Powder Monkey Pale Ale
Heavy Seas Brewing Company in Halethorpe, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.48
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At Heavy Seas, we brew a traditional English-style pale ale with our own East Coast twist: UK Fuggles and Goldings dominate the flavor of Powder Monkey, but has subtle notes of citrus and flower from Cascade hops added in the boil and hopback. Brass in color, Powder Monkey, like all of our beers, is well balanced: distinct bitterness and a slight malt sweetness characterize the taste. In 2010, it won a bronze medal at the World Beer Cup; in 2008, it won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival.
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6/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of Powder Monkey on 05 Apr 2014 at 11:58 - Score: 6
Tried
on 05 Apr 2014
at 11:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at GBBF 2013 - London. Pours clear gold with a light, creamy head. Doughy and lightly buttery malts abound with fine, rindy lemon bitterness. Light in body with fine carbonation. Doughy malts to finish, little else. Not altogether bad but pretty uninspiring.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Dec 2013
at 07:05
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle. Filtered orange-amber body. Thin, oily head. Probably a little past its prime, the aroma is a touch faded and bland. Toffee tinged malt tones, some English feel, but more of a 90s US brewpub feel. Pretty unimpressive, definitely glad I didn’t scoop up a six pack.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Nov 2013
at 19:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours deep amber into a Sam glass. Off-white micro head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing to coat surface. Soap and candy corn aromas. Dry with caramel and candy corn front to back. Medium length bitter earth finish.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Nov 2013
at 14:23
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Sweet fruity caramel malt and light citrusy-grassy hops aroma. Orange amber with a small ivory head. Biscuity caramel malt and mild grassy-herbal citrus hops flavor. Light body, moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2013
at 15:35
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at GBBF 2013. It pours golden amber with a small white head. The nose is sticky, floral, honey, faint citrus and hay. The taste is sweet, grainy, dough, cereal, honey, floral, citrus pith and light alcohol with a dry finish. Medium body, fine carbonation and oily mouth-feel. Forgettable. Very so-so.
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2013
at 09:39
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at gbbf 2013. Clear golden orange. Small white head. Aroma is caramel and grassy hop. Flavour is nutty slightly sweet malt forward. Very good some berry. A really nice malty beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 13 Aug 2013
at 07:35
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Harris Teeter, DC sixer ($8): Pours a copper color with a small white head. Aroma is earthy and malty. Taste is way more on the malty side. Hops take second whistle. Like others have noted, this beer has a pretty British character to it. Very drinkable and sessionable. Mild aftertaste from the British hops. Slight bitterness.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2011
at 19:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from a Kroger. Pours a clear amber color with a medium creamy offwhite head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel malts, some toastiness and floral hops. The taste is toasted malts, caramel, floral hops, a bit of citrus and berry and a bitter finish. Medium bodied. Moderate carbonation. Good beer. Surprised I haven’t had this yet given how readily available it is.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2011
at 16:30
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
How could I miss this? I thought it must be news but there are ratings on here since 2003. A slight dark tint to this otherwise pale ale. A good old hoppy pale ale experience. Had some fresh fruity hop aroma and the co2 is of a good level. Aroma goes a little metallic during the session. Moer hops coming done the pike. A little sharp hop bitter bite ont he ling finish. Wants to be an ipa but falls just short. Not bad overall beer drinken experince. better than expected.
Tried
on 29 Sep 2011
at 14:23