Beer For Lounging
Off Color Brewing in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating|
Score
6.66
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Beer for Lounging revolves around the balance between bread crumb malt and subtle hints of grapefruit, orange rind, and pear. A dry finish and moderate alcohol content makes this the perfect companion to your next lounging activity.
SECRET TECHNIQUES
Most pale ales get most of their hop flavor from dry hopping (or adding hops directly to the fermenting vessel). A full range of hop essential oils (flavor intensive natural oils) are transferred into the final beer when the hops are added to the cool beer. Among these hop oils is myrcene (pronounced mehr-sen), which is the most potent of all hop oils and is responsible for freshly cut grass flavor in dry hopped beer.
Beer for Lounging utilizes a method called hopbacking, which runs hot, but not boiling, grain sugar solution (or wort) through a bed of whole cone hops. The hot wort removes almost all the myrcene oil, which volatilizes at 147F. So only the more subtle hop oils carry through to the final beer and leaves out the lawn clippings.
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blackflag321 (2817) ticked Beer For Lounging from Off Color Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pour is a clear copper with a large white head. Aroma is a slight grapefruit hop with some bready malt. Flavor is a lightly sweetened caramel malt with some chewy bread note and a minor bitterness at the end. Pretty good typical American pale ale.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Beer For Lounging from Off Color Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
16oz can from the brewery. A pinch odd for the style. Earthy, deep malts. Some pleasant bitterness, but seems faded out, past its prime. Sort of has some UK ale tendencies, but the odd lemony, earthy hop tone doesn't work for me. Drinkable, but not one I'd get again.
deyholla (22727) reviewed Beer For Lounging from Off Color Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Can at Rossi’s. Pours a clear gold with a slight yellow hue and a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has pine and grass with a bit of citrus rind and a touch of biscuit underlying. Flavor has earthy grass and citrus with a bit of pine and a touch of biscuit backing.
andyhwcinc (2108) reviewed Beer For Lounging from Off Color Brewing 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Enjoyed at home on a bitterly cold Saturday in March prior to moving. Appearance is a lightly cloudy gold with medium white head. Taste is lightly bitter but also smooth, there is a light touch of tea which is nice. This one is pretty good but nothing exceptional, which is fine, it's a beer for a mood and that's all good.