Carolina Pale Ale

Brewed by Carolina Brewing Company
Style: English Pale Ale
Holly Springs, North Carolina USA

Bottle: Courtesy of BlueDevil0206 via trade. Aroma is floral hops with light caramel. Pours an orangish-gold with a minimal white head. Flavor is lightly sweet with some caramel up front with a light floral hoppiness in the finish. A little thin and not a ton of flavor. Easy drinking, but nothing too exciting.

Pours a lightly hazy copper with a thin white head. No lace. Smell is grassy, some light herbal hops. Taste is grassy pale malt folowed by a sustained low-level herbal hop bitterness that lingers persistently for up to a minute. A nice cripsy finish. Long bitter aftertaste. Straightforward pale ale. Nothing special but an above average easy drinker and certainly the best option I’ve found on the central VA/NC border. I’ll grab these whenever I’m at Lake Gaston...

Honey colored with a thin white head. Sweet aroma. Light hop flavor but not much else. Decent beer.

Honey golden color. Nice balance between Malet and Hops. Fresh, on tap in Raliegh NC. Easy to drink.

Gold pour with uniform nitro looking head and great lace. Aroma of malt, hopcit, and fruit. Tastes malty, with a solid hopcit burst at mid palate, and a dry hop element at the finish. Solid complexity and balance, that gets drier as it warms. This is a very good EPA.

A good "drinking" beer: it goes down clean and crisp. The aroma is mild, and there is little if any aftertaste. For the price, there isn’t much out there that can top this.

The aroma of this beer was the first thing to really catch my attention, very earthy and sweet-smelling. The flavor itself starts a little metallic on the tip of the tongue, but the hops aren’t overpowering, and you get a nice return to the earthy flavor at the finish.

Not too bad. Little watery. Yellowy straw color. Thin and on the watery side flavor, but pretty easy to drink.