Bayhawk CPA (California Pale Ale)

Brewed by Bayhawk Ales
Style: American Pale Ale
Irvine, California USA

Pours a hazy orange with a medium head. Aromas of citrus, soap, grass and oddly sour. Not sure if this is a bad bottle, but the taste is very sour and funky. Took 2 drinks and poured the rest down the drain.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized off-white colored bubbles that were long lasting and left behind a hazy with floating particulate with suspended carbonation light brown colored body. There was a lot of sediment in the bottom of the bottle such that when mixed with the rest of the beer in the glass, the color changed to a dark orange brown with even more floaties in it. The aroma was hoppy and soapy. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and mediumly tingly at the very tart finish. The flavor contained too many notes of tartness to get past. Not one that I would likely buy again. Way to tart for a pale ale.

22oz bottle-pours a retaining white head and hazy yellow/gold color. Aroma is bready/caramel light malt, some sour fruit, yeast. Taste is bitter/metallic hops, sour lemon, light malt. Perhaps out of date. Thanks jwc215 for sharing this one.

22-ounce bomber. Quite the gusher. Big headed. Orange hued. Crisp, sharp palate. Snappy citrus and a healthy dose of acidity was kind of interesting, but there was a musty off-flavor that I did not really care for. Hops were citric, piney, grassy and sour. Mild bitterness. Malts were unexciting and muted. Very little sweetness to speak of. Overall, it had some nice sour-tart things going on, giving it some charisma, but it was a little rough around the edges.

22oz bottle. Pours cloudy amber with a moderate white head, decent retention, good lace. Smells nutty malty and slightly grassy hoppy. Tastes malty and nutty with a good dose of grassy hops, slightly, slightly sweet. Medium body, good carbonation.

Bottled. An unclear orange beer with a lazing orangey head. The aroma is slightly acidic with notes of fruit. The flavor is both sweet and acidic with notes of fruits - especially peaches as well as dusty hops, citrus, and pineneedles. The body is thin. Seemed off.

From big bottle. If you just look at this one when poured, it’s beautiful. Pours huge head that takes forever before dissipating -- like over half the glass no matter how slowly it’s poured. This could be a good or bad sign depending. Read on. Plan to wait a while. Seriously, like 15 minutes for it to dissipate. Maybe it got shaken up along the way somewhere? The head is so thick that it looks like a rootbeer float. The ale itself is a beautiful cloudy amber (no floaties in my sample). One of the most beautiful looking PAs I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, one taste and it’s clear that something is off here. Flavor is extremely sour and tart -- like lemon juice was added. It is crisp, but far too tart for a decent PA. I might pour the remainder. Clearly this one is the result of a severe bacterial infection. I’m not impressed.

I have to admit that I was a little scared of this beer when I first poured it. The pale golden beer is very hazy with large chunks floating in it. The head is thin a white with little staying power. The nose is very sour with hints of citrus. The body is highly carbonated with a big sour flavor and hints of citrus with a slightly bitter finish.