Petes Wicked Ale

Petes Brewing Company
Brewed at Matt Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
San Antonio, Texas USA

Pete’s is one of the first micro’s I ever tried, but it has been a while, so I figured I would give it another try. Pours a nice reddish brown with a good foamy white head. Flavor is good, a nice balance of hops and malt. Still a good "macro-micro’.

Smells pleasantly of sweet caramel malt. Some spice to it, maybe cloves. Taste is somewhat weak and watery with a sugary maltiness. Very little to almost absent hops. A different brown ale than I am used to, but still very good.

Sweet, minimal hops, similar to most macro ales with less punch. Don’t know how this can be considered a craft beer. No bad traits, just too mild in every way. Too sweet also. Goes down easy.

Pours reddish brown with a decent off white head. Aroma is faint but of caramel malt. Taste is a little light but with some pale and crystal malt flavor. Not bad but not great for sure.

12oz bottle: pours amber brown with decent white head, little aroma of malt and caramael, flavor very simple slight malt with hint of roasted malt in there. nothing special.

Bottle. Poured a clear amber brown color with a moderate off-white head. Faint aroma of malt, caramel, and a tiny bit of hops. Flavor consists of light toasted caramel malt and a slight sourness. Faint hops on the finish. Pretty simple and plain. Not bad, but not something I will have again in the near future.

This is tasty, enjoyable, and interesting but not particularly satisfying to me. It is dark brownish red with a big, dense light tan head that lasts a long time and leaves some good lacing. The aroma is caramel, toast, wine and hints of flowery, piney hops. The taste is cherries, wine, grain, with a light earthy toast quality, a light bitterness, but a predominantly sweeet-sour quality. It is a little bland and soft, especially after a while, but tasty and has an interesting complex of flavours.

Dark redish-brown with small off-white head. Slight hop smell, more malt. Sweetish malt dominates the taste with some spice, but kinda bland...a little hop bitterness on the finish. A little too watery for my taste.