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Little Creatures Pale Ale 3.65 326

Little Creatures Pale Ale

Percentile
94
overall
Brewed by Little Creatures Brewing
Style: American Pale Ale

Fremantle, Australia

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3263.67/5.03.65/5.05.2%99.1Lager glass, Shaker
Commercial Description:
Little Creatures was born to make a pale ale…a specific style of pale ale, a style that we are absolutely passionate about and one that we believe displays great balance of flavour and refreshment…complex yet highly drinkable. The beer's character is driven by the use of fresh whole hop flowers. Hop Flowers are carefuly selected that are bursting with aroma and contain all the essential oils and acids that deliver an uniqe flavour experience. Drink a few pints of this beer and you'll soon become one of us…a certified "hophead" craving those crisp citrus flavours of grapefruit and passionfruit and maybe a bit of honey, all backed up with a good balance of bitterness. If you're wondering what on earth malt or hops actually are then click on the two hop characters to the left and find out more. It's not just the hops that make Little Creatures Pale Ale what it is though. Selected malts are kilned in small batches to our specifications and are used exlusively in our pale ale. Two different yeasts are used to both ferment and bottle condition the beer. The latest technology and equipment is used to maintain absolute quality control and one of the main ingredients in the pale ale has got to be the amount of passion that it takes to produce a seriously good beer...we live for it! From brewing to release, a batch of pale ale takes about six weeks, allowing for two weeks conditioning in the bottle after packaging. No artificial preservatives or additives are included, just great ingredients.
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 Ungstrup (15430), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Mar 5, 2005  
An amber beer with a nice head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy as well as grassy - and so is the flavor.


 jfm (1695), Holbæk, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Mar 4, 2005  
Golden color with a white head. The taste is a slightly weak but nice body. Hops dominate the flavour. Very nice and hoppy palate.


 MiP (9161), Sønderborg, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Mar 2, 2005  
Bottle. Slightly cloudy, dark golden colour. Malty/oxidized aroma. Bonbon/caramel flavour. Bitter, slightly astringent aftertaste.


 Emil (6074), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Feb 26, 2005  
Bottle. Golden colour with a big white head. Spicy hoppy aroma and taste, light bitter. Medium body and a dry bitter finish.


 Jeppe (2638), Ølbutikken, Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Feb 22, 2005  
Hazy orange colored. Fine off-white head. Mild aroma with a fresh hoppy note and some metallic tones. Hoppy flavor, rather bitter, but still fresh and pretty well-balanced. An ordinary but drinkable pale ale.


 Mungo (2473), Southampton, Hampshire, England
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Feb 21, 2005  
Bottle.Bottle. Pretty standard pale ale. May have been a bit past it with unusually learge yeast chunks floating in it. Fruity (citrus and peach) hops and faint malt, restrained bitterness.


 ALLOVATE (1126), Perth, Australia
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20
Feb 19, 2005  
Drank this one quite often a few years back at our frequent haunt, but never battered an eyelid past it’s thirst quenching qualities, until now!!. Tasted on draught at the brewery, it poured a slightly hazy gold with a thin dense white head. Aroma is very APA, citrus hops, quite zesty and clean, with a breaded yeastiness. A medium light body and mild carbonation gave a pleasant mouth feel. Well balanced flavours of mixed fruit, lemon rind, oranges, mild sweet front, grapefruit sides and more fruity esters throughout and well into the lightly spiced swallow. On the down side, it became mildly soapy and lost a little of it’s ’zing’ towards the end of the pint. Over all, though, a brilliant APA, brewed right here in Fremantle (let’s hope the ’conglomerates’ keep their sweaty palms of it!) and now a well deserved global name.


 highlandlad (1278), Sydney, Australia
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Feb 7, 2005    Updated: Jun 12, 2006
Strong contender for Australia’s best beer. A zesty American-style pale ale with bags more flavour than the average Aussie ale. No surprise to see it rating so highly on this site as it’s very much in the US brewing tradition. It poured a bright tangerine colour with a rocky 2cm head and some lacing. It doesn’t look that lively but then you catch a whiff of that big grapefruity late-hopped nose and wow! There are also dryish gin and bitter tonic characters in there and a hint of pepper. It’s smooth and medium-bodied, with citric orange-peel characters on the tongue and a slug of resinous hops in a dry finish. It’s a big, flavoursome pale ale and the beer of choice for an increasing number of Australian drinkers. Unfortunately, the brewer’s other beer, a pilsener, is at the time of writing a crashing disappointment. (Bottle, Best Before Nov 2005)



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