Laughing Dog Pale Ale

Brewed by Laughing Dog Brewing
Style: American Pale Ale
Ponderay, Idaho USA

THOUGHTS: Nice. Not the typical pale ale. Way more acidic and less bitter than most. Nice and fairly sessionable. Nice balance. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a hazy, light orange with an average to large, off-white head that kept a thin sheet and left excellent lacing. The aroma was nice but a little weak. There was light caramel malt, moderate grapefruit and orange citrus hops, earthy hops and lots of fruit. The initial flavor was slightly sweet and rather acidic; while the finish was very acidic, lightly bitter and sour with an average duration. The medium body was dry with soft carbonation and a dry and moderately astringent finish.

Bottle. Pours a honey body with a white head. Pine y light metallic aroma. Grass pine, and a herbal tea like quality. A hint of honey. A good pale ale.

Courtesy of jcwattsrugger. Pours clear copper with thin off white head. The aroma is sweet with malts, grains, earthiness, grass and pine. The taste is pretty smooth and refreshing with malts and a touch of biscuit to start and then moving toward a tasty thicket of pine, grassy and earthy hops. To midway and finish a tangy yet sweet up welling of citrus and esters joins in to provide added interest and balance. Nice pale ale.

Nice citrus pine aroma. Pours amber with a lacing head. Flavor is nicely balanced with malty sweetness up front followed by a hop bitterness. Finish is dry and smooth. Good stuff.

Bottle. Lovely fruit and heavy pine nose. Lychee, mild grapefruit, some lemon cleaner, and spice. Pour is an orange gradient (rather like some ESBs) which supports a rocky, tiny-bubbled beige head. Taste is bone-dry and lightly bitter with medium-strong tart-/sourness, just imagine super-heavy orange peel. If it had some wheat in the bill, would be a damn good base beer for adding coriander and lacto and getting a bitter Gose. Medium body and a puckering aftertaste. Different and interesting.

12oz bottle-pours a rich light tan head and copper/amber color. Aroma is citrus-orange/some herbal-tea hops, sweet medium malt-honey. Taste isherbal-tea, citrus-orange/resin hops, sweet medium malt-honey, a bit too herbal for my taste. Soft carbonation.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of a trade with ditmier. Pours a very hazy gold with a moderate off-white head that faded to a film after the first quarter of the glass and left partial lace. Pleasant aroma of citrus (predominantly grapefruit but not solely) along with some light malt. The flavor is dry malt up front followed by a solid dose of grapefruit hops bitterness. The grapefruit is a combination of fruit and pith. A solid pale ale.

12 oz bottle. Average American pale ale. You’ve had one 100 times before and probably will have 100 more that taste exactly like this. Tasty, yet nothing special.