Hub City Pale Ale

Brewed by Hub City Brewing
Style: American Pale Ale
Stanley, Iowa USA

Compliments of Steve. Poured from 12 oz vesel, a decent golden hue, formed huge craggy foamy head. Aroma was of a little skunk, a bit of floral happenings. The flavour was of light pineage, with a small malt character that almost leads to a lager, but not quite. Overall decent beer, drinkable.

Bottle: Pours a bright copper with a finger of creamy sand colored head. Sweet maltiness, a little bready, and light florals fill the nose. Floral hops up front with a heavy, bready malt backbone. Lightly sweet initially, but more earthy than sweet. Light finish is mostly floral bitters. Kind of earthy and dirty without the fun of doing it yourself.

Courtesy of JMerritt. OMG, a beer of theirs with carbonation! Pours a hazy orange color with a big, bubbly dense, off-white head. Aroma is a light floral with a modest amount of citrus from the hops and a light grainy maltiness at the end Flavor has a nice citrus hops note to start but quickly moves into a acidic, vomit type of flavor with the brew, a strong toasted malt flavor and some sort or herbal ending. I think the extreme toastedness and early citrus hops must combine to make that "vomit" flavor I experienced. Body of the brew is light with a thin texture but it does have great lacing. Overall the beer has potential but there is just something in the middle of the flavor profile that is messing with the brew.

Festival of Iowa Beers 2009. Pours a deep golden color with a small tight head. The beer has a light English hop and biscuit aroma. the flavor has a nice little English hoppiness and is nicely bitter with some caramel and some of that signature nasty butterscotch. yep.

Festival of Iowa Beers 2009. Poured a clear light orange color with a fluffy white head. The aroma wasn’t too bad consisting of light flowery hops and pale malt. Light to medium bodied with mild bitterness. I tasted citrus candy, but not not else. Weakish malt backbone.

Bottled, purchased in a Hub City six-pack mix. Pours clear, dark reddish-orange with a very small, bright-white head. Pine & nectarines battle wet grains for dominance of the aroma, and I think the toasty hay/straw wins. Mildly bitter flavor turns moderate as heavy spruce notes float in, quickly followed by toasted malt and finishing with a lot of green herbal notes . Finish is a little watery, though mildly bitter grassy hops are a little long lasting. The more I drank, the less I was impressed.

Pours darkish peachy gold with a thin white head that has poor retention. Aroma is caramel, grass, thistle, green tomato, butter and planty notes, there was also a hint of citrus right at first sniff that I couldn’t detect after that. Flavor is toasty malt, bitter dandelion greens, vegetal notes, feverfew tea, some other herbal tea that I can’t think of, sweet malt, some hop bitterness and more dandelion to finish. Palate is thin to medium bodied with medium carbonation, slightly slick entry and dry finish. This is the strangest Pale Ale I have ever had, not in a good way. Too bad.