Pick Axe Pale Ale
Tommyknocker Brewery in Idaho Springs, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.50
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Easy drinking, classic, golden pale ale brewed with Chinook, Nugget, Amarillo, Columbus, Summit, and Willamette hops
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8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a cloudy burnt orange with about 4 fingers of thick white head. Aroma of citrus hops and caramel. Taste is light bitter and light sweet. Lots of citrus with a little dash of caramel. Full bodied with a creamy texture. Lively carbonation and a long finish. Overall, very good. I could drink this every day.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2012
at 20:47
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tap @ the brewpub, Idaho Springs. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma of light malt, toast, grassy and citrusly hops. Taste is much like aroma, alittle weak, with malt, caramel, light grassy and citrusly hops. Thin to medium body, soft carbonation. 040312
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2012
at 11:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled@GBBF2010. Slightly hazy pale reddish orange colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, floral and also has some mild liquorice. Also some quite strong bready malts. Flavour is bready malts, crystal malts as well as some floral and grassy hops. More sweet notes appear once it warms up a bit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2011
at 00:46
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
This Pale Ale poured a clear, medium orange colour with a rocky, white head. To the nose there are scents of heavy malt, caramel, Marmite, licorice and cooked veg. First swig was smooth and under-carbonated. Almost flat. Very rich malt flavour. Other flavours include vanilla, ripe fruit and caramel. Finish is slightly oily with a little hoppy bitterness on the tongue.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2010
at 18:46
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.Clear medium amber orange color with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, wood, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus - orange, pine, dusty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100812]
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Aug 2010
at 13:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from GBBF 2010. Hey it’s an English Pale Ale!!!! Well it has some earthiness on the aroma which could be English hops. They must have used a lot of EKG to get that much good earthy grapefruit into it. Lovely though, that is what EKG can be, but most brewers are too afraid to use that amount in the UK. Still it’s an American Pale Ale surely? Oh well. Given it blind that is what I would put it down as. Some good bitterness on the finish, I just love the hops though. Stunning symphony to Bramling Cross and EKG. And not harsh on the carbonation either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2010
at 10:43
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle. Hazy, golden bronze color. Oily, thin head. Fruity, with some English qualities. Medium bodied, the alcohol is well hidden in the mild, soapy bitterness. Even so, the strength is a tad awkward for the style, sometimes a little too brash. Probably pretty nice fresh at the brewery, but after months in the bottle it isn’t that exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2010
at 23:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 fl oz bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours clear and golden amber with a fully gone head. Aroma is sweet, caramelish and slight fruity. Solid hoppy, pine, grapefruity and peachy. Dry wooden and dense caramelish. Bitter and sweet malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2010
at 13:10