Boat for Sale Pale Ale
Independent Fermentations in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.19
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a dark amber from a bottle. Some tropical and citrus fruit notes in the nose, soapy flavor, some cooked vegetables in the background. Okay beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Undated bottle purchased refrigerated from Hopsters Alley and drunk 3/18/16.
Huge white head is very-well retained atop a bronze-brass-golden body with a moderate haze to it.
The nose shows a slight vegetal note initially, but is mostly passing, leading to plentiful grassiness, black pepper and light biscuity malt notes. It’s fairly low on the fruitiness, thankfully there’s no heavy banana or peach, with just some dry pineapple and light green apple. A bit doughy and peppery, but clean for the most part with no alcohol noted.
In the mouth it’s got that same huge grassy astringency that BdG had. It comes on the finish and is either heavily heavily stewed hops creating a strong grassy bitterness or just intense phenolics. Either way, it’s unbalances the beer, which already suffers from a lack of supple malt texture. Just sort of dry, doughy and bland, with vague fruity esters that are pleasant enough but not enough to really keep interest. Carbonation is engaging and natural, so that’s a plus. Doughy sweetness builds up over the course of the glass, as well as the bitterness, fatiguing the palate.