Knights Head Pale Ale

Brewed by Lion Brewery, Inc.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania USA

Courtesy of Kramer17801. Mixed aroma of floral hops, sweet malt, and corn. Flavor mirrors the aroma pretty closely.

Thanks to SS for sending me this PA original. Pours a clear amber color with offwhite head. Smells nice and hoppy just like I like it. Very carbonated, bitter finish. Tastes sweet and fruity, like apples. I’m getting a grassy after taste as well. Grass!? never noticed that before.

12 oz bottle thanks to kramer17801. Aromas were typcial hoppiness and some vanilla. Upon tasting I realized the fruit cocktail in there too. Prett sweet with a decent hop bite.

Bottle. Clear orange-amber body with a medium-sized frothy white head. Tart corn silage and leafy hop highlights over cereal malts. Big assertive flavor - orangey corn silage alonside biscuity caramel malt, light peppery, gin-like alcohol in the finish. The beer tastes good at the start but the alcohol flavors in the finish turn me off.

Acquired via a trade with kramer17801. The brew pours to a nice copper orange glowing body with a creamy off-white head. The aroma is full of hops. Oranges, grapefuit, pine. The flavor is really malty with caramel malts bringing up the front and followed by nice floral and grapefruit hops. It does have a spiciness to it too. Given what I’ve read about the cheapness of this brew, they really were able to make a quality product for next to nothing. Not the most elegant, but this certainly has its qualities. Way to go Lion! I’m sure Mr. Stegmaier would be proud.

This IPA was smack dap right on for the style. It was nice and aromatic with a great hop punch. And at $17.99 a case locally, you can’t beat this. I will be having this again since my first taste was at the Split Rock Beer Festival. Recommended.

Thanks to kramer17801 for the rare IIPA! Poured a clear reddish-orange with a scant layer of off-white head. Aroma of some floral and citrus hoppage, some caramel, and some corn syrup. Flavors of grapefruit, some almost stale dried flowers, and a rather subdued caramel base. Slick mouthfeel with lots of bitterness from the roof of the mouth through the finish. Sticky at the back of the mouth and somewhat warming on the finish. Pretty good brew, and exceptional for the $15-19 per CASE that I see below!

Strong up front citrus hop aroma, sweet malt flavor. For a small regional brewery that for the most part produces macro pale lagers, Steg Anniversary is a gem of an offering. This limited offering cost me $19.95 USD for a case. When brewer Brandon Greenwood left Nodding Head brewpub for the lead role at Lion Brewery I only dreamed of beers like this being created in W-B. Now that Greenwood has departed Lion Brewery I don’t know if a beer of this magnitude will be offered by the brewery again.