Rock's Flying Service Pale Ale
Hogback Mountain Brewing in Bristol, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.71
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at the cookout on MV. This one gushed a little. Pours clear amber-brown with a creamy, off-white head. The aroma holds toasted malts, pine, caramel. Light to medium sweet flavour with more toasted grains, dry caramel, pine, earth. Light to medium bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Finishes with more toasted malts and caramel. The bottle might be a little past its prime, but overall the beer seems like kind of an old-school interpretation of the style. So so.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a semi-dark burnt orange ranging close to brown color with a one finger white foamy head that formed rings of lace around the upper rim of the glass. A bit little darker than expected for an APA.
The smell starts off with an earthy tobacco sweetness allowing a nice dried pine backing up the aroma.
The taste was basically the same. Dried tobacco aftertaste leading into the same finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a decent sessionability about it. Carbonation feels good as an APA.
Overall, I dig it as an APA. But it definitely has a lot of earthy to tobacco aroma going on, reminds me of that 1890 IPA (by Freedom’s Edge [Wyoming brewery]) I had when I was out west. Good beer for the most part, can’t find fault.