Pine Belt Pale Ale
Southern Star Brewing Company in Conroe, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.83
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This handcrafted American Pale Ale is brewed in small batches using high quality American two row, choice British crystal malts, select hops and deep-well ground water from the Evangeline Aquifer. Non-filtered, never pasteurized this ale is packaged directly into cans to ensure maximum freshness for your enjoyment. This full-flavored amber ale is sure to satisfy. "Clarity is overrated."
Ingredients:
Malt: Rahr special pale, Simpsons 30-37, Crisp 45
Hops: Galena, CTZ, Palisades
Yeast: California Ale
Gravity: 1.054 - 1.011
Ingredients:
Malt: Rahr special pale, Simpsons 30-37, Crisp 45
Hops: Galena, CTZ, Palisades
Yeast: California Ale
Gravity: 1.054 - 1.011
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Canned. Poured a nice amber. Nice caramel malt blending into a tinge of piney hops. maybe the best southern star I’ve had.
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bright citrus, chewy malts, big citric bitter finish. Really blurs the line between apa and ipa. As it sits and warms the huge citrus bit dies down a bit and the cara malts come through. Pretty nice stuff.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:25
7/10
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Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:59
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Notes from March 2009 Canned beer: The world is better for it. Poured into my durable DFH rounded pint glass. An inch of falling yellowed head over a chill-hazed russet & orange body. Clarity is overrated. - Southern Star Sourdough, pepper, & pine sap. A little buttery on my nose too. Just a little bit of tangerine. Dusty, but with some carbonation. Toasty bread crust & minimal caramel initially, a little vegetably, menthol, salt. Rindy, seedy/pit bitterness & a bit of dryness on the finish. It feels a little too thick & dirty. Like running your feet through soft sand & always bumping into cigarette butts. The clash of British & American just didn't work for me either. It's missing a little refinement whether they want to admit it or not.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Nov 2024
at 19:26
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 oz can bought in St Pete, FL. Pours a cloudy bronze color with a creamy off-white head and great retention. Good lacing. Hoppy nose. The taste is a straightforward piney medium hoppy and bitter pale ale. Nothing else. Short finish. 6.3 ABV is well hidden.
Tried
from Can
on 25 May 2018
at 21:20
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can in LA - picked up in NOLA. Pours unclear orange-gold with a creamy head. The nose holds crackery malts, light pine, ripe orange. Medium sweet flavour with more crackers, white grape, graham cracker, pale grains, bread, melon, orange. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. More faded hops in the finish, some grass and pine, lots more crackery charter, ripe and jammy citrus. Definitely faded.
Tried
from Can
on 28 May 2016
at 01:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Undated 12 oz. can into a tulip. A: Deep orange pour with a short, fading head of fine bubbles. Looks hazy and thick. S: Mildly sweet pine/spruce scent with orange and honey notes. T: Bitter orange and pine suggesting English ales. Malty and a bit roasty but not exactly sweet. Well balanced flavor. M: Medium heavy body with average level of carbonation fighting through. O: Pretty good though a bit stronger than I prefer in a go-to pale. Worth having.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Apr 2016
at 18:40
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Pretty clear amber color, medium white head. Nice aroma of mixed citrus and pine forest. Taste is juicy citrus, stick pine. Very tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Dec 2014
at 13:35
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can at Craig’s. Pours amber, nose is sweet toffee, taste is light fruit, dry. --- Beer merged from original tick of Pine Belt Pale Ale on 08 Jun 2012 at 21:47 - Score: 6
Tried
from Can
on 07 Aug 2014
at 04:15
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy dark orange body under an average sized off-white head. Juicy malt and citrus hop aroma. The flavor starts sweet with the bitterness kicking in immediately as it heads to a dry finish. Almost IPA territory here.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2013
at 15:08