Founders Pale Ale

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Light orange, slightly hazy body with huge white head. Grapefruit, pine and biscuit nose. Flavor is moderately sweet and moderately bitter. They are nicely woven together so that there isn’t much watery texture between one taste and the other. Lively carbonation — in fact, a tad too much carbonation which results in a fizzy mouthfeel. Medium body. Finish is mostly hops. Thought this was a comfortable beer, certainly more muted than many APAs.

12 oz. bottle. Clear amber pour, medium lasting off white head, fair lace. Pine , orange peel, grain in the aroma. Medium body, slightly resinous, clean mouthfeel, light carbonation. Malty, with some sweet nuttiniess, substantial grapefruit bitterness that comes on quickly and lingers.

Light copper color with small white head. Not much lacing to it, but who’s complaining. Very pine/resin oriented aroma with a few subtle hints of honey and malt. Very dry, piney hop taste with little sweetness initially. As it warmed the sweetness came around a bit and balanced out nicely. I can definitely see this as a good summer/lawn-mower beer. Founders has yet to disappoint me.

Amber color. Smell of hops, malt, grass, lemons, honey, flowers and candy. Taste of roasted malt, hops, citrus, flowers, bread and a nicer hop bitterness at the end.

In a blind taste test I would have labeled this an English pale ale or a bitter. Aroma was all grassy hops. Pour was a meduim gold with a thin white ring for a head. Taste was thin, dry and moderately carbonated. All grassy and earthy hops with just a hint of malt, but barely noticeable. Nice.

Orange gold color with a small but persistant head. Some haze, which is pretty typical with a dry hopped beer. Citrus (orange, tangerine), citrus pith, and floral aroma. Taste is tangerine, floral, mildly earthy, with a light malt base of caramel and a pleasant bitterness. The finish is moderately bitter (for the style) and very drinkable. A real nice pale ale, not as over the top and aggressive as some west coast "pale ales" but a more traditional example that certainly doesn’t lack bitterness.

Cloudy honey amber body with a small offwhite head. Hop aromas of grass, melon, and pine. Medium body with a nice citrusy hops bitterness throughout. Lots of pulpy pink grapefruit notes. One of my favorite APA’s.

draft. pale golden color with sparkly white head. Good hoppy taste but lacked in malt charater. I tried to "battle" it against FFF’s Alpha King and they are just totally different. More comparable to Sierra Nevada Pale Ale but not as dry and I think a little better.