American Pale Ale
Thomas Hooker Brewing Company in Bloomfield, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.42
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask, GBBF. Orange color. Hoppy blackcurrant aroma. Fairly light bodied and rather thin. Hoppy and fruity (blackcurrant). Almost oily. Long hopbiiter aftertaste, maybe a bit sticky.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can 33 cl. Golden, cloudy with a medium foamy white head. Aroma of hops, flowers and citrus. Light bittersweet with a hops and some soape sense.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Wife brought me back 5 random CT brews from sales trip. This is 1st. Pours murky orange brown. Nose is of hops, lemon, and barnyard. Taste is mildly hoppy, malty, caramel, earth, and light citrus.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Big thanks to LilBeerDoctor; a really fun trader; Pour is slightly darker than a pale ale and it has a small amount of brown in there. Smell is barely and dully hoppy. Thin creamy head. Taste is mildy bitter, a little more well behaved ale than many APA I’ve had lately. Don’t it at least slightly annoy you when a APA comes adcross like an IPA? This it is not. Friendly and accomodating thru-out the session. A beer that at least lets you know its a beer. Goes down fairly easy and this must be due to its unstated alky level; probably below 5%. A sessionable beer, that is, if yiou are an ale lover. Not as well behaved nor friemndlier than a lager. Yep per doodle, typical ale finish with a somewhat citrus bite.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle thanks to pabs311. Pours a clear amber with an off-white head. Aroma is mainly malty with notes of bread and hay, there was just a slight hint of grassy hops. Flavor is malty as well with notes of sweet bread and hay, the hops really don’t show much.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Nice and crisp APA, but in dire need of updating. This beer is on the knife edge of either being in the macro realm, meaning a low abv, mild, middle of the road, forgettable pale ale, or going a little farther outside the box and make it unique. Needs more of a citrus character and higher abv, less malt sweetness. good session beer as is, but not compared to other, better, pales
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
It pours up pure copper with than head. The aroma seems a bit aged and muted with rounded off notes of pine to go along with modest malts and crystal malt sweetness. I also get a faint hint of deep dark fruity esters that seems to compliment the experience. The taste seems like it has some age one it. I get tasty yet aged malty sweetness moving toward a grapefruit acidity tingle with carbonation and blunted pine hop bitterness. Maybe it does have some age but I still find it enjoyable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours deep amber into a shaker. Head quickly recedes to hug rim. Spicy grapefruit aromas. Sweet caramel and pine hops throughout. Well balanced but a little flat and watery.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a quickly descending head and a reddish body. Aroma is mostly hoppy with some fruits. The beer itself is kind of watery, but has the standard APA elements of hops and little bit of caramel malts. A nice session beer, but alas nothing at all that special.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Liked the look of this, hazy copper/orange with a foamy slightly off white head. Very solid and balanced aroma, spicy, citrus, piney but not overwhelming. Nice flavor, sweet and bitter, malty and citrus. Only slightly astringent finish but well balanced.