Alaskan Pale

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Juneau, Alaska USA

Draft. Light amber color with a nice off-white head. Light tropical hop aroma. Tropical, citrus flavor with light malt. Lingering citrus and tropical. Well balanced. Medium bodied.

Bottle. Pours a lighter gold color than other Pale Ales and doesn’t taste or smell as citrusy as others as well. Not a bad beer, just not a good one. Disapointed.

Bottle. Pours a lightly hazy gold with a thin but lacy white head. Nice, full fruit and citrus hop aroma with a bit of toffee behind it. Medium watery body with medium carbonation. Lightly sweet toffee and citrus taste that gives in to a bit of pine in a crisp finish. Hoo-boy would this be sessionable.

Not your typical Pale Ale. In fact, it’s a big misleading and that’s a dissapointment. Citrusy, it’s basically a summer ale packaged as a pale ale. Weak hops and mild flavor. Dissapointing effort from Alaskan.

beer pours a beautiful deep gold with amber/orange hi-lights, with a big fluffy white head that yields slowly to glass-drenching sheets of lace. nose is also very nice - sweet toasty malt sugars rolled in orange peel, with maybe a hint of sulfer in the back. after the sweetness in the nose, the flavor is suprisingly tart and hoppy, and the body itself is rather thin and dry. sort of incongruent after the richness of the nose, but a plus for drinkability. goes down great, leaving a mellow hop glow as it passes.

Aroma of citrusy hop, perhaps a hint of pine. Tarnished brass color with a substantial head that sticks. Even a bit a lacing. Starts with a soft citrus character, decent mouthfeel, might be a hint of sweetness in the middle, but all ends well with a light persisting bitterness.

(07.31.06) 12 oz brown bottle from Liquid Solutions. No freshness date. Fruity toasted malt aroma. Poured clear deep golden yellow with small white head. Soft carbonation. Light-to-medium bodied ale that starts dry with toasted malt/corn flavors. Finished dry and clean with light bitterness. A very good drinkable ale.

This is a fantastic Pale Ale. The Alaskan Brewing Company sure does know how to make a great beer, and this is no exception. If you want a good pale, give this one a try.