Big Mountain
Alaskan Brewing Company in Juneau, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.97
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Light copper color, dry hopped with Simcoe, Mosaic and Calypso hops.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle from Total Wine Brookfield. Slightly hazy amber, thin fizzy tan head, decent retention. Aroma of pine, resin, pale malt. The taste is grapefruit, juicy, a bit of pine, pale malt. Medium bodied, mild lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2017
at 21:31
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled at CBC 2017, pours a dark gold/orange with some clumpy white head. Nose has biscuit and orange marmalade, grist. Flavor is grist, Chinese buckwheat tea, orange, soap. Dry finish.
Tried
on 20 Apr 2017
at 17:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draft. Golden/light amber body with a huge frothy off-white head. Light aroma of citrus, grapefruit, toasted grain. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Citrus dominates the taste, unlike most APAs. Juicy and watery. Easy drinking.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jun 2015
at 15:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and summer fruit aroma with light mustiness. Summer fruit and light tropical fruit flavor with light backing malts. Medium bodied. Summer fruit and light tropical fruit lingers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2015
at 19:01
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle pours with a deep copper body that has a slight haze and supports a thin near white head. The aroma offers up juicy mango and pineapple and clementine fruitiness as well as a bit of onion spiciness. The taste starts pretty juicy and fresh with a blend of tropical fruit and citrus that gets increasingly bitter to midway but stays at only timid levels. About then a modest malty base peeks out from behind the hops to give it more of that classic Pale Ale feel. I’m really liking this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2015
at 14:44
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Brewers Haven. Pours out with a huge fluffy head, hazy medium golden body. Light citrus hoppy nose, but taste comes in much stronger, grapefruit, tangy. Its that tang that lingers. Malts can be detected in the background. Very satisfying, quenching, tasty APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2015
at 18:57
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours clear copper with a foamy near-white head. Humongous citrus aroma. Nasal burn. Med + body. Flavor is hugely citrus hop (tho not grapefruit), with a little earth and definitely some roasty malt. Must be a NW pale thing. I think there’s Mosaic mixed in here. So citrus, tropical fruits and arguably pine/resin. This is damn tasty stuff. Who needs IPA?
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2015
at 19:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ home, picked up in a mixer sixer at Wilbur’s. Pours a dark golden orange appearance with a nice sized cream colored head. Aroma has low sweetness, pine, lemon, lots of grapefruit and some spice. Smells nice. Medium light body. Quite dry. Some notes of cracker in the mouth along with grapefruit, light pepper, and pine. Easy to drink. Fine APA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2015
at 19:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle: Golden orange pour with a lingering creamy khaki colored head. Tons of sheet lacing throughout. The nose is floral, citrus, and bready malt. Mostly floral hop flavors, but a little citrus and pine. A moderate malt presence to balance, very drinkable. Emptied the glass before I knew it. Solid. I’ll be buying this again soon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2015
at 21:09
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Good earthy hops and some yeast. Mild hops, and a light malt base. It is good, but there is only so much you can do with an American pale ale.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Feb 2015
at 12:38