Renaissance Perfection Pale Ale

Brewed by Renaissance Brewing
Style: English Pale Ale
Blenheim, New Zealand

(Bottle 50 cl) Slightly hazy, pale amber golden with a rough, white head. Citrus and caramel in the nose. Medium body, a little low in carbonation with a very soft mouthfeel. Plenty of caramel, lots of fruity flavours but otherwise completely dominated by distinct, citrusy hops that also leave a solid bitterness. Almost more like an APA. 040208

Draught at the brewpub. Clear amber. Grassy mangoish hop aroma. Dryish and crisp with medium body. Really hoppy with strikingly bitterfinish.

A monster! Lots of pale malt and hops for a European-style Pale Ale. A little hoppy for me, but it’s up front and doesn’t linger. The Renaissance brewpub in Blenheim’s a nice place to enjoy this brew, although I enjoyed mine in Akaroa on the Banks Peninsula near Christchurch.

Bottle. Hazy orange amber, orange-tinted head. Aromatic hop aroma, lots of peaches, gooseberry, and orange rind. Sweet malts are almost lost in the hop load, fruity and perfumey, and the finish is surprisingly bitter-- seems like more than 45 IBUs to me. Very nice, but not very English to me (where are the fuggles, the earthiness, the tea-leaves?), but I’m not complaining! Tasty.

Bottle, poured a clear amber with a large foamy off white head. Beautifully hopped aroma,flowery and malty. The palate is also strongly hopped, the malty flavour is earthy, with a long drying and resiny finish.

Draught at Creek Pizzeria (opposite the Brewery), Blenheim. Pours dark golden with a small white head. Aroma of sweet malt, citrus fruits and hops. The flavour is malt, biscuit, citrus and fruit. Thin-medium bodied with low bitterness. A solid English PA.

Big frothy head an amber pour little hazy,aroma malty caramel fruit honey toffee syrup nearly,flavour toffee a fruit bitter caramel fizz on the tongue has that taste of toffee apple a little tart but not bad as to spoil,goes down smoothly,citric peel bitter,finish smooth tasting,good bitter,with that added fizz on the palate.

Thin low density head with good lacing. Slightly murky gold amber in colour. subdued nose of mild nose of mild hops with a fruity edge. You need to think about it (so to speak) but quite classical. Palate weight is light but again classically structured. Flint, bitter hops, grapefruit, resin from the hops. A fraction spicy on the finish. Light and easy drinking.

Nov 2006 (3.2)
On tap at the Malthouse in Wellington. Medium rusty orange with a very thin head. Fruity nose with a nice display of apricots. Elegant palate, more apricots, dry hoppy notes, some mineral and iron on the finish. Perhaps the intensity is just a touch mild but very well built.