5 Barrel Pale Ale
Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.60
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Care for some hops with your hops? Before we ferment our 5 Barrel Pale Ale, we strain it through a bed of 'em. Then while it ages, we add even more. We like how this gives the beer a fresh, lively finish. We like hops.
As we go about refining the recipe for each new beer, we brew up just five barrels at a time. That's exactly how we arrived at this pale ale -- so that's what we named it. Plus, it sounded a lot nicer than Giant Vat Pale Ale.
As we go about refining the recipe for each new beer, we brew up just five barrels at a time. That's exactly how we arrived at this pale ale -- so that's what we named it. Plus, it sounded a lot nicer than Giant Vat Pale Ale.
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4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
A grandiose thanks goes out to mtoast for this special brew and for the locale! Had the pleasure of sampling this at the 7/9/2009 Pittsburgh RB tasting extravaganza (PGHRBEXT) at the Sharp Edge Creekhouse, again courtesy of mtost. It will be a long time, if ever I see a spread of bottles like I did there. I am not good enough for the beers that were that we served! For example, how about this beer; 5 barrel pale ale! Pale lager appearance, no visible carbonation. Typical light yeasty beer aroma. Taste is a little odd and brash. Has many ale attributes fer sure. I think I detect a little leather on the palate. Finish is fairly light, not bad overall!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2009
at 10:31
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours a lightly hazy copper, with a substantial, soapy lace - nice aromatic hop nose (peppery, herbal), sitting on top of a bready malt base - the flavor has a peppery hop kick up front, followed by some semi-dry, crackery maltiness - gets a little herbal and almost minty near the end - quite refreshing and tasty - an underrated pale.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2009
at 23:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright orange-amber color with a small white head. The aroma was sweet, tangy and lightly peppery with a fruity hop undertone. The flavor was spicy, tangy and fairly full of fruity hops with a lingering nutty malt base and a peppery finish. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2009
at 14:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Amber with a lasting white head. Malty aroma with a pine note. Sweet malty flavour with pine hop flavour but not enough bitterness 6-3-5-3-11
2010 re-rate: Noted some peach hops and better bitterness
2010 re-rate: Noted some peach hops and better bitterness
Tried
on 30 Jul 2009
at 01:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small white head. Has a malty hoppy aroma with some hints of caramel. Sweetish malty fruity hoppy flavor with some hints of caramel. Has a sweetishfruity malty hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2009
at 15:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 355ml.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wood, yeasty fruit, yeasty spicy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (050808)
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2008
at 10:10
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from GBBF 08. Amber, thin beige head. A little bit of acidic nettle? Not a great pale ale, some toffeeish malt, but I’m not a big fan of these acidic nettle hop beers. Bit dull.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2008
at 11:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home (one of my 60 bottle GBBF haul :-)) ... nice copper ... odd something and a little hop ... little sweet mellow fruit ... floral hops ... decent balance but like maeib says nothing special
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2008
at 14:38
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Clear amber with medium beige head. Sweet fruity aroma with caramel and hoppy notes. Sweet flavor with grassy hops. Ends bitter.
Tried
on 06 Aug 2008
at 05:46
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12oz bottle -pours a big rich to rocky off white head and hazy gold/amber color. Aroma is sweet caramel/pale-light/medium malt, secondary citrus/floral/spicy hops. Taste is a bit thin pale malt-some caramel, secondary floral/earthy/tea leaves/metallic hops. Much is OK but the detractors show up more, the further I get in. Thanks to chesky-SD via Joe-jwc215 for the trade.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2008
at 14:29