Back Road American Pale Ale

Brewed by Back Road Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
LaPorte, Indiana USA

Pours a transparent golden bronze with a thin-lacing wispy white head. Aroma of some lightly citrusy hops and pale malt. Body starts fairly standard, a little sweet and pale malty with a decent flavor and bittering hop balance toward a slightly earthy bittersweet finish. An ok APA.

Bottle. Funny, this is the first time I’ve seen a brewer try to profit from a terrorist attack. Grassy hops dominate the nose with a touch of grapefruit. Clear orange with a soapy white head. Taste is bitter, grassy and piney with only a touch of fruitiness but a nice developing biscuity/bready flavor. Sweetish middle, medium body and not quite oily. Not so bad. Really need to talk to that label department, though.

Refreshing, sessionable beer. The body’s pale apricot in color and it has a well sustained head. There’s a handful of particles floating about although I thought my bottle to be reasonably fresh. The aroma is full of pink grapefruit with a suggestion of pine lurking in the background. In flavor it retains that juicy, pink grapefruit taste, the sweet grainy malt emerging to balance it out nicely. Not bad.

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Good beer. Made year around. Very fresh taste. It will keep you coming back for more.

On tap at the brewery. Quite average. Light citrus aroma. Maybe a touch grainy. Pretty highly carbonated. Grassy bitternes. Eeeh.

On tap at the brewery. Very clear and pale orange in color with a thin white layer for the head. Aroma is more in line with a cream ale, placated with honey and vanilla, and barely a trace of a hop bouquet, along with some lemons and pils malt. Nice bitter first quaff, drawing on lemon grass and pine. Somewhat light-bodied and slippery with a resonating bitter touch. Decent.

Amber with a big white head. Grapefruit nose. Overcarbonated. Musty malts, bitter grapefruit membrane flavors.
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Thanks for yet another Back Road brew BigBadBrea63~ Wow, my experience was quite different form all the others.
This APA poured a lustrous amber / copper colored body and a oversize frothy tan colored head. I picked up on many fruity notes, apples, peaches, pears, some remarks of caramel and that rustic and woodsy likeness found in many English Pale Ales. The finish is a bit astringent, a light metallic presence, but I don’t recognize why everyone is so down this APA, it’s pretty decent stuff.

Thanks again Mike!