Boulder Beer Pass Time Pale Ale

Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: English Pale Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

12 oz bottle purchased as a single at MDL Wine and Spirits in Overland Park, Kansas. OCT2809 printed on the bottle. Pour is slight haze yellow golden with a fluffy 2 inch off white head. Head falls quick with minimal lacing. Aroma of mild cracker grain maltiness and a touch of sweet floral hops. Some earth and mineral comes out as it warms. Overall a pretty subdued nose. Taste is grainy sweet maltiness, pretty decent shot of diacetyl and the bitter sweet floral hops. Sweet in a mechanical sort of way, not very clean. Palate is medium, low carbonation. Not terribly drinkable. I had this beer ages ago, and remembered liking it much better than this. Perhaps this was a bad bottle.

Color is a clear and bright orange. Lots of carbonation. Unstable puffy head. Clear but doesn’t appear watery. Nice smell of a slightly pale pub ale. Sweet bready malt with a hint of paleness. Mild, slightly sweet hop. Very mild and balanced. Taste is an understated pale malt with pleasant mild hops. Quite good. Not bitter at all. The pale malt is a tad chlorine-ish, but also flowery. Pretty good metallic aftertaste. It’s thicker than expected. Dry on the tongue. Dances a bit. Champagne feel to some degree. Overall it’s a nicely balanced pale ale. Not too bitter, not too pale. Pretty darn good.

A golden ale with a thin creamy off white head. A light sweet malt with cinnamon notes. In mouth, a raspy sweet nutty malt, with faint British hops, a bit cloying. At Boulder Beer Tap House, DEN, August 28 2009.

12oz bottle from Old Chicago. Pours clear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt and caramel. Flavor is pale malts and caramel. Kind of boring.

Bottle. Pours clear dark gold with a half finger tan head that leaves spotty lacing. The nose is sweet malt and earthy hops. The taste is caramel, fruit and light hops in the finish. Medium mouthfeel. Has the strange taste in the background that most organic beers I’ve had have had, yet it’s not organic so not sure what’s up with that. An ok beer in a pinch.

The color of weak tea with no head despite a vigorous pour. An aroma of very sweet fruit and caramel. Flavor is also sweet fruit with caramel and light spices. A bit of wood and malt, too. It is a decent representation of the style but not a great beer.

Pours a clear amber with a white head. Aroma of thick malt, corn, honey. Taste is similar with some malts present. Kind of thinner than I was expecting.

Pours a fading beige head with a pale amber body. Aromas of malt, mellow hops, and a hint of cabbage. Flavor is bread, citrus hops, almost tart.