Pilgrim
MadTree Brewing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.61
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We are thankful for hops, malted barley, cranberries, vanilla beans and that only Pilgrim hops were sacrificed in the making of this beer.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Can: Cloudy orange with a thick beige head. Tangerine, vanilla, cranberry aroma. Taste is sweet citrus, cranberry, vanilla.....lightly toasted grain malt. Interesting flavour combination and a nice body......a little tangy.... Sort of a Pale/Oktoberfest mix. Really enjoyable.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2018
at 00:14
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Can. Cloudy pale. Smells like good beer. Taste is somewhat bitter, then a very slight odd veggie thing starts to develop in the background, but it never gets in yer face. Just some kind of odd beery thing. No real impressions of cranberries, walnuts, or vanilla beans. Perhaps that combination is that odd veggie thing I constantly detect.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Dec 2017
at 16:01
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 9/19/2017. Pours lightly hazy medium golden amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big cranberries, grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, red apple, orange zest, walnuts, vanilla, light pepper/pine, lightly toasted bread, light honey, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity hops, cranberries, vanilla, walnut, and moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big cranberries, grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, red apple, orange zest, walnuts, vanilla, light pepper/pine, lightly toasted bread, light honey, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light pine, citrus zest, grassy, spicy bitterness; and slight fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lingering notes of cranberries, grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, red apple, orange zest, walnuts, vanilla, light pepper/pine, lightly toasted bread, light honey, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity hops, cranberries, vanilla, walnut, and moderate pale malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and fairly sticky/tangy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a delicious fruited/spiced American pale ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity hops, cranberries, vanilla, walnut, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful for the low ABV. The fruit/vanilla complements the Pilgrim hops perfectly. Walnuts complement the bready Munich malts. A very unique and enjoyable offering. It all works very well together.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Dec 2017
at 19:44
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at Kraft House No. 5 during the "MadTree Brewing Tap Takeover" on 12/01/2016. Orange-gold color with a medium thin white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Short strings of lacing. Aroma of berries, hops and vanilla. Light-bodied with flavors of cranberry, grassy hops and vanilla. The finish is sweet with a vanilla and fruit aftertaste. Decent overall.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Dec 2016
at 21:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(tap) clear, light amber colour with a tall beige head; aroma of soda, nuts; dryish balanced flavour with a long, light bitter finish
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2015
at 15:37