Peak Organic Pale Ale

Peak Organic Brewing Company
Brewed at Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Name: Pale Ale
Date: October 27, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Total Wine, GA
hazy copper, fine off white head, drippy streaks of lace, dry malt arom, floral and earthy hops with a touch of citrus, lots of hop flavor and bitterness, light balancing malt sweetness, long bitter finish,
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

Golden-amber colour. Aroma of caramel, toast, some diacetyl. Caramel palate, some diacetyl, toasty but balanced. The finish is relatively dry. Good, honest Maine brew.

(12oz bottle, thanks wilkie) Hazy amber body topped by large off-white head that retains fairly well. Aroma is medium sweet, bread, lemon, orange, caramel, some butter, grapefruit. Taste is medium sweet, bread, floral/orange, caramel. Decent bitterness. Light-medium body, somewhat chewy, easy to drink.

Bottle… Clear amber ale with a small, creamy, white head. Good retention. The aroma is of cigarette tobacco and biscuit or toast and a rumor of black tea. Medium-bodied and lightly oily with middling carbonation. The flavor is toasted and bitter – not heavily so on either account – but bitter and tasty nonetheless. Finishes moderately bitter and drying.

@VT Beerfest–on tap-pours a thin white head and amber color. Aroma is citrus/flat hops, secondary medium malt. Taste is bitter citrus/flat hops, secondary medium malt. OK carbonation.

Pours copper with a thin tan head. Smells of bubblegum and sweet citrus. Tastes of caramel and sweet with some tea on the finish.

Any first impressions?
-A veil of foam dissipates atop the clear peach golden.
-Caramel biscuity bits and piney hoppiness are laid on wet crackers.
-Nondescript, sweetish cookies are followed up by pointy hop bitterness.
-The round maltiness and tiny bubbles don’t coalesce.

What if you dig deeper?
-The salty, earthy hop bitterness is curt.
-Some citrus fruitiness is found in the nose, hiding.
-This is an APA with a simple flavor profile, not complex nor necessarily flavorful.

Bottle; best before Dec.’06.

Amber beer, white head. Aroma is quite buttery with light herbal/spicy hop aroma. Rich malty aroma, light butterscotch and caramel. Flavour is decent... sweetly malty with light butterscotch and a herbal bitterness on the back. A kiss of fruity citrus. Fairly assertive bitterness.