Cottonwood Low Country Pale Ale

Brewed by Carolina Beer Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Mooresville, North Carolina USA

Name: Low Country Pale
Date: 02/01/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Woods on South

Appearance: hazy pale yellow, frothy off white head, drippy lace,
Aroma: sweet crystal malt aroma with light floral hops,
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, good hop flavor turns bitter with a slight metalic astrengency,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

(12oz bottle, thanks wilkie) Small off-white head atop a lightly hazed amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, floral, caramel, cereal. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, some pine/floral. Very drinkable light-medium body with light acidity. Would make a pleasant enough session beer.

on tap-pours a tan head with gold color. Aroma is citrus hops. Taste is citrusy hops, caramel malt. Thin, minimal carbonation.

Bottle... NTB Ernesto Festo ’06... Hazy amber ale with a small, fizzy, white head. Fruity, beefy nose extends notes of apricot, broth and perspiration. The flavor offers toffee and fruity sweetness evened-out by grapefruit bitterness. Medium-bodied with modest carbonation. Short, crisp, clean finish. Refreshing, but fairly bland.

Tap at Woods on South 2/1/08: Pours a transparent deep golden with a thin, clingy-lacing froth of white head. Has a fresh piny resiny hop nose and a light malty backbone. Starts effervescent and semi-sweet balanced with an earthy piny hop flavor before a blander grainy dry finish A decent APA but could use a little more body and sweetness.

12oz bottle. Pours lighter than expected, with a dark hefeweizen or pils yellow and a light haziness. Nose of apple juice, ginger ale, and wheat wheat yeast, with the flavor mostly consisting of apples and apple juice, and an almost funkified yeast presence, but it doesn’t really turn into anything fantastic. Easy drinking and at the very least it’s different than most other pale ales out there.

Dark gold to bronze in color. A moderate dark cream colored head. A somewhat typical amber aroma, but this one does seem to be more balanced actually mildly enjoyable. mild caramel and licorice dominate. Somewhat thin in feel. Mild orange peel and light malt flavors. Not very interesting and rather close to boring. Certainly not a pale ale, more light amber.

Draft sample at Knoxville Brew Jam. Poured a clear amber color with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate sour citrus hoppy aroma. Light to medium body. Medium bitter flavor with a medium bitter finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met.