint of bitterness. Overall, not such a great beer - the flavour depth doesn’t exist and the complexity shows more like a pale lager. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Giant Food in Falls Church (Bailey’s Crossroads), Virginia on 08-February-2012 for US$9.99/6pack sampled at home in Washington on 14-March-2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2012
at 23:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Fra kran på Olympen, Oslo 18 Okt 11. Lys gylden. OK kremaktig skum som ligger igjen i nivåer mens en jobber seg nedover i glasset. Litt uklar. Frisk fruktig aroma. Ananas & epler. God! Balansert fruktig smak. Sitrus & aprikos. Variert tørr bitterhet etterhvert.
Tried
on 21 Feb 2012
at 02:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Small sample, on tap at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Deep golden colour, large head. Lovely hoppy and spicy aroma and flavour - an excellent beer, as far as I could tell. Will rerate as soon as I get a bigger sample (had to drive tonight).
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2012
at 14:14