Pale Ale
Moosehead Breweries in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
4.92
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Moosehead Pale Ale was our first beer to be branded Moosehead. ‘Moose Red,’ as it is referred to in the Maritimes, has a recipe dating back to 1931 and has a loyal following.
A true top-fermented ale, Moosehead Pale Ale is medium bodied and fermented at warmer temperatures to impart its floral aromatics.
A true top-fermented ale, Moosehead Pale Ale is medium bodied and fermented at warmer temperatures to impart its floral aromatics.
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5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can at the Maple Leaf, Covent Garden (Palace v The weed) - pours almost clear gold with a white head and lacing. A suggestion of vague citrus fruit, sweet malty base, light to medium body, subdued hoppy bitter close. Basic stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Mar 2019
at 12:22
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
16 oz can from Boise Co-op. Medium golden pour with nice one finger fluffy head. And that's about as good as it gets. Grainy aroma, wet paper notes.Taste is more of the grains and paper, with a hint of cooked vegetables. Not much different from a lager. American golden ale? not sure if that fits either. Not that good...
Tried
from Can
on 11 Aug 2018
at 08:40
3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Pour is a clear copper with a large white head. Aroma is really hard to come by. Some sweet malt and not much else. Flavor is again almost nothing. This is just like fizzy copper colored water. When I saw the overall 7% score I thought it can't be that bad, well it's not bad per se, it just taste like nothing.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2018
at 23:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 2/23/2018. Pours crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 1-2 fairly dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of lemon, pear, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with good strength. Taste of cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of lemon, pear, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, lightly toasted biscuit, lemon, pear, pepper, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero astringent hop flavors after the finish. Moderately crisp/clean finishing. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth and moderately bready/grainy/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a very good American blonde ale. All around nice robustness and balance of pale malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the modestly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Was expected an APA when I bought it. Probably the same malt/hop bill as their lager, with ale yeast instead. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2018
at 01:19
3/10
Tried
on 20 Apr 2018
at 15:41
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can at Maple Leaf, Covent Garden. Nul aroma. Golden. Thick fluffy white head. Low key taste: sweet and sour. Industrial. Light bodied. Watery. Fizzy carb. Abrupt finish. Pretty pants.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Sep 2017
at 08:28
4.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 5
Can at Hair of the Dog, Phrom Phong, Bangkok. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a thin broken white head. The aroma is light dry grainy malt. The flavour is light bitter with a light mineral earthy aspirin malt, super light hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with average carbonation. Reminds me of that joke about that difference between Budweiser and being in a canoe!
Tried
from Can
on 01 May 2017
at 11:44
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
341ml bottle. Clear, golden colour with small to average, fluffy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Grainy, strawy aroma, hints of burnt white bread crust. Taste is grassy, hoppy and strawy, grainy malty, a touch of corn; watery and monotonous.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2017
at 16:15
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
355ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours clear gold with a large white head. Aroma is bread, honey, grain. Taste is watery, light honey, pale malt. Akin to a rubbish pale lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Mar 2017
at 14:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
355ml can into glass. From Canada but for the Chinese market. Clear golden amber beer with fulsome white head. Nose is understated fruit and bread. A few bubbles. Flat mouthfeel, A bit of malt, a hint of hops (not much). Slight touch of grain at the end. Ordinary, old-fashioned but drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Feb 2017
at 01:50