DogTown Pale Ale (Old Recipe)
Lagunitas Brewing Company in Petaluma, California, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.71
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Medium amber malty American pale ale.
Admin Note: This version was brewed until 2009/2010. Lagunitas created a new recipe and labeled in "New Dogtown Pale Ale", but recently they dropped the "New". This entry is only to be used for old DogTown ratings from 2009 and earlier.
Admin Note: This version was brewed until 2009/2010. Lagunitas created a new recipe and labeled in "New Dogtown Pale Ale", but recently they dropped the "New". This entry is only to be used for old DogTown ratings from 2009 and earlier.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@GBBF2011. Slightly hazy goldeny amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, floral and caramelly notes with some slight earthy and yeasty notes as well. Flavour is rather similar. Balanced and refreshing, but nothing really special. Good APA though.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Aug 2011
at 03:47
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
On draft @ Portsmouth Brewery on a guest tap. Served in a pint. Slightly hazy gold. Small head with very light lace. The aroma is sweet and floral. It is light to medium bodied and has a pretty bitter and balanced malty taste with really good carbonation across the tongue. It tastes like you are drinking a bouquet of flowers and fruit. Not terrible but not something I would ever buy again. I don’t want to drink flowers in my brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jul 2011
at 18:28
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
This is a good one. Quite hoppy with a light sweet malt structure to keep it going. Citrus and light molasses. Really nice. Not over the top. Finish with medium bitterness. Good.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2011
at 15:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Great pale ale. On tap at Rattle n Hum. I typically don’t thrill over standard pale ales, but this fella stands apart from the pack, perhaps because it is much hoppier than its peers. Anyway, pours a mild copper hue with a fine white head. Nose of citrusy hops. Flavor is heavy on the hops with a some malt thrown in to offset. Nice, bitter finish with a sticky aftertaste. Delicious.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2009
at 10:07
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours deep gold into shaker. Bright white head with good retention recedes to skim surface and hug rim. Fruity hop aromas. Thin with slight pine up-front and middle and lasting grapefruit finish.
Tried
on 13 Mar 2009
at 22:17
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
aroma is sour wheat, sawdust and slighly acid. appears amber, small white head, flavor is "homebrew" like. sawdust, slight fruity notes (peach or apricot), kinda blanced mid, but strong hops.
Tried
on 18 Nov 2008
at 16:35
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle. Filtered golden-orange color with a nice frothy head. Sweet piny aroma. Spicy, earthy hop notes, with a somewhat watery malt base. Lemony finish, certainly a healthy hop bill. I don’t find the taste of this beer particularly pleasing. Sub par for Lagunitas.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2008
at 19:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to ilovedarkbeer. Solid and strong pale ale, that really blends the lines between a regular pale and an IPA. Pours with a white fizzy head with a clear color that can best be described as scotch with a dash of water. Hops and hops and hops in the aroma, both spicy and dank, with some light caramelized malt. Taste is very sweet with melons, pears, and apricots. Water like mouthfeel, lightly fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2008
at 23:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
on tap-pours a thin white head that laces and amber color. Aroma is grapefruit. Taste is nice grapefruit, medium malt-caramel. Bitter then offset by sweet. Mild/minimum carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Sep 2008
at 20:28
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle at Gavlen Bar, Copenhagen. I wrote down it was Pale Ale at 6.4%, but the label was different. Pretty sure it is this. Drank with Reakt sat at the bar and the two of us just stared at the beer in wonder. Gold, slight haze. Ang warned me this was good and it is. Wow. The hop, intense, really flavourful hop. Decent pale malts. Sherberty hop finish. Automatically one of my favourite all time US beers. Stunningly well balanced. Creamy in mouth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2008
at 09:29