PA48 Pale Ale
Brouwbar in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.31
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed PA48 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
23 July 2020. At Brouwbar, Ghent; shared with the lovely Anke! Pours clear orange with a big, frothy, off-white head; lots of lacing. Aroma of pine resin, peanut, hard breadcrust, pepper, mango, pear, pomegrenate, ktichn herbs, biscuit, pink grapefruit. Taste has sweetish mango & pear, very apparent zestiness but not too sour; grapefruit peel & pine accent, bittersweet blood orange perhaps in the back, supported by breadcrust-like malts. Dry, piney, almost resinous hoppy finish, grapefruity, minerally. Medium body, slick-oily texture, average carbonation. As APA-like as they come, refined & refreshing.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed PA48 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
American style pale ale (APA) by this sympathetic Ghent brewpub, created during the Covid-19 lockdown and sold at the brewery at that time – which is how I got my bottle, just before it got an official label. Thick and frothy, egg-white, pillowy, plaster-lacing, firm head on a misty amber-tinged, orange-glowing peach blonde beer with strings of lively sparkling everywhere – a true beauty. Aroma initially hampered a bit by an overload of prickling carbon dioxide, but once this fades, everything opens up: dry biscuit, old crackers, stewed bell pepper, pink peppercorns, peanuts, dry grapefruit zest, dried old ginger root, fresh thyme, lemonbalm, lime peel, old dough, brown soap. Fruity, fizzy onset, sweetish but restrainedly so, hints of dried apricot, unripe peach and green pear; sharp carbonation, very minerally, through a slender, lightly oily body; dry cracker-like, eventually mildly toasty-bitterish maltiness under a long, spicy, grapefruity hop bitterness developing a light tonic water-like tone in the end, but still refraining from becoming too aggressive – thus keeping this beer firmly in the APA realm rather than switching to (old school) IPA. Classically conceived, this APA looks back to the earliest days of American style craft brewing – the great archetype, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, echoes in the background – and does so in an elegant, streamlined, accessible way. Well done.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed PA48 Pale Ale from Brouwbar 5 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
4/VII/20 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-584)
Clear orange beer, small creamy off-white head, very stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very fruity, tropical fruits, bit malty, grains. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty, nice bitterness, some tropical fruits, passion fruits, bit dank, lovely juicy notes, some grapefruit. Aftertaste: citrus, grassy, bit malty, dry, little herbal, grains, good stuff!