Barley and Hops Annapolis Rocks Pale Ale

Draft sample at brewpub. Pours light yellow with slight copper hues. Small white head, decent lacing for a draft sample. Nose is malt with slight hops. Taste is toffee and slight caramel with a good hop flavor and mild to moderate bitter. Very solid and quaffiable.

On tap at the brewpub on 4/9/07: Pours a transparent orange bronze with a thin, spotty-lacing white head. Aroma of slightly sweet pale malt with nice balance of citrusy piny hops. Body starts fairly full and semi-sweet with a decent fresh piny hop balance toward a crisp bittersweet finish. A pretty good APA.

Draft at the brewery. Clear amber colored body with a white foamy head. Oily citrus pine hop nose, slightly buttery, sweaty as well. Watery and pale/bland up front, no malt character really at all, mildly bitter over the middle, all oily hops - but not a lot of them - and no malt really, other than a slight biscuit note that shows up in the finish of all places. Mildly soapy and buttery overall... very plain, very simple, probably the worst thing you can do with cascade hops is give them no legs to stand on... this tastes like homebrew kit beer.

Draft at the brewpub. This glass came with a crystal clear yellow-tinged bronze with a thin but solid foam head. The aroma is an excellent one of citrus-flowers, sucking me right into the quaff. Then a creamy mouthfeel and a nice light hoppiness presenting itself as citrusy and slightly metallic. Pretty good American pale. (#2712, 2/18/2007)

Draft at the brewpub, July 2006. A dark yellow beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet with light grassy and citrusy notes. The flavor is sweet with notes of hops, malt, frut - especially oranges, but also citrusy notes from the hops.