1500 Pale Ale
Drake’s Brewing Company in San Leandro, California, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.13
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Generously dry-hopped with Amarillo and Simcoe for a bright, piney punch, 1500 brings together orange blossom and grapefruit notes with a touch of honey sweetness. We don’t like choosing favorites, but 1500 is our perfect everyday hoppy beer.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Yellow colour with light haze. Aroma and flavour have good balance of sweet malts and fresh, green hop. Easy to drink session beer.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2016
at 14:17
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 fl.oz. bottle. Pours clear dark golden colour with a huge good lasting off-white head. Aroma of mild grassy and fruity hops, citrus. Taste of medium bitterness, grassy, citrus, peach, dry and medium bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2016
at 14:06
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
33cl bottle. Hazy orange with a medium height white head and visible carbonation. Caramel, citrus hops and some tropical fruit. Refreshing and drinkable, could do with a bit more bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2016
at 09:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at Clove Hitch Liverpool. Haze amber lasting off white head. Sherbet hop. It’s a very decent pale ale. Too carbonated. But the lemon grapefruit comes through with some balancing malt. Caramel aroma. Yes it’s ok but not a great pale ale. Caramel then bitterness some of which is carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Apr 2016
at 13:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at Al’s in San Francisco. Translucent golden orange coloured pour with a fine lasting white head. Aroma is nice resinous piney hop, light caramel malts, orange. Flavour is composed of light base grains, biscuit, pine needle hop, light orange rind. Palate is crisp, powdery, moderate carbonation, super dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2015
at 10:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz bottle purchased for less than your usual soda. Bottle purchased at Special Brews. Pours an oily yellow color with a full inch of foaming head that lasts. A full coating of foam lacing to go with it as well. So these guys are over 5000 batches now, it’s kinda cool to see one hang on for this long. I can totally see why, the beer is solid. Huge hop character through the aroma. Flavor closely matches with a grapefruit, lemon like fruit background. Piney through both. Mild citrus splash finish, and quite cool. This beer was so fine. Very tasty. Lovely. Delicious. Quite piquant for sure. Any other adjective really. I mentioned it before in my last rating of a Drakes beer, but it seems like I never really saw there stuff around this area until recently. So far all has been good, and this beer is no exception. I really tried to make this rating wordy enough to reach as many characters as this beers batch number is, but this challenge has proved much harder than I originally thought. I have a strange history of every 100 ratings or so throwing in a rating or two that rambles on for so long I have to wonder if people think it’s just plain dumb, if I earn a chuckle or two, or if anyone reads it at all. In my opinion, these ratings are for my own personal knowledge, and if I feel like making this a game of my own than that’s cool. The way I see it, it’s a semi memorable rating for a very memorable beer. 1500 isn’t so hard, one thing for sure, that’s a lot of beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2015
at 20:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pale amber with a white head that lasts pretty well. Aroma of pine, grapefruit, oranges, peach, light bread. Light bodied, medium high carbonation with a little creaminess behind. Just a little sweet bready malt, some earth, lots of fruit - as much peach as citrus - less pine than suggested by the aroma but it combines with enough bitterness at the end to keep it from being fruit saladish. Very good, wished it were a little less fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2015
at 07:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
2-4 oz bottle pour at SAVOR 2015’s Saturday night session. Yellow with off-white head. Aromas of floral and citrus notes. Tastes of same with a bit of pine. Medium-light body with a dry finish. Pretty enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2015
at 02:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
15th July 2014, pint on tap in Schooner, Sunset Beach, Orange County. Cloudy orange/golden pour with a thin white head. Plenty of hops for a Pale Ale, American or otherwise, but I am on the West Coast and they seem to like their hops to take over the beers around here. I enjoyed the brew actually, not too bitter or overridingly hoppy, just a handful or two too many. Liked the fact it was only 5.5% as I was on a mission drinking along the Orange County coastal road via Bus Route No1. Had a great day.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Aug 2014
at 04:34
7/10
Tried
on 18 Aug 2014
at 21:31