Maritime Pacific Islander Pale Ale

Draft at a hotel dive bar next to the Moore Theater (Seattle, WA). Pours a slighly hazed golden orange color with a minimal head. Decent amount of citrus hop aroma and flavor. Can’t say I could decipher the Czech hops in the description, but okay. Nice bitterness in the finish.

Pours a hazy deep straw with small white head. Decent lacing. Slight aroma of soft spice. What first presents on tha palate is a nice soft maltiness almost as if they used a little wheat. But quickly a nice sharp hop bite comes on. I was a little concerned with the color as I enjoy my pale ales and IPA’s for that matter to be a good baloance of malt. This has the body and slight sweetnes from the malt but a nice bitterness too. Nice beer.

On tap at Snoose Junction (pt 2). Pours mostly clear amber with a small off-white head. Smells like citrus hops, mango, and brown sugar (took me a while to place that mango). Mostly similar taste, nice mouthfeel, bitter grapefruit finish.

Nice hazy crisp golden coloured body with a frothy white head that leaves a nice lace on the glass - this one looks great! Aroma of pale malt, light hops, wort, yeast and a bit of unfinished sugars. Medium-bodied; Nice assertive hops up front then showing some malt and a subtle citrus sweetness at the tail end. Aftertaste is somewhat hoppy, but not overly bitter and has a nice caramel sweetness. Overall, a nice and refreshing beer - not overly done like most new styles, and definitely worth trying if you can find it! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Bottleworks in Seattle, Washington on 25-April-2009, sampled at home in the Real Washington on 03-May-2009.

On tap at the Auld Triangle in Greenwood. I was there with my girlfriend watching a band she really likes called the Starlings. There was no cover which I like very much. The band is pretty good, but she has been listening to their cd for almost three months now since she bought it at their show in Port Townsend after the Strange Brew Fest that I attended with her and after4ever. She really is playing them out. Anyways, this one has a light nose of floral and woody hops, softer sweet malts, and a touch of butter. Pours a golden amber with no head. Flavors of soft malty sweetness, a little bread, caramel, followed by a pleasant soft floral finish with perhaps a touch of citrus as well. An easy drinking pale ale, the dry hopped version is much better and seemingly very different. Too bad the rating inteligensia does not deem dry hopping a recipe change or I would have another tick to my resume.

12oz bottle acquired in trade with riversdeAK (thanks!). Poured a medium and hazy golden color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of floral hps, grassy, toasty, and some citrus. Tastes of toasted caramel, lighter floral hops, and citrus.

Bottle. Poured pale amber with thin white head. Aroma of malt, grass and hops, something like a pils. Sweet light malt flavour, Light hop finish

On Tap at Maritime Pacific Seattle. Pours out a straw topped with a nice white head. Aroma of fresh floral hops and some grass. Tast of the floral hops is great. A nice citrus hop note along side. This was a tasty Pale Ale.