Earls Albino Rhino Pale

Brewed by Kamloops Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Kamloops, Canada

On draught at Earl’s South Edmonton. Clear amber pour with a weak white foam, little retention. Aroma was sweet, caramel and malts. Taste was quite smooth, grainy and sweet, but very bland.

After the nose, this one goes bad for all the wrong reasons. The two main essentials of this draught pour spelled brown ale. The colour (red/brown), the palate (nuts, roasted cereals, warm sugars). All but the nose had was completely void of ripe and bursting hops. It also faded very quickly which was icing on the "mistaken identity" cake. If this was classified as a nut ale, it probably would have scored fairly high!

Tap. Light bready herb aroma. Pale amber, low head. A bit bread, light roast, light herbal hops. Light body Fresh, but, well - light and nothing special

[808-20071103] Tap @ Earl’s (Banff, AB). Grainy yeast aroma has a bit of citrus hops. Clear, dark orange brown body with a medium-lasting creamy off-white head. Yeasty grainy flavour has a hint of charred grass and finishes sweetly. Medium body is a little grainy. Pretty refreshing after climbing up a mountain and taking a quick dip in the hot spring spa...

Draft at Earls in Banff. Amber body with a small white head. Very mild aroma with light malt and muted hops. Flavour is similarly mild and muted, with a light bitterness throughout but not much in the way of hop flavour. Mild malt presence. Average palate. Underwhelming.<P> This is my 1000th Canadian Rating! Its a silly numbers thing I know, but I am pretty excited to reach this ’round number’ milestone. I had planned to save it for something highly rated but my recent trip west has resulted in way more Canadian ratings than anticipated. Yay! The beer was pretty mediocre but it came after a spectacular day of visiting Lake Louise and hiking in the Canadian Rockies. It was pretty spectacular, and I suddenly see why people would actually consider living in Alberta!

Mild sweet caramel malt aroma. Clear amber-brown body is topped by a thin white head that recedes rapidly to ring. Caramel malt and some fruity esters with light finishing bitterness. Light body is somewhat watery with pointy but short-lived carbonation. Sampled on tap at Earls near CanadInns Stadium in Winnipeg.

Served in Rhino pint glass. Deep orange colour. Head is whispy, whiite, some lace. Light malt aroma, orange notes. Malty flavour with some cereals. trace of citrus hop in the otherwise matly finish.

Bland, simple, the only redeeming quality here was that it washed food down the gullet. Why make a pale ale without any hops?