 41cubs (149), , New Jersey, USA
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 4/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Oct 7, 2009 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.
nickd717 (1399), Palo Alto, California, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Oct 7, 2009 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.
Snojerk321 (2027), San Diego, California, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Oct 3, 2009 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.
MoDog (927), Griffith, Indiana, USA
| 3.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Sep 30, 2009 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.
rustychiles (1068), Mesa, Arizona, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Sep 25, 2009 Pours a nice copper with asmall white head. Aroma is malt, bread, toffee, spices and hops. Flavor is malt, spices, hop bitterness, toffee and a tad earthy. Crisp and light bodied with a spicy tinge in the finish. Decent brew.
DougShoemaker (2856), Toronto, Canada
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Sep 23, 2009 Nose has orange/piney hops, some good malt too, orange, pours a slim custard head. Flavour has a milder orange/pine than the nose, malt is nicely integrated. Light bodied, well balanced, pleasantly bitter, easy drinking. Very good.
arrogantb (715), Denver, Colorado, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Sep 8, 2009 On tap at the Great Divide tap room. This was orange-red in color with a good white head that hung around for the duration of the beer. The taste was malty and hops seemed to be missing in action. This seemed like a decent pale ale but I prefer American style. I think this oen is a GABF gold medal winner but it just didn’t wow me. The only beer that I have been unimpressed by from Great Divide. Even the raspberry beer made me lift my eyebrows.
Serving type: on-tap
Reviewed on: 06-11-2007 22:48:48
cprochak (445), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Aug 31, 2009 Bottle from the brewery on 7/18/09. Pours clear gold with little head. Little sweet vanilla aroma with hints of hops. Dry and bitter and not too complex. LIght bodied and very oily on the tongue. Overall, a disappointment as I had been looking to try this for a while. But GD is still one of my favorite breweries.
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