Charlie and Jakes Gale Force Lager

Bottle… Clear burnt orange lager with a small, creamy, white head. Simple, pleasant, caramel/crystal malt aroma. Full-bodied with stinging carbonation. Boozy bitterness stands up nicely among all the caramel/crystal, medium-roast malt sweetness. Robust. Lengthy, moderately bitter finish.

Poured up on tap at the brewpub deep copper with thin off white head. The aroma brings up notes of orange and grapefruit citrus hops and solid malt roastiness. The taste begins with mild malt sweetness before an assertive citrus orange to grapefruit hop bitterness de-rails the malty goodness. The taste then gets nice and roasty with malts midway and to the finish. I could get used to drinking this here. Yum.

[902-20071204] Tap @ Charlie & Jake’s (Melbourne, FL). Sweet resin and pine needles aroma. Clear, dark orange red body with a quick foamy off-white head. Nice perfumey evergreen background flavour has a bit of a pine punch. Medium body nibbles at bitterness. Forceful but no more than a gust.

Name: Gale Force Lager
Date: 11/18/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

cloudy burnt orange, scant head, bits of lace, light malt aroma, sweet malt flavor, well balanced with earthy bitterness, nice caramel sweetness, lasting bitter finish,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Draft- The color was of a cloudy amber with a small head and a little lacing. There was a small amout of carbonation, but a watery palate. Flavor and aroma had a pleasant and surprising amount of hops.