Pale Ale

Draught at Worthy Kitchen, 5/21/16.
Fairly hazy, light amber-golden body is topped by an immediately failing white head. No carbonation visible. Doesn’t look like much....
And the nose is just weird. Not exactly flawed or straight up unclean but also nothing like a hopped APA should smell like. Earth, some light plastics, strange phenols and strange dried wood-like notes. Maybe a touch of gasoline. Passing notes of citrus and lightly spicy, vegetal hoppiness but just too off-putting.
Thankfully, as is often the case, whatever went wrong aromatically, doesn’t manifest itself in the flavor. Quite dry, but with very light honey and cracker malt notes for balance and more sugar emerging on the end. Though there’s not much to balance, as this is a heavily juicy, low bitterness pale ale redolent of the New England style with only slight grassiness, spicy, vegetal notes and just a touch of bitter grapefruit on the end. Some very strong hard water characteristics and low carbonation, slightly loose at points. Maybe just a touch of the weirdness from the nose.

Draft at Worthy Kitchen for $7.00. Color is hazy orange with lasting head. Served very cold, frozen. I’m surprised no ice was on the snifter. Aroma is loads of fruit, peach, pineapple, guava purée.

The flavor is loads apron loads for fruit. Again, peach, guava, some dirty malts. Sugar. Maybe more sugar then necessary. Ends on sugar. Body is medium with lasting fruit.

Hazy dark orange. Dark orange. It smells good but there’s like this rubbing alcohol aroma at the finish. Thick mouthfeel. Sweet. More of that strange ethanol flavor. Sweet finish. Decent.