River Horse Hop Hazard Pale Ale

Brewed by River Horse Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Lambertville, New Jersey USA

Bottled: Amber coloured. Clear. Off white head. Aroma of hops and herbs. Some sweetness and spices. Flavour of hops, herbs. Quite buttery. Is bitter in the end. Good mouthfeel.

12 oz. bottle purchased at the brewery. One of the finest pale ales I’ve tasted to date. Clear amber color with a nice lacey head. Sweet fruity aroma. Very flavorful with lots of fruit flavor, hop bitterness, and malt sweetness. Very well balanced.

Bottle that was just put on the shelves at A Street Wines in Cambridge. Should be fresh, but flavor is anything but. Almost exactly the same as the Special Ale, only add a pronounced hops bitterness and light flavor. The hops are old and soaked, giving a nutty, soily, stale flavor. Though not really much flavor at all. Just really a dry, floral bitterness, leafy and lightly papery. Aroma has some notes of these hops, sourish yeast or sourish grains or something sour, anyways. Light butteriness, astringent and bland. An orangish-copper colored beer, with a chill haze, rather lifeless looking, with a thin string of bubbles on the edges, no lacing. Malt has left the building.

lots of hops and a sweetness i normally expect from a wheat beer. a deep gold body and a creamy off white head. i felt more like this was an IIPA because of the amount of malts going on, which were nicely balanced with all of the hops. the finish was also very sweet, almost a pineapple and orange taste coming through very late.

Nice aroma - lightly hopped and full-nosed malts. Butter and caramel too. The flavor is very mild for an APA, yet it is very smooth, which is a redeeming quality. Malty and roasty, balanced with citrus/grapefruit. A pleasant finish.

I haven’t had good experiences with this brewery in the past, so I was pleasantly surprised by this one - cloudy amber with sticky white lace - malty, sweet aroma with hints of gingerbread, strawberry and background hops - kind of like a very malty esb - mostly sweet up front, bready and biscuity - hops swell up later on, with a decent helping of cascade hops to finish things off - if you must try a river horse product, I’d make this he one.

Possibly skunked or even infected. Overcarbonated. Stale malt taste along with a wierd hop bite in the end. Aroma is slightly oxidized as well.

Bottle... Clear, textbook amber ale with a small, creamy, off-white head. Nose of tea and toffee. The flavor is malty, but light. Well-hopped, but not overbearing. Tea, toffee and pink grapefruit. Medium-bodied and dry with fizzy carbonation. Finishes moderately bitter.