Roots Organic Pond Turtle Pale Ale

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

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.

Name: Pale Ale
Date: September 22, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: hazy gold, fine beige head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma, light citrus and floral hops
Flavor: sweet pale malt flavor, citrus and floral hops, balancing bitterness dries it out, long bitter finish
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

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.

On tap at Roots, Portland. Copper colour with thin beige head. My god, it’s like a British beer!!! Slightly yeasty aroma, faint citrus hop. Yeasty in mouth, some juicy malt, citrus hop finish. It’s an English Bitter!!!!! Well done. Kinda flat and boring in mouth. Brilliant!!!!!

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.

Tap @ brewpub: Orange/yellow, light head and lacing. Nose of starch and musk, a bit of vegetal hop and some sweet crispy malt and hop notes. The flavor is grassy, meh, too vegetal.

On tap at the Roots brewpub during ABA Beer Tour 07. Labeled as Roots Organic Pale on chalkboard, pours a semi-hazy golden pale blonde brew with a decent head that quickly dissolved to a fine film and white ring. Aroma of a balanced light fruity malt and citrus hops with a light carbonation. Taste has light to medium body texture with a slight yeast and bitter flavor. Finish is dry and a citrus hop aftertaste.

4th Brewery 07-08 Brew Trip with Bikesandbeer. Listed as organic pale ale, guessing it was this and not nevermind. Pours orange with a bright white ring for a head. Nose has light hoppy character to it. Taste is nice and mellow with a good bite.