Pale Ale

Bottle at home in London. Pours clear, vibrant gold with a small, white foam head. Crackery pale malt nose, some straw, ripening orange. Light to medium sweet flavor, some bready pale malts, bit more straw, some orange, faint honey. Light to medium bodied with average, smooth carbonation. Very mellow pine and straw finish, some semi-sweet bread, some more lightly toasted straw. Very, very drinkable stuff. Not overly bitter, and well balanced.

568 ml bottle. Pours a copper color with light head. Aromas of malt and light citrus hops. Similar taste with a bit of honey and some pronounced bitterness to finish. As with several others, a nice beer but not a great beer.

This is a malt-driven pale ale with a combination of citrus and stone fruit notes on the nose, plus honey and a little caramel. There’s less floral boquet than in the more flamboyant pale ales. On the tongue there’s a really nice, solid malt flavour which gives way to slightly bitter grapefruit. The palate is very creamy and yet the result is still quite refreshing.

Bottle, thanks to Aaron. Pours a buttery yellow gold with a small white head and ok lacing. Aroma is pine, a bit of citrus, and a faint basement smell. Taste is dry, not sweet at all, pine and a bit of malt with a medium bitter finish.

33 cl bottle at 3 Små Rum, Göteborg, on July 12, 2012Clear golden color, white head. Honey, sweet, fruity scent. Sweet, berry, sugary, honey taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium low bitterness. Nice, fresh, sweet.

Bottle from thedrinkshop.com. Orange golden color with small white head. Malt, floral hops, grapefruit in aroma. Taste, grapefruit, malt, floral hops. Floral bitter finish. Drinkable beer.

0.33l bottle from beermerchants.com This one pours a really great looking honey-golden body, it's light cloudy and filled with unfiltered small particles. It also has a great looking dense and almost creamy looking white head. The aroma is mild fruity. I get peachy hops, hints of pine cones, strawberries and some malts. Not extreme but definitely not bad. It has a nice soft and gentle texture in the mouth, almost creamy-fizzing carbonation level. Flavors are mild hoppy, some barch and branches. It feels really refreshing and it's scary easy to drink. I could probably have been happy just drinking this all day. A tasty little one from down-under! 26.05.2012

Brown 33ml bottle given to me by my wife after a shopping trip to Birmingham (England). Best before 26 Aug 09, drank 13 Jun 09, poured into a Hougaerdse DAS branded tumbler. Orange hue to it, a true amber colour I suppose, very little head though. Left the sediment in the bottle, so the body of the beer was clear and you could see the bubbles rising through to the top and settling. What head there was produced lacing as I drank down the glass. My nose isn’t what it used to be, or this beer had very little aroma. Some yeast hints and maybe hops too, but not much of either. Spritzy feel and taste to it, not overly hopped, but the hops were the driving force in the taste stakes. Had I been given it in a blind tasting I would have said it wasn’t the finished article, not fully fermented, green. However that is the style this brewery likes to produce and it makes a pleasnt change to have something like this now and again. The 5.2% ABV suits it, and sits happily within the effervescence of the beer. Not sure I could drink a lot of these in a row, a bit gassy for a session beer and I can’t help thinking it is going to carry on fermenting inside me.

Bottle: Deep golden, hazy , small white foamy layer, lazy carbonation, moderate piney-hoppy nose with a fruity-malty background; dryish bitter-sweet flavour, light to mediium bodied, a bit fizzy; lingering dry zesty and malty finish. Fine Ale…