Pine Trail Pale Ale
Big Drop Brewing Co. in Ipswich, Suffolk, England 🏴
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol - Pale Ale / IPA Regular|
Score
6.12
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A delight for the senses, this beer delivers on all levels. Rosy floral aromas are immediate as you pour, with a light and limey citrus bite on the palate and a balanced but obvious bitterness to finish. Store and enjoy chilled.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
355mL can, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Nose brings out mineral notes, crisp biscuity malt, and some dry piney hops. Flavour is surprisingly decent for a non-alc, with a piney hop character, biscuity malt, and some toasted grains. A nice non-alc—this has a nice expression from the hops. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 30 May 2021
at 05:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours clear blond. medium small white head. Scent is weak, mild malt, and what seems like corn, though thats not on the ingredient list. Taste is sharp, bitter, thin bodied, medium high carbo. Very mild hoparoma. Very recognizable NA. At this day and age, there's so much better NA beers out there.
Tried
on 11 May 2021
at 10:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
US can, contract brewed by Great Central in Chicago. Pours a bright gold color with a fizzy, soda pop head. Smell does have some unmistakable Mosaic hops to it. Taste has a little much soda pop mouthfeel to it, but the pale ale hops are very much there. Plenty of dry bitterness. But knocking out the alcohol and some of the calories (this one says 78 calories), they don't have much of a malt backbone. That may be all right for an NA beer style. But taken for what it is, a pretty good iteration of the style. Yet again, the finish gives me an odd impression of lipstick that seems to haunt me with all NA beers.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Apr 2021
at 03:44
6/10
Tried
on 19 Feb 2021
at 16:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear golden with a short lived white head. Aroma of pine, citrus, malt and wort. Flavour is light moderate sweet and bitter. Light to light medium bodied with high carbonation. Just too high on the carbonation this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2021
at 15:41
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of mango, pine, citrus. Taste is light bitter, light saline. Bitter finish. One of the best LA beers I've had.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2021
at 07:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can at home in Hackney - picked up from Clapton Craft. Pours perfectly clear gold with a small, frothy white head. Certainly one of the better low/NA beers I have had. Lightly sweet with pleasant piney accents, pithy citrus, light rindy bitterness, sligth minerality, background pale bread. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Subtle resin in the finish, pithy tangerine and lemon. A little pine and grass in the aftertaste. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2021
at 17:08
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33cl fles van Hema. Bleekgele kleur, zepige kraag. Wort, licht hoppig en bloemig, prima te doen voor een N/A.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2020
at 21:08
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
15/11/2020. Bottle sample courtesy of SHIG, cheers. Pours clear pale gold with a small short lasting bubbly white head. Aroma of citrus, lime, flowers, grass, touch of pine. Moderate sweetness and bitterness. Light body, average carbonation. Quite liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2020
at 19:39
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Appearance - bright golden with a slightly off white head. Nose - leading with pine and lime, then caramel creeping in. Taste - pine and lime pith. A bit green and stalky. Palate - light bodied, dry and bitter through the finish. Overall - decent considering the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2020
at 17:08