Arcadia Battle Creek Special Reserve

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: English Pale Ale
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

Pours a cloudy golden colour with a ridiculously large head. Way over carbonated, mouthfeel is creamy, thick and basically over the top. Aroma is floral, its hard to distinguish a lot of different flavors because of its intense carbonation. Fruity, very dry.

Large frothy slowly dissipating white head with some cloudy amber beer underneath. Aroma of grain, grassy hops, citrus and sweet malt. Heavily carbonated body of caramel, citrus, toasted grain, noble hops with a dry finish. A little bland but ok.

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at Flanagan’s in Appleton, Wisconsin. Pours a hazy dirty orange amber brew containing particles with a thick and lumpy off white head. Aroma of roasted caramel malt, some grassy and citrus hops, a touch of dried herbs and light brown sugar. Taste is metallic, very acidic with a tart caramel flavor. This could be an infected bottle due to the high carbonation and dark particles. Willing to try and rate again.

Drank at a Battlecats game in 2003. For baseball park beer, pretty good stuff. Basic run of the mill, Bud equivalent, but with enough malt and hops to provide some decent "real" flavor.

Over carbonation produces a huge foamy head and negative influence for the taste and palate. Interesting and pleasant aroma that I couldn’t identify. Light, crisp taste with a hint of hops, but a little watery. More trouble to pour than it’s worth.

It had a very large head and was gold in color. I actually had to remove some of the head to drink this one. The taste was nothing special.

Pours a slightly effervescent golden with some small yeast floaties and a huge, over-carbonated pillowy, airy white head that takes a long time to subside. Sweet Belgian malt and candi sugar are balanced with some earthy hops in the aroma along with some floral bready yeastiness. Body explodes in the mouth releasing even more carbonation with a little sweetness before a much more bitter, earthy dryness takes over, thinning some toward an airy finish. Not really sure what style to consider this, but I’d hardly call it a special reserve.

Way too light and watery to be taken seriously. Insipid and uninviting watery, pale yellow. Virtually no aroma...I give it points for not smelling bad. Flavors are watery and distant...maybe a touch of honey and citrus. Better avoided.