Firestone Walker Pale 31

Brewed by Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
Style: American Pale Ale
Paso Robles, California USA

This aroma offers the nose a smell of hops, peaches, grapefruit, and molasses. It is a golden solution with very little head offered. This thin bitter sour beer produces a taste of hops and grapefruit that fades leaving a mild hint of molasses lingering on the tongue.

pours orange-golden with a minimal white head, aroma of hops, citrus, and fruit. Flavor is slightly hoppy, carbonated,citrusy and semi sweet with a clean dry finish. good body good brew.

From a 12 oz. brown bottle Made a decent appearance, poured a clear golden hued copper with a foamy white head that reduced to a thin lacing. Had a grassy/herbal hop and bready malt aroma with a musty yeastiness and a little roasted barley. Moderate carbonation and a slick, coarse medium bodied mouth feel, moderate drinkability. Had a crackerish malty and herbal hop taste, a little buttery, traces of a salty yeastiness and a dry, coarse, bitter hop finish.

Pours a rich golden color with a ncie fluffy head. Fresh citrus aroma with some orange marmalade. Assertive hop flavor is characterized bystrong lemon/lime flavor but balanced by a sweet malt component. Finish dry and crisp. Not bad.

Slightly hazy orange. Orangey hoppy aroma. Orangey hoppy taste. Light bodied. Orangey finish. Orange alert. Clean and easy to drink.

The beer is a gold color and only has a wispy, pale draught head. This beer has an incredible, fresh, hop aroma. I get notes of apricots, some peach, and of course some of the typical citrus notes. The aroma is just quite striking, and I really like the mix of fruit character that the hops evoke here. The taste is pretty light and refreshing and has a light sweetness to it that really helps to accentuate the fruity flavors from the hops. The hop character is definitely dominated by a fresh fruity character that is most evocative of peaches and apricots. This is really quite nice.

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The beer pours out a clear, dark gold color with a low foaming cream-colored head. Wisps of it stayed around until I was at the bottom of the glass. The aroma is noticeable almost immediately upon opening the bottle, with scents of citrus and floral. The taste was really goodwith citrus-like bitterness from the presence of hops, but at the same time wasn’t so citrusy that the line between beer and fruit juice was blurred. Although the citrus-like flavor of grapefruit or lemons is what dominates at first, on the second or third taste I noticed more balance with the malts, bringing in an almost under-taste of sweet grains. The finish is dry and sweet at the same time, with little kick as the carbonation level is medium to low.

Citrus and a bit of pine to this one, but very easy drinking, nice, easy drinking, I’ll drink it if offered anytime, quite smooth.