Bottle. Beer of the Month club. Clear amber color with a medium white head. Citric aroma with some floral, earthy and piney notes, light fruitiness and some biscuity/caramelly malt notes. A moderately hoppy flavor with a sweet malt backbone, caramel, light toasty hints and an earthy, slightly citrusy mild bitter finish with hints of metal. Medium-bodied. A decent, quaffable Pale Ale.

Darkish pour for a pale. Lots of floral hops, grasses, breads. Rated 11/12/02

Bottle. Pours a clear gold with a medium white head that laces nicely. Aroma is well balanced with crisp grassy hops and sweet biscuit grains. Flavor is similar with a sweet malt start and a nice crisp and grassy hop finish.

Pour is an orange with a small white head. Aroma is definatly hopped with some citrus and pine. Flavor is also decent with again some pine hops and a bit of chocolate malts. Finish is a little bitter and thick. Better than most.

Bottle. Pretty standard pale ale. Mild aroma with citrus and hops. Slightly sweet flavor with a malty taste.

Copper colour. Woody, slighlty piney hops meet toasty, breadcrusty malts in the nose. Light bitterness with a juicy malt character. Leans towards woodiness.

pours a gold color, with a white head. Has a hoppiness to it’s aroma and definitely with the taste. A nice beer.

Having tried the Raspberry, McHenry and Gold ale from Clipper City I grabbed the Pale Ale with a definite note of trepidation. But as I rather like pale ales in general I thought that here at least was an opportunity for redemption for the brewery. It came again in a 12 oz brown bottle. It poured a nice dark golden color with a medium sized tan head. Ok so far, but now for the nose. The aroma was by no means overwhelming, but it did contain a reasonably strong scent of grapefruit. Hmmm, ok this should be my type of pale. The flavor revealed a light, flowery grapefruit element that gave some justice to my hopes. There was a hint of malt balance, but really this beer is for the hophead, or should I say the person who will eventually be a hop head. A good intro IPA for those not yet corrupted to the cult of the hops, but for those of us who have sold our souls to the liquid glory that is alcoholic grapefruit juice, this beer can do nothing but make one long for a beer with a "Real" hop dominance. But still, I can not complain. This is a decent if slightly mild pale ale and as such does redeem the brewery some in my eyes.

A decent APA for the session drinker. Piney hops notable in aroma and in the flavor, with a touch of citrus. Beer pours pale amber with a thin off-white head. Thin body. A good choice for "rushes" of the good beer fraternity.

Lighter shade of amber with a dense off-white head. Smells of a fairly large amount of low a.a. hops, perhaps some english with a malt backbone. Strong flavour at first, both with hops and malt. Medium-bodied; Strong malt aftertaste with a very pertinent hop taste as well. Very nice, and never dull. This is one of the better APA's I've had recently, and is worth trying if you are from around the Washington area! I bought my twelve ounce bottle from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia out of the same batch as JonR888710 (see below).