Buzzards Bay Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Just Beer (fka Buzzards Bay Brewing)
Style: English Pale Ale
Westport, Massachusetts USA

12 oz. bottle. Pours a beautiful clear coppery brown with a whitish head that disppeared quickly. SLightly sweet aroma. Very pleasant malt and honey flavors with some hop bitterness. Bitterness increased as the beer warmed.

poured a deep brown color with a white head. It had a yeasty aroma with some pine notes. A sweet malt flavor with pine like hop notes. Real smooth and full.
Earlier Rating: 11/24/2003 Total Score: 3.7
Pourede a rich amber color with a white head. Aroma was consistant of malts/bananas/hops. Taste was on the week side. Had some hoppiness to it, but a watered down finsih.

Bottle (beer of the month club): Clear copper colored body with a small, bubbly white head that quickly dies. The aroma is pale grainy malt, a hint of honey, subtle earthy/grassy hops, and a tiny hint of diacetyl (well within limits). The taste is honey grains, earthy hops, very light caramel, a touch of sweet butterscotch, and a mild stale malt flavor. Light bodied, moderate carbonation, finishes medium dry with lingering stale malt and grassy hops.

Sweet-flowery aroma with hints honey. A bitter pale ale with a boring flavor. Appearance was inviting with dark reddish hue. Palate was soft and creamy with a harsh finish.

light copper color, thin fizzy head. sweet malt aroma punctuated by carmel and earthy hops. light sweetness balanced by mild bitterness. finishes with tangy hops.

From beer month club. Green label. Not much head or lacing, subtle aroma, orange/rust color. Drinks very smooth. Surprisingly bitter. My wife says it tastes like canned peas. I disagree. Hops and malts are balanced well, although a bit of malt aftertaste is present. Alright.

Bottle, from Julio’s. Ok nose, sweet. Apple, caramel, orange. Clean brownish orange color, good head that faded quickly to a ring. Bitter flavors, fruity. Grapefruit, apple, soapy, metallic. caramel, grassy. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel, bitter finish. Easy to drink, has a little bite.

English bitter masquarading as an APA. Caramel malting, but not much of a backbone to it. Surprisingly assertive bitterness, with a distictive English-flavored hopping... Some unpleasent astringency in the finish. Just alright.