Grays Bower City Pale Ale

Brewed by Grays Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Drank after the Scape Goat Pale Ale, and on that comparison this has a less exciting aroma, a bit more dusty, less floral, but with a bit more bubblegum as well. Uncomfortable corn-like flavors, murky, unclean, with a late bitterness. Yellow, slightly hazy, white ring of head.

Clear copper. Nose grassy, some caramel and citrus. Some orange tart, caramel malts, some fruit, toasty and bready at the end. Creamy stuff. Pretty much a standard APA.

Medium colored orange-copper with nice big head. Grassy aroma. Tart citric bite with smooth finish. Bit flat on the mouthfeel side.

Bottle: Slightly hazed golden hue with small but lasting frothy head and good lace. The aroma has notes of floral and grassy hops, light citrus, and buttery bready malts, faint. The taste starts with a sharp bitterness and equal citric twang. Some malt balance provided but the whole thing finishes with a wimper. The feel is clean and lively but not much else going on. A so-so brew, nothing bad just nothing all that either.

12 oz bottle: mostly clear yellow orange body with a gray-white foam…light hop flower aroma with a hint of citrus and honeycomb. The sweet caramel malt flavours do have an opposing hop presence, but it is mild…the palate gets sticky as it warms – the malt gets gooey and binds a sourness to the tongue. Not bad.

Bottle pours a translucent light golden, virtually no head, soft carbonation, with spotty lacing.   Notes of butter, caramel, and vanilla.   Flavor is quite interesting for a Pale, caramel and some pear/apple type sweetness.   Slight malty character as well.   As it warms I get a slight perfume flavor on the exit.   Tiz okay, non-offensive, but a bit strange.   Thanks goes out to DavidP for the trade!

Yellow golden in color, very murky. Head is bright white, very thick, and mostly lasting. Mild cascade hop aroma is slightly citric (oranges) with some light caramel malts and Red Delicious apples intermixed. Flavor is mildly hopped with a strange appley sweetness in the finish. Interesting, and better than I expected.

Golden/coppy body with a thick white head. Aroma is of yeasty apple bread with a focus on apples. The flavor follows the same profile, featuring a bready sweetness with a apply-bitter finish. Definitely not a crisp refreshing pale ale, more like a muddled bock.