City Pale Ale

Brewed by City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: American Pale Ale
La Crosse, Wisconsin USA

Nice golden color,small white head that faded quickly leaving little behind.The aroma was light malt with a mild hop and fruit presence.The flavor came off as much the same as the aroma light malt and a light fruit but the hops are fairly mild IMO to mild with little to offer as far as a good PA.It’s worthy of being a decent everyday brew i guess but for that special brew where your looking for a bigger flavor....This isn’t it.Thanks to GrainbeltGuzzler for sending this brew my way.

pours an orange golden color with a thin white head. grassy aroma as well as a light hop smell, metallic tasting with a small amount of bitterness, slightly fruity but not even close to the hop profile i have found to love in pale ales...very metallic maybe i got a bad bottle.

I found this really to be not too bad. A little stringy, if that makes any sense, or grainy. But it works as an easy summer kind of beer in a regualr guy tipping a bottle and sighing, "Now this is America!" kind of way.

Not bad for a small brewery. Has little hops flavor. Nothing to make this extraordinary.

Nice amber coloring with a slightly hoppy aroma. Has a somewhat hoppy taste but I was expecting even more hops after checking out the label which shows hops overflowing from a beer mug. Not bad - but not one of the best.

Orange-golden color, fruity apple-berry hop taste wuth a sharp bitter finish, although on the mild side in all aspects.

My roomates are from LaCrosse and hold a special place in their cheese laden hearts for this brewery. But I gotta tell you, this was a bit like a macro with a few hop flowers thrown in the boil - (that macro Busch/Hamms rotten barley quality we all love so much). The hops that were present were more of a flash-in-the-pan bitterness than anything else, leaving you with that wonderful macro flavor.

After so many bland lagers in City Brewery's lineup, I really wanted to like this brew more than I did. I first had it at a beer festival and remember liking more than I did during this rating, which actually took place at City Brewery. The aroma is this brew's best attribute; hops are evident with some floral notes and a hint of apple. Amber body, good lace and a mostly disappating head. Flavor is that of burnt molasses. Not nearly hoppy enough for a pale ale, which leaves it malt dominated. Not great.