Locale Skagit Valley: Alba
Pike Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.55
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bomber from La Bodega in Anchorage. Pours translucent gold with a slight white head. Aroma of white grapes and pale stone fruit. Not very strong, but very nice. Near med body. Flavor of white grape and that flavor of a peach where the pit was attached. Pretty dry. Decently bitter - finishing fruit/juicy, sort of. It may be underrated. A medium flavor strength that works well.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draft pour pint at the brewery. Pours a dark clear copper color with a lasting foam head. Sweet caramel malt aroma. Rating #1941. The same year M&M’s came out. Thick body, and very sweet. Too sweet. Malty finish with the lingering sweetness. Was alright.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Caramel orange with a white head. A bit of candied orange notes, light dirty earth, a bit of caramel malts, some toasted biscuit. Smooth, medium body. A very "Meh" pale ale. Disappointing but not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle, fresh, drunk 11/4/15.
Large, foamy/rocky white head shows moderate to high retention atop a clear, deep bronze colored beer with ample carbonation.
As mentioned, the aroma is the best part here, with plentiful fruitiness, a good range of citrus character, clean, but estery yeast and some grainy malts. It dosent have any heavy pine or tons of grapefruit and incorporates meyer lemon-like levity, with very light pineapple, some dank, leafy notes as well as the more typical orange rind. No alcohol noted, no diacetyl in this one.
The flavor is, just well, kind of Pike pale ale-like; that is to say, dry, husky/scratchy/grainy and quite carbonated with too much specialty malt and not nearly enough supple base malt to give an appropriate texture. Astringency problems, borderline sourness as a result and even the not-over-the-top bitterness becomes problematic when your beers are this undermalted.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Freshly tapped keg at the brewery. 10oz glass. Very pale color, moderate lacing. Clear beer. Slight vegetal hop with clean malts. Simple and dull. Low bitterness, slight fruity yeastiness in the flavor.