Portsmouth American Pale Ale

Pours amber with a small head. Sweet malt with some hops in the nose. Very smooth taste. A bitter bite at the end with a sweet aftertaste. Its good and a little sweeter than most, but nothing sets it apart from any other APA.

Pours a honey colored body with a frothy white lace. The aroma is sweet, herbed, spice, sugar in the background. The taste is so smooth it starts on the palate hoppy and herbal with a bitterness kick followed by a honey sweetness on the palate and finishes with a tannic herbal tea tanginess, quite a refreshing ale.

Bottle. Pours a clear coppery color with a thin white head. Ordinary, almost boring aroma and flavor of mild floral and citrusy hops with dominating butterscotch and a strong bitter finish. The body has a light to medium thickness with an oily texture and lively carbonation. The butterscotch is too dominating.

Lots of butterscotch in the nose with some lemon-citrus and honey tones. Clear orange-brown body is topped by a low but lasting white head that recedes to cover with some lacing. Some biscuity malts are detectable beneath the caramel and butterscotch with some citrus hop character and a jarring bitterness that seems far too pronounced. Very dry, well attenuated medium light body with fair carbonation that is somewhat short-lived. Bottle sampled with beerbuzzmontreal, MartinT, Olivier_MTL, Rastacouere and Yowie.

22oz bottle. Clearish copper pour growing a thin off-white head. Very sweet nose with explosive diacetyl features that annoy more and more as it warms up. Caramelly malts and floral hops dominate through and through. The bitterness levels is high for an APA, but it grows chalky and with a strong astringence that kills the maltiness. Light-medium bodied, fari carbonation. I didn’t mean to rate that one, knowing it’s a regular at the brewpub, but I unfortunately need to recommend skipping on the bottles.