Roots Organic Pond Turtle Pale Ale

Brewed by Roots Organic Brewing
Style: American Pale Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Hazy beige colour. The aroma is big on the grapefruits and tropical fruit notes (lime, mango, starfruit). The flavour shows a moderate pamplemousse and melon hoppiness and faint pale malts. It’s a bit thin overall, but I’m into the hops. Finishes quite hoppy and dry. If this is English, there must be a town in Oregon called England.

Draught at the brewpub. Cloudy pale amber. Lychee aroma. Dryish with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Medium bodied. Dominated by lychee-like hops. The finish is resiny bitter with notes of ash.

This was nice, a little ligher than what I was expecting. A decent malt character, with some grassy hops and some herbal sweetness, followed by some grapefruit style acidity, very clean and drinkable.

Medium murky copper color with good head and lacing. Nice grass and grapefruit in the nose and in the flavor. Very drinkable beer.

Murky pale yellow with some light orange colors. Musty cardboard flavor and bitterness, good but lacking depth. Like a simple bitter semi-sweet hop flavor, flowery and very dry. A little thin as well. The good parts include the grapefruit juice sourness and some belgian-like yeast flavors... again, this is another Roots beer that is hard to describe well.