Great Divide Denver Pale Ale

12 ounce bottle from College Liquors. Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head and lots of lacing. A sweet biscuit nose, light hops. A nice flavor of fruity citrus hops, biscuit/bready malts. Easygoing and flavorful.

POurs dark gold with nice hop notes on the nose. The hops shows in a muted sense throughout but it drinks very pure. I like the fact that you taste the complexity without getting barreled over.

Pours a clear, rich golden hue from the 12oz. bottle: Bitter thoughout and into the finish. Tastes a little fishy? Like, literally, cod or something. I’m left unimpressed. Drinkability: Mediocore pale ale. Rebuy: Don’t know. It’s a little better than I expected, I’ll give it that. #167 on 27102009, DG.

Simple and plain. Just enough hops to keep me happy. Nothing I’ll purchase a great amount of though. Great Divide’s other pale and IPAs are much better.

An simple session with little to offer but plain average beer goodness. The smell is the best attribute here with a bready apricot aroma dominating. The taste leaves a lot to the imagination coming off more like a pale lager with weak dirty hop flavor and an ashtray finish. Watery consistency but with a really even carbonation. Thanks Great Divide. 2009 12oz.

On tap at the brewery. Clear copper color with a small white head. Aroma is mainly malty with notes of caramel and maybe a little floral hops. Flavor is rather one-dimensional, with bready and caramel malt and just a little bit of earthy, floral hops. Not much to it really. Palate is medium-light and crisp with medium carbonation. Overall this beer is average.

12oz bottle. A medium copper hue, with decent carbonation. Sweet, malty nose. Good body, with a slightly metallic taste up front. Finishes with a bit of a hop bite, certainly more of an American style hop level than one might expect from the archetype British ales. A nice session ale.

12oz bottle (Bottled July 27,2009) served in a shaker. Crystal clear copper pour with a two-finger thick head of rocky beige foam that settled very slowly. Chunky lacing. The aroma had toffee, caramelized sugar, toasted bread, and some light earthy hops. The flavor was also malt forward. Rich and bready with notes of toffee and caramel. Some light earthiness and citrus bitterness on the backend. Medium-bodied and lightly carbonated. Not to shabby...better than I was expecting, being as I’m not a huge fan of English-type pales.