Green Flash Extra Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Green Flash Brewing Co.
Style: English Pale Ale
Vista, California USA

Bottled. Beer is a clear, light, golden-brown color with a large, frothy, white, mostly lasting head. The aroma is subdued and savory: Malty with a light note of toasted grain; Hoppy with light note of herb and trace of cedar; Yeasty with a light-to-moderate note of sourdough bread dough. The flavor is moderately sweet, heavily bitter with a long, moderately bittersweet finish. Bready retros. The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively. Straighforward

Bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is light amber. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), lightly to moderately hoppy (herbs, grapefruit). Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. Rather simple and mild overall, but an acceptable quaffer suited to thoughtless social relaxation.

This pale ale, amongst all pale ales, is the most execrable, most vile and most malicious of all. Not only did it attempt to ruin a fine social gathering at a fine tap house, but it tried to sully the fine name of pale ales around the bar, around the country and around the world. The Green Flash Extra Pale Ale is iconic of effortless, careless brewing. It’s the token pale ale that comes with every brewery; seemingly concocted to satisfy visitors who will have nothing short of bubbly hops. A smell of clean, fluffy grapefruit mingles with a conventional hopsy smell, with a puff heavy, crisp flowers. Lingering below these simple vapors sits the foxtail red beer, with a clean crème colored lacing running ‘round the rim of the glass. The taste is uncannily like a solution of carpet cleaner, and hits the tongue like a splatter of ill wrought bathroom spray. Another good word to describe this with would be “gacky”. It would go too far to slander the Green Flash Extra Pale Ale by calling it unremarkable, because it is remarkably offensive, and that is where its only strong suite lies.

Bottle. orange juice with a little rind. bitter side of hop. a little bit of lager flavor. dry. not much fruitiness. OK sunny gold-orange w ok head.

Bottled. Certainly pale, nothing insanely robust, but better than say Sierre Nevada. It’s lightly floral, mild hop, well balanced. The Green Flash IPA on tap however...wow, that stuff is the maven of single IPA.

From bottle. Pours a light gold with small white head. Nose is a light lemony citrus. Flavor follows with an even lighter version of nose with a light bitter finish. A lager like taste underneath. Stick with their IPA.

Like it implies, extra pale. A bright shimmering golden color w/ a shallow creamy froth. Aroma is fruity and hopsy flowers. Light nectar w/ ample residual effers. This pale is bitter, crisp, clean. Thats all she wrote. Big bitter finish. Overall: I didn’t care for it enough to have another bottle. Bad w/ pizza and better warmed.

Nice big ol hoppy pale, very citrus/grapefruity, crisp and refreshing. The fruity sweetness upfront was quickly overshadowed by the hoppy finish, very sweet hop taste without too much bitterness. Pours a bit cloudy though.