Appaloosa
Big Hand Brewing Co. in Wrexham, Wrexham, Wales 🏴
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.56
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Our take on the American Pale Ale. Centennial and Mosaic cosying up to each other in a rich malty body.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Tried
from Cask
at
Pheasant
on 12 Jul 2025
at 11:12
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle online from Blas Ar Fwyd, North Wales. Pours clear gold with white foam. Aroma: pale malts, biscuit, citrus, mildly floral. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter. Towards medium body with soft carbonation. It felt like this beer doesn't know if it is meant to be trad golden ale or a craft(ier) APA. It's a bit muddled.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2025
at 21:25
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Architect, Chester. Pours lemon yellow with a small foamy almost white head and good lacing. There’s floral hops and grains in the aroma. In the mouth it is sweet and smooth with a slightly creamy texture. Flavour has floral hops, citrus and malts with hints of lime and melon. A little bitterness in the finish. This is reasonable.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Architect
on 22 Feb 2025
at 00:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask, third pint. @Nottingham Beer Festival 2024, Nottingham (England). 12/10/2024 [#7.975 Global - #72 Wales - #3 Big Hand Brewing Co.] Pours clear dark golden with a minimal white head. Aroma: grain, dough and light floral hops. Taste: Light marmalade and very subtle citra. Next one, please!
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2024
at 12:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
11/10/2024. Cask at Nottingham Beer & Cider Festival 2024. Pours clear dark gold with a small frothy white head. Aroma is malt, hop, caramel, flowrrs, citrus, light tropical fruits. Medium sweetness, moderate bitterness and body. Slightly watery, soft carbonation. Likeable delicate drop.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Oct 2024
at 14:25
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cask at CBC, Covent Garden on 3rd February 2024. Pale amber with shallow, loose foam and spot lacing. Butterscotch and biscuit malt aroma. Nutty malts in-mouth with butterscotch and hints of fresh dairy cream. A buttery hazelnut kick, and a nutty malt finish. Light bodied with a smooth mouthfeel.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Feb 2024
at 19:22
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Olde Cottage, Chester. Clear golden with a creamy head. Crisp enough but mainly hoppy ale with an extremely light tropical fruitiness behind this - negligible really. Has a pale ale texture.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Dec 2022
at 17:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Hand-pulled pint at The Wrekin Inn, Wellington Shropshire on 9th April 2022. Pale golden body, took a while to clear, but it looked fine in the end, white lasting crown on top. Mini-citrus front to the nose and taste, tropical fruitiness I suppose, OK but nothing to get excited about. Had this in bottle form on 25th February 2025 and really enjoyed it, a lot more malty than the cask version I had. Score altered upwards.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2022
at 16:30
6/10
Tried
on 05 Oct 2020
at 08:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Third, cask shared with Finn at Big Hand Alehouse. Spotty lacing from a filmy layer, clear golden body. Floral hops on the nose, distant tropical fruits. Mixed fruity flavours, moments of orange, mango and herbal hops. Drying fruity end. Refreshing and moreish. (Chester 26.01.2020).
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Feb 2020
at 12:58