Humming Ale
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Special Out of Production|
Score
6.88
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To commemorate an important milestone in Anchor Brewing’s long history, a special ale seemed appropriate. Having found and experimented with a very rare and unusual hop variety called Nelson Sauvin, we knew that its unique character would impart a wonderful flavor and aroma to a pale ale brewed especially for the occasion: Humming Ale.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 11/11/11
Aroma: The nose is grassy hops, some yeast, bread notes, and just a drop of citrus fruits
Appearance: Pours a mostly clear caramel-orange with a thick, frothy white head, and heavy lacing
Flavor: The taste is light-medium sweet, citrus and malts, with a full grassy bitter hop presence to it
Palate: The body is medium, but leaning full for the style, with an easy drinkability, and a nice dry finish
Overall Impression: This is a pretty solid brew. It combines a nice hop presence with some sweetness, and a good drinkability. It somehow manages to remain quite easy drinking, despite being fairly bold for the style. Sure, it isn't a crazy offering, but it shows how you can take a beer and just make it really well to style. I'm a fan.
Aroma: The nose is grassy hops, some yeast, bread notes, and just a drop of citrus fruits
Appearance: Pours a mostly clear caramel-orange with a thick, frothy white head, and heavy lacing
Flavor: The taste is light-medium sweet, citrus and malts, with a full grassy bitter hop presence to it
Palate: The body is medium, but leaning full for the style, with an easy drinkability, and a nice dry finish
Overall Impression: This is a pretty solid brew. It combines a nice hop presence with some sweetness, and a good drinkability. It somehow manages to remain quite easy drinking, despite being fairly bold for the style. Sure, it isn't a crazy offering, but it shows how you can take a beer and just make it really well to style. I'm a fan.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Nov 2011
at 14:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Deep golden with medium off-white head. Aroma is malt, hops, citrus and a little caramel. Flavour is malt, citrus, little caramel, Nelson Sauvin hops, little peach, little pine and medium bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2011
at 22:18
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours golden amber with white head. Nose/taste of bready woody caramel malt, floral notes and tropical fruit. Slight dry peach and resin in finish. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2011
at 13:37
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottled 355ml (BZ, BB 07/2012)
Slightly hazy deep golden color, big cloudy white head. Lychee, watermelon, citrus in the nose, maybe not the most typical NS aroma. Light to medium bodied. Fruity ale with quite light pale malt base. Grapefruity bitterness and long aftertaste. Simple but bitter.
Slightly hazy deep golden color, big cloudy white head. Lychee, watermelon, citrus in the nose, maybe not the most typical NS aroma. Light to medium bodied. Fruity ale with quite light pale malt base. Grapefruity bitterness and long aftertaste. Simple but bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2011
at 12:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ home. Clear golden orange appearance with a creamy, white head. Toasty, nutty malts, grapefruit, organic hoppy nose. Grapefruity, slightly resiny, organic hoppy, toasty malty flavor with some grass notes. Very nice, enjoyable brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2011
at 17:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Light copper colour, firm white head. Aroma of malts with pronounced Nelson Sauvin. Floral, fruity, goose berries, pine, light passion fruit. Flavour lightly sweet, nicely bitter. Again the fruitiness and floral tones. Malts fade to the background. It feels rather thin, light bodied. Finish moderately bitter.
Draught @ Café Samson, Nijmegen
Draught @ Café Samson, Nijmegen
Tried
on 15 Sep 2011
at 18:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle from Country Club Liquors. Nose is very floral, grassy, with a sweet honeycomb hint. Very lightly hazy yellow with a medium, pale yellow head. Flavor is moderately bitter, with ints of sweet and some caramel hints.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2011
at 13:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle, sample at GBF 2011 cons 2011-09-02 AP: pilzner AR: honey, grass, pine F: pale pine, apricot, dough, goose berries
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2011
at 14:42
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at Haket during Gothenburg Beer Festival 2011Sampled on Friday September 2, 2011Clear straw yellow color, white head. Fruity, citrus, grainy scent. Fruity, malty, hoppy taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2011
at 13:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Orange yellow beer with a medium and blond head. Aroma is freshly hopped, mangos, tropical fruits, lychee, fructose sweetness and some pine forest; very tastefull aroma. Taste is nicely balanced, and not so sweet than aroma promises. Smooth maltyness, fructose sweetness, tropical fruits, grapefruits and pine needles, bitterness is first hidden, but it get stronger and stronger and dries the mouth nicely. Nice to drink, smooth and pleasant. Tropical fruity, quite sweet beer and not so bittery, very tastefull; upgraded, restrained, more sweet "trendy" version of Liberty Ale.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2011
at 10:52