Juniper Pale Ale

35cl Bottle from Vonk. BB 10-2015, so quite old. Hazy golden amber colour, creammy white head. Aroma of toffee, cookies, some resin and light floral. Flavour is medium sweet, malty, caramel, cookies, hint of juniper, light resin, hoppy finish. Light to medium bodied. Still nice.

Zacht, gruizig, hoppig, barleywine zoetigheid, stroeve bittere nasmaak. Fijn spulletje. Backlog from 2015/03/08.

355ml bottle. Clear golden orange color with off white head. Malty and hoppy aroma, caramel, light bready, grassy, piney, light fruity. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.

Botella. @La Taberna de Hank, Luanco. 13/06/2015 BBD:10/2015 Color amarillo turbio, espuma blanca, sabores hervales, pino. Cuerpo medio

Quite pale amber color, weak to moderate white creamy head. Aroma is medium sweet caramel, a bit bread and honey. Taste is sweet caramel malt, bit candy, some honey, moderate bitterness, herbal, floral hoppy, some breadiness in the finish. Low to medium bodied, moderate carbonation. (0.33 Dobro pivo pro Scurku, Ljubljana)

Bottle at home. Pours average white head, light amber color, fair lacing, medium body. Thin texture, average malty character, light to moderate bitterness. Not as complex as I would like it to be. First few sips leave a sour finish, but then bittersweet aftertaste takes over. An o.k. ale, but not as special.

355 ml. bottle @ home. Purchased from Caigny. BBF 11/2014. I really not to start looking at BBF dates before I buy beers. Pours a lightly hazy bright orange, little in the way of white head. Nose is unpleasant spoiled milk, rotting yeast, spoiled orange, fermenting lactic, unpleasant rotting yeast, not nice at all. Taste is thin, spoiled milky, ravaged by aged, lactic unpleasant yeast, rotting yeast, oily old orange peel, cabbage – quite a lot of it, vegetable, oily, faintly floral,… Thin, oily. Thin and ravaged by age but the base seem to be unpleasant as well. Touch watery. Sorry it has this old lactic yeast taste like a badly made Belgian. Age does play a part here for sure I cannot imagine this to be all that pleasant fresh. I would expect better from a craft brewery this big. Poured away almost all of it.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Rogue Juniper Pale Ale (by Rogue Ales):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

28/IV/15 - 12Fl. Oz. bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ home - BB: VII/2015 (2015-549)

Little hazy orange beer, small creamy irregular off-white head, little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, peaches, bit yeasty, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: some citrus, bit fruity, bitter, spicy touch, bit piny. Aftertaste: citrus, yeast, bitter touch, sweet, some banana.

The beer starts smooth and crisp. Hints of herbs in the background, nice and bitter, not too floral. Hints of grain, hints of worth, but fresh and nice. The juniper is far in the background, the rest of the beer not too intense. Sad.