UPDATED: FEB 15, 2020 Smooth, almost creamy pale ale. Very easy to drink. This is the beer I imagine my best mate and me would sit and drink all day in a pub in Michigan, watching the NFL all day on a Sunday. Basically the American equilivant to what we do here in Australian. 

UPDATED: JUN 17, 2019 The beer has got a deep light hazy golden color with a steady head and medium body. Aroma of hops and mango. Taste of hops, pine, herbs, spruce and lemon fruits. Mild finish.

UPDATED: MAY 18, 2019 From the backlog - CONSUMED A BUNCH OF WAYS AND TIMES. Clear golden orange, white head. Pine, pine, citrus citrus, pine pine. Cascade city clean and clear.

14.02.2015, 0,35l bottle (as Founders Dry Hopped Pale Ale) sampled @ Bergen International Whisky & Beer Festival:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet grainy, wet hay, wet grain, worth, cereal, leafs, grass, nuts, caramel.Taste is kind of dry mineraly, hay, cereal, minerals, paper, weeds, dried grain, rope, bark. Medium bitterness, dry and harsh mouthfeel. Very disappointing.

From Sept 2008 I got this bottle in a trade with jwc215. Thanks Joe! It pours a hazy orange gold with a 1 finger head of foam. Great head retention and there's some lacing. The smell has notes of caramel and earthy malt and some citrus hoppiness but overall, it's lightly done. The taste has some weak malt presence, earthy and a touch of caramel, followed by a light citric hop bitterness that dominates mid palate on and through the finish. Hmm, this is a serviceable APA in taste but the overall flavours come across as very mild to me. If this was lower in abv, it would be a decent sessionable ale but at over 6%, I just expected more flavour and didn't get it. Good medium mouthfeel here and the carbonation is fairly light. Bottom line: A decent APA that looks good, smells good, tastes ok, has a pretty good mouthfeel, and is pretty drinkable. There you have it in a nutshell. ;^)

Bottle. Golden, excellent white foam. Aroma: malt and citrus, fruits and little flowers. Taste: citrus, fruits, pure, drinakable, a little sweets.

Draft at Lion & Rose. Clear amber with tall, white, lacing head. Aroma is malty, minimal hops. Pretty smooth, minimal hoppy bitterness. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

I finally found a founders beer I really don’t like. This beer is just a bland as it can get! Not much too it at all.

Aroma: citrus, malt, hops Appearance: Gold with small head. Taste: Malt, citrus, hops, bitterness. Palate: Middle body, middle carbonation

Bottle from J’s. Looks to be old I suppose. Pours a deep gold with some glowing orange notes and a finger of foam. Faint mineral and grass nose. Dry, grainy malt. Good carbonation though. Hops faded out at this point and drinks more like a dry blond. Light lingering bitterness.