Capital Prairie Gold

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Belgian Ale
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

Bottle. Very clear, light golden pour with little head. Aroma of sweet malt, belgian yeast and a little funk. Similar flavor with some spice.

(bottle) Pours clear dark gold with a medium white head. Aroma is quite yeasty and earthy with some spices (coriander?) along with pear, vanilla, and baked apple with brown sugar. Taste is pretty sweet initially with a decent amount of fruit (notably pear and some apple) with candi sugar as well. This sweetness rounds out to a more earthy/yeasty, spicy and hoppy finish, that is actually quite dry. This exhibits a great contrast between the sweet and dry flavors. Mouthfeel is medium. Not bad at all.

Gold color with a medium head. Malty aroma and a little orange. Big Munich malt taste. A little wheat and yeasty goodness. Very little sugary sweetness.

12 oz. twist-off bottle, coded lot/bottling number (1688) on the neck of the bottle, sampled in a tulip glass. L: Filtered clear copper golden with a fluffy, billowy white head that slowly settled into a thin sudsy layer. A good deal of splotchy curtain-like lace clings to the brim of the glass, helping to make this a good looking Belgian Pale Ale. S: Pepper, clove, earthy nuts and spryly tart apple and pear fruitiness, with a backing of lightly toasted grainy bread and honey pilsener malts, I thought this was pretty spot on for the BPA style. Further whiffs reveals a little herbal hop spiciness. The alcohol is barely noticeable, just a mellow peppery solvent scent. F&T: I would have liked a tad more carbonation, this would benefit from a more active carbonation, giving the light body a needed crispy firmness in the mouthfeel. Sweet toasted pale malts, hints of white sugar, turning doughy towards the end, complemented by a honey pilsener crackeriness. In the middle a mildly tart fruitiness emerges, green apples and pears, that mixes with pepper and clove spiciness. The hops are properly light in the taste, lemongrass before becoming dryly spicy in the finish. Once again, the alcohol is really not that perceptible, just a very low grade peppery, spicy warmth in the palate. Another than the inadequate level of carbonation, I thought Capital has crafted a good BPA, quite in keeping with the style, easy to drink and tasty, a welcomed new summer release from this Middleton, Wisconsin brewery.

Bottle thanks to Ughsmash. Clear gold colored body. Faint sweet candy sugar dominates the nose, body is thick and oily, and flavor is mild toast/crust, with a strange note of "fresh mold", nuts, and sugar. Strange, not exactly good, and the alcohol picked up at less than 7% was unwelcome.

Clear golden yellow with a medium quickly dissipating head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, fruit, toasted malt and some mild spice. Taste of caramel, fruit, Belgian yeast, sugar and mild alcohol. Dry finish that has some sort of stale characteristics to it. It’s not bad but I’m probably looking elsewhere next time I crave a Belgian ale.

With the first sip I kind of sat back in surprise as this was very flavorful and a different direction for this brewery. Poured a light oak color with some lacing. Aroma is full of rock fruit, cloves, citrus peel and hard candied sugar. Taste is like fresh fruit cake; a little spice, a little fruit, a little bready, and fairly sweet. It is spiced well as it really comes alive in your mouth as you drink it, almost a tingling sensation. I normally dont like sweet beers but this worked for me.

12oz bottle, courtesy of acrdz. Thanks, Mike! Pours a clear, golden-orange color; thin off-white head. Dry yeastiness, honey, and sugar in the aroma; some graininess. Medium mouthfeel: relaxed carbonation; chewy Belgian sugar, breadiness, and a basic yeast character; some mineral bitterness at the edges, balancing things out; basic, very drinkable. Medium finish: mineral bitterness, yeast, and Belgian sugars; reasonably bitter, dry end.