Pennant Ale '55
Brooklyn Brewery in New York City, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.08
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Brooklyn Pennant Pale Ale '55 is a classic English pale ale, brewed with the prized Maris Otter Malt and Fuggles, Willamette and Cascade hops. Maris Otter is an old malt variety that yields an incomparable biscuity flavor. Pennant is chesnut-colored, medium in body with a hearty malt palate and smooth hop finish. This beer is a tribute to Brooklyn’s world champion baseball team. (aka Brooklyn Ale)
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4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
12 oz. bottle, pours clear dark amber with a small head. Aroma of sweet caramel / English malts balanced by light hoppiness. Flavour is pretty mild and a bit watery - English-style caramel malt, light hop characteristic and biscuit. Drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2011
at 15:23
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
PENNANT 55. On tap at Rattle ’N’ Hum, NYC on 24th July 2011. Clear copper with white vanishing head and no lacing. Yeast and touch of smoke in the aroma. Lemon citric, sweet and tangy in-mouth. Finish lemon citrus, fruit and tanginess. Zingy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jul 2011
at 12:51
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap at Il Gatto, Minneapolis. A gold colored beer. Light hops in both the aroma and flavor. Flavor is mildly bitter with notes of bread, which must be from the Maris Otter. A fine session beer, but it doesn’t bring much to the table for the $5 I paid for it.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2011
at 21:35
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Drank as Pennant Ale ’55. Pours bright orange-gold and pretty, with a fluffy head that comes and goes with calming ease. Doesn’t smell great, nor bad, just kinda like average English Pale Ale: nutty, grainy, and yeasty. My old friends Maris Otter malts show up, meaning I’m already partial to this beer. The malts are a mix of biscuits, mixed nuts, and apple cider, while the mild hops provide enough of a bitter finish to keep things moving along. Feels nice, tastes good enough for regular summer consumption...but I miss the baseball packaging. (6/2/09)
Tried
on 25 May 2011
at 18:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap. Poured a clear amber with an off-white head that lasted throughout the beer. Aroma was full of malts with a bread and grain note with a bit of light fruit and pine backing. Flavor was similar with a strong bready malt backbone with a growing pine note. Nothing special.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2011
at 19:01
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from The Bottle Shop, Canterbury. Clear copper amber colour with thick beige head. Balanced malt and hoppy aroma. Oddly a touch of marzipan on the flavour. Funnily enough I didn’t look at the style beforehand, but after one mouthfull I knew that this would go down as an English Pale Ale. It is quite English in some respects. Biscuity aroma, reminds me of a Nottingham yeast too. But this shows the difference between 2 and 6 row malts. This is so much more tasty. A tasty English style beer.Good and full in mouth too.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2011
at 09:50
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Draught at Amberjack Tap House, Surrey, BC
Amber color, creamy head. The aroma is quite buttery, caramel. Malt flavor, with light residual sweetness, a bit yeasty and just a bit too much buttery. Strong bitterness. It seems to be off.
Amber color, creamy head. The aroma is quite buttery, caramel. Malt flavor, with light residual sweetness, a bit yeasty and just a bit too much buttery. Strong bitterness. It seems to be off.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Apr 2010
at 23:10