Pike Naughty Nellies Ale

Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Seattle, Washington USA

Dark apricot in colour (crappy description!) and cloudy with a good ammount of small grainy sediment (not sure if that or the cloudiness should be there considering it wasn’t in the other bottle that was opened). Poured a small ammount of white cap but produced decent ropy lacing. Aroma comes across very fruity with some grapefruit, oranges and an unknown pink candy. Good fresh hops. Taste is nothing new or different. Mild hops, sour tartness, mild malts and some heated spice that sneaks in near the end. Mouthfeel is a bit too light but solid bitterness, good carbonation and a tart smacking dry aftertaste help make it decent enough. Seemed a bit too gassy, but nothing that would make you explode. Decent beer that would be really good while sitting in the sun while avoiding yardwork.

[1094-20080216] Tap @ Pike brewpub (Seattle, WA). Sweet yeasty bread aroma has a hint of fruit. Clear, orange body with a long-lasting creamy white head. Sweet grassy hops flavour has hints of toasted yeast. Grainy medium body. Average.

22oz bomber. Golden with white head. A very nice blond ale, very refreshing to drink. A little fruit but otherwise clean and dry.

Pours a slightly hazy gold with a tall, foamy white head. Slightly sweet lemony aroma with a slightly bready quality. The flavor is also a little sweet and citrusy with a light caramel flavor at first and an almost negligible hop finish. Easy to drink summer beer though.

Bottle at Bottlescrew Bills, Calgary, AB. Pours a golden straw colour with a 2 finger foamy white head. Aroma of weat, grass, and faint hints of citurs and nuts. Flavour is sweet, a bit watery and earthy. Normal mouthfeel. This is a good beer and is much better than the Seattle Pale Ale in my opinion. WOuld drink again if I get the chance.

Hazy burnt orange, spotty patches of bubbles float on the top, this beer looks good. Citrusy hops, and a abundance of peppery spices dominate the smell, caramely malts are detectable but seem to get pushed to the back and aren’t as dominant as I would like them to be. Hoptastic flavor, grape fruit hops are abundant but not over powering, caramel tasting malts make up the body of this brew, it also has a candy like sweetness, clean finish with no after taste. Overall very drinkable and is a high quality brew.

On tap at Pike Brewery. Nice light refreshing summer beer. Good golden color, some light hop character. Finishes clean. Good lawnmower beer.

2008 Bottle - Pours a light tan with little head. Nice carbonation, citrus and hay aroma, very light taste that still delivers a decent bitter end, not a bad beer...