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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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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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.