Ten Springs Whiteface Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
Style: American Pale Ale
Saratoga Springs, New York USA

Copper coloured body-slightly hazy with a medium-sized dense tan head. Aroma of slight low a.a. hops, caramel and caster sugar flavours with a good malt backbone. Aftertaste clean-nothing going, but a bit of caramel. Overall, a decent beer, definately different for the style, but worth a try! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from the Brickskellar in Washington, D.C. on 26-December-2003.

Muddy brown appearance; far from a typical pale ale. Aroma is mostly roasted malt. Taste is also very malty with little noticable hop balance. Bit of a sour aftertaste. This sample was probably past its prime.

Clear auburn with a firm, sticky head. Nose is simply a massive load of caramel and toffee, smells very British ale-ish. Toffee character continues in the flavor, very malty. Hops are more restrained than in most APAs, but not unpleasantly so. Would be a bit better if it was slightly creamier, would really accent the maltiness nicely. Still, quite good.

Murky copper with medium tan head. Aroma is floral hoppy. Taste is strongly floral/spicy hoppy beer. No real bitterness, and in the end I think the floral flavor comes off too strong.

Sweet, yet spicy and hoppy , very different as Gusler noted, so different in fact that i could still notice a difference once i had passed that beer limit where almost anything starts to taste alike. Apparently this stuff is very cheap around where i now live so i plan on drinking a lot of it.

Big malts and hops, a different tasting beer, unique, very malty and a decent hop spicyness that I love so much, a must try if you can find it.