Blackstone Brewing Company American Pale Ale

American Pale Ale

 

Blackstone Brewing Company in Nashville, Tennessee, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.61
ABV: 5.3% IBU: 33 Ticks: 20
American Pale Ale was created by California craft brewers in the early 1980s. It has medium body with wonderful floral/citrus aroma and flavor. This beer is aggressively hopped; has noticeable bitterness with hints of grapefruit and pine resulting from liberal dry hopping with American hops.
 

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6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

12 ounce bottle from Libation Station. Pours a clear amber color with a large foamy off-white head. Good head retention. Aroma of dank, resin, floral hops and mild caramel malt. The taste is sticky resin, citrus hops and sweet caramel malts. Medium bodied, slight lingering bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2014 at 22:05


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at RBWG. Pours cloudy yellow gold with white head. Nose and taste of pine, light resin, light malt and touch of apple. Lighter medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2014 at 21:04


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle - Decent citrus with a malt backbone. Clear gold with a thin head. Dry and fruity with a bitter and sweet finish. Decent APA.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Feb 2014 at 23:44


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 oz bottle courtesy of Suttree. August 2013 Week 1 notched on the side of the label. The pour is a clear golden copper orange with a crackling ½ inch off white head. The aroma is soft citrus peel, along with a bit of floral and some slightly sweet malt. The taste is the softly bitter citrus / orange peel, followed close behind by floral grass, and finishing with a husky cracker malt that carries the finish, getting a tad earthy mineral in the long finish. The palate is light to medium bodied, dry mineral finish. Nice Pale Ale, thanks for sending this my way Phil.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jun 2013 at 19:47


7
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 14

Draft. Clear amber body with a frothy, off-white head, slowly diminishing. Aroma of toasted grain, sweet caramel, floral hops, citrus, orange. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes lightly to moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery/velvety texture, soft carbonation. A comfortable, easy-to-drink beer. Sweeter than the average APA, but enough bitterness to balance that. Taste of orange and citrus, hint of biscuit and grapefruit.

Tried from Draft on 07 Oct 2012 at 15:37


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sample at Beer Sellar in Nashville. This beer is a reddish-gold color with a medium ivory white head that recedes quickly to an outer ring. Short strings of lacing. Aroma of citrus, malt and hops. Light to medium body with a mildly bitter hops character and notes of grapefruit and sweet malt. The finish is short and lightly hopped. Fairly average overall.

Tried on 29 May 2012 at 20:28


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle: Poured a light orange color ale with a nice large foamy head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma of medium citrus hops with light dry caramel malt notes. Taste is a mix between some light citrus notes with medium level of bitterness originating from the hops with some dry caramel malt presence can also be felt. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Well brewed with nice level of hops presence and not too much malt to distract from the hops.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Apr 2012 at 10:08


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

12oz bottle picked up in TN
Appearance: Pours clear golden with a big white head and good lacing
Aroma: Fruity, grapefruit, caramel and spicy
Taste: Fruity, dusty caramel and lemon
OK, pretty bland

Tried from Bottle on 14 Feb 2012 at 20:57


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Dry hopped on cask at the brewpub. Pours clear gold with a decent white head. Citrus hop aroma. Decent balance of malts and hops in the flavor. Nice dry finish. Well done.

Tried from Cask on 25 Jun 2010 at 16:47


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

on tap-pours a retaining off white head and gold color. Aroma is pine, some light malt, as it warms some orange. Taste is dry pine/lemon hops bite, secondary sweet light/medium malt.

Tried from Draft on 25 Feb 2010 at 05:56