Nice can art. Middle of the road dry stout. LCI

Can thx again Grumbo 2021-11-17 Uddingston AR: dried tropical fruity, lemon zest AP: hazy yee wee low, frothy wee bubbles big head F: rich carbonated, pretty bitter, grainy and dry. dried tropical fruity, lemon zest

Uklar gul farge med hvitt skum. Lukter sitrus, pasjonsfrukt. Forholdsvis lett med smak av grapefrukt og sitrus. noe tørr avslutning.

American style pale ale (APA) apparently replacing an earlier version, by a client brewery north of Oxford referring to itself as the "Original Stormtrooper". Not sure what George Lucas thinks of this, but since I am crazy about all things Star Wars: thanks Craftmember for the can, and may the Force be with this beer. Very thick, frothy, pillowy, beaten egg-white, intricately plaster-lacing, stable head on a moderately hazed 'honey blonde' beer with peachy tinge and lots of vivid sparkling rushing upwards, sustaining the head. Aroma of yellow grapefruit, lime zest, drying orange peel, spruce tips, wet toast, old bits of toasted onion from a jug hidden deep inside my cupboard and equally old and dusty lemon peel flakes from a jar, old dried ginger powder, rusk, fried sesame seeds, old frying oil, parsley, dried lemongrass, hints of brown soap, dust, gasoline. Crisp, dryish onset, some grapefruit and apple peel but low in fruitiness, 'clear' and zingy minerality from medium level carbonation but also rather metallic; slick, smooth, oily body, toasted-bitterish peanutty and cracker-like maltiness, with a drying character especially when the hops set in, making for a long, bitter, grapefruity, spicy, rooty finish, even to the point where 'West Coast IPA' springs to mind rather than just 'old school APA'. The hops add dried grapefruit peel, parsley and pine resin aspects, a touch of toasted onion perhaps, and lots of pepperiness, but the citric aspect (in a citrus peel rather than citrus flesh kind of way) maintains dominance. Like the often worn-out armor of the original (classic trilogy) Stormtroopers themselves, this APA feels very old school, in a most charming way; as stated, it carries enough grapefruity and piney hop bitterness to qualify as an old-fashioned American IPA, from a time when NEIPA was not even born yet - but this in itself is no issue to me at all, as even the pioneering Sierra Nevada version, upon which most later APAs are more or less modelled, has a comparable amount of sheer bitterness. These guys clearly now what they are doing, even if it is in someone else's kettles; apart from the Star Wars nostalgia which will always warm my heart, this is a very drinkable, entertaining and correctly made, if very old-fashioned APA, which (along with black IPA, West Coast IPA and others) seems to be one of those styles enjoying a second youth now that craft brewing Europe has turned its attention to U.S. styles and some of its brewers seem to chronologically lag behind on the pastry and hazy sweets that are taking over the craft beer world from within America. I love this kind of bold, no-nonsense 'old-fashionedness' and certainly enjoyed this Galactic Pale Ale so have a decent score for that.

Hazy pale yellow pour and a fine head Ok citric aroma Ok bitterness and a semi dry ending Also a fine carbonation level Pale malt, citric, herbal and mild fruity flavor [Can from Meny Ringnes Park in Oslo, Norway] Brewery #2317

0,3 litre Can, from Det Gode Bygg, Sandnes. Cloudy pale yellow/ Golden with white head. Malts, hops, Citrus, lemon, dry, some sweetness.

Can from B&M Bargains, Sowerby Bridge. Mildly hazy golden ale with a head. Hoppy with a good fruitiness to follow. Has a tropical citrus mix, but never gets that bitter.

A rather nice hoppy pale ale. Lots of pine, very herbal hops, resin, mint. Uneventful and not the most balanced and weird hop notes.