Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle pour to pint. Bright, light gold with medium head. Sour bready malt Peppery, resinous finish.
ben4321 (11522) reviewed New Albion Ale 2013 from New Albion Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Location: 12 oz bottle from Sparrow, 3/4/13
Aroma: The nose is clean and light, some pine, lemon, bread, and a good amount of spice
Appearance: Pours a clear gold color with a small white head and that leaves fairly heavy lace
Flavor: The taste is similar, there's some light sweetness, light-mid hop bitterness, and a peppery finish
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a clean feel, average carbonation, and a tingly finish
Overall Impression: Cheers to Jack, I can only imagine how this beer compared to its contemporaries in the hops department. Now a days if it doesn't have 100+ IBUs we call it a malt bomb, but if this is truly Jack's recipe from 30 years ago it's pretty good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Fruity bready malt aroma. Slightly hazy golden yellow with a moderate white head. Bready, lightly sweet barley malt and light grassy hops flavor. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Quite nice, and easy to drink.
Travlr (30173) reviewed New Albion Ale 2013 from New Albion Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Interesting re-make of one of America’s first craft beers. Pours clear golden yellow color, medium white head. Aroma of white bread, pine, light citrus. Taste is sweet, bready, straw, subtle white pepper. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Capitol Beer. Pours light amber gold with a creamy white head. Light malty aroma with fruity/grassy hop. Med minus body. Flavor is quite mild. Starts with some grassy hop then light roasty malt pops up. Finish is grassy/fruity dry. Bitter enough to scare people 30 years ago? After reading a book for 15 minutes while not paying attention to what I was drinking, my brain stood up and said "good stuff". So perhaps it’s a bit subtle for those of us used to hop bombs. But it is good stuff. Rating up a bit.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clean clear gold in color with a thin white head. Aroma is of floral hops and pale bready malts. Taste is of light grains and lemony? hops. Clean and crisp with lively carbonation. As the last reviewer said... Think of this as a hopped up pilsner and its just great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Golden copper with a white head. Aroma is fruity, apple, malty, light yeast, and sweet. Medium thin body. Flavor is sweet fruity, light malts, light floral notes. Lightly bitter finish. Easy going pale. A bit surprised it is 6% abv, doesn’t taste like it. Enjoyable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Slightly hazy medium gold color topped by a medium-sized bubbly white head. Light grainy malt aroma. Subtle Notes of fresh hay and citrus hops. Crisp toasted malt flavor with dryish notes. Toasted nuts and black pepper in the mid taste. Medium-bodied yet light and drinkable. Finish is dry and bitter and the spicy hops shine here. Long dry aftertaste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours a crystal clear medium golden color with a medium sized white head that dissipates fairly quickly. The aroma is not what I expected. Lots of bready and pilsner malt with hints of citrus, floral, and grassy hop aromas with a touch of chalk. The flavor is bready pils and a sweet light sugar with a hint of grassy earthy citrus hops. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet slick mouthfeel. This was not at all what I expected it was going to be, it drinks more like a pilsner than an ale to me. I enjoyed this, it would make a great lawnmower or gateway beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Orange and sour barley malt aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Honey, lemon, barley malt and lightly bitter floral orange hops flavor. Very nice - wish I could have tried the original.