Piece Full Frontal Pale Ale

Brewed by Piece Brewery & Pizzeria
Style: American Pale Ale
Chicago, Illinois USA

GABF 2007. A hazy light golden beer with a thin orangey head. The aroma is sweet grassy combined with notes of peaches, and so is the flavor, leading to a dry grassy and bitter finish.

Objectively speaking: A remarkably well-brewed pale ale with brilliantly extracted hop flavours.
I like: Full-malted, but the sharp, cleansing carbonation attenuates the thickness impression. Sandy, spicy, resinous nose. Clean, bready, toasted malts. Rather complex hop profile. Very interesting for one so small. Beautiful hazy amber colour. Lacy white head. Great balance between dryness and sweetness.
I dislike: While attenuating thickness, the hard bubbles diminish drinkability because they do bite!

On tap and enjoyed a couple pints with JSquire and MrFacto: Slight hazy light amber with a fading head but left very good in it’s wake. The aroma has notes of fresh citric and herbal hops, biscuity malt, sage and mint, and dusty yeast esters.

The taste starts with a hoppy and fruity overtone, fresh resiny hops abound. Lovely soft and chewy pale malt gets ya in the middle. The finish has a light pepper and clove tone. The mouth feel is lively, crisp and refreshing. A very enjoyable beer indeed and I can see why it won a medal at the GABF. I dig it and you need to get ya some.

Poured hazy medium amber with a dusting and a ring of white head. Grapefruit and pine stand out in the aroma.. some caramel and bready notes beneath.. fills out with warmth.. quite enticing! The flavor was of juicy pears and grapefruit, becoming rather thick across the middle.. high pine, grapefruit, and pineapple bitterness all around.. sufficient caramel base. Creamy carbonation and medium-bodied with decent balance between the soft middle and rather high bitterness at the edges. Dry finish.

Draft at the brewpub. Poured a clear medium orange color. The head was two fingers high and off white. Fruity aroma that included the likes of apricot, orange, and a bit of grapefruit. Light to medium bodied with moderate bitterness. There was some caramel up front accented by orange, grapefruit, and a hint of sweaty hop. All nicely balanced.

sampled from a growler at DLD. pours pale copper with tan head. nose of PNW hops, this was pretty hoppy with juicy grapefruit notes. a decent apa.

Pour is hazed orangey amber with a thin dense off white head...smell is grapefruity and citric with a faint hint of sweet caramel...taste is stsrongly bitter with lots of grapefruit...lightly grainy finish...

On tap @ the brewpub. Yum. Hazy pale golden coloured with a medium sized head. Great balance with notes of malt, hops , pines, spices and fruits. Nice and dry finish.