Buckerfields Pandora Pale Ale

Brewed by Swans Hotel - Buckerfield Brewery
Style: American Pale Ale
Victoria, Canada

Pale amber colour with a thin white lace covering the top. Nice spicy hop nose, light caramel malt. Juicy citrusy hop nose, spicy and a bit woody. Light caramel malt. Flavour is very well-balanced. Sweet and malty up front with some woody hop flavour in the middle. Decent bitterness finishing it off. Much better than the ratings would have had me believe.

on tap-pours a thin off white head that laces and gold color. Aroma is grain/medium malt funky/barnyard, yeast? Taste is grain/medium malt, secondary/faint flat hops (Kent Golding and Fuggles, then read description which confirmed) OK/mild carbonation.

Draught at the brewpub
Golden color, nice lace. Very light caramel aroma. It has a smooth caramel flavor and a correct bitterness, but too little interest, for example the hops barely find their way through. Undaring.

Glass, 5-ounce, draught on site, savoured on April 30 2009; eye: golden, clear, slight effervescence, tiny ring of tan head, slight lacing; nose: light caramel malt, light hops; mouth: light malt replaced almost immediately by a wave of bittering hops, light grapefruit, finale where the grapefruit takes a more important place, medium body, mildly bitter, average carbonation, light astringency, grainy texture; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Verre, 5 onces, en fût, bue sur place le 30 avril 2009; œil : dorée, claire, très légère effervescence, petit anneau de mousse fauve, très légère dentelle; nez : léger malt caramel, léger houblon; bouche : léger malt remplacé presque immédiatement par une vague de houblon amérisant et astringent, léger pamplemousse, finale ou le pamplemousse prend une place plus importante (peut-être à cause de la pizza), corps moyen, moyennement amère, carbonatation moyenne, légère astringence, texture rugueuse; en résumé : correct

Pours a slightly cloudy yellow with a creamy looking head and a faint corn aroma. Definitely some anglo hops in here, sweet and corny malt but not too cloying. A tad on the thin side but not too much so, low on carbonation, though. The hops redeem this otherwise unremarkable beer, but it’s still not quite enough.

Sample at the pub. Light gold. Thin head. Thin aroma. Flavour is a bit soapy. A quiet beer. Hops build through the small glass and are stronger than the aroma led me to believe. Nice enough.

(Draught) Non carbonated. Lasting thin, white, creamy head with an orange-amber body. Nose is slightly fruity of fuggles hops. This cask-conditioned beer has a creamy mixing of crystal malt. The description of an "imperial product" is truly misleading...

Light hop aroma. Pours a golden yellow with thin head. Not hoppy enough in my mind for an american pale. Still not too bad though