Upland Helios Pale Ale

Brewed by Upland Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Bloomington, Indiana USA

Bottle from Pat’s Liquors in Porter, Indiana: This poured a clear straw/gold body with a modest head that didn’t want to linger too long. The aroma was promising - hoppy grapefruit-zest-tangerine-pine scents and the smell of sweet pale malt. Both were present in the flavor, but the hops had an oddly astringent bite. Nice dry, quietly bitter finish.

Lightly hazed, light golden color with a taller, slowly diminishing off-white head. Sweet malty aroma. Scents of a hot steamy brewhouse, not long after a hops addition. Earthy, lightly citric hops aromas creep in along with some light caramel. Lightly earthy pale malt start. I keep going back to the brewhouse, with the scents and flavors. Not worty, but fresh and somewhat unrefined. A little zip of zest in the finish and linger. A fairly simple, unrefined ale, in my opinion. In other words, this reminds me of a solid homebrew.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a softly carbonated orange colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was mild malt and hops. The crisp mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The balanced flavor contained notes of soft malts and medium strength hops. An OK brew just nothing special.

Bottle.Ivory head with good retention span. Transparent body, no visible carbonation, excellent lacing, and a golden hue. The aroma was crisp citrus hops, pale malt and some caramel. Ditto for the flavor with a dry finish. Tingly mouthfeel and light in body. Nicely balanced APA, very drinkable, not over-the-top hoppy tasting even though the hops tend to linger a bit, and a nice summertime APA worthy of a try and an APA that I would drink again.

Clear gold pour, soapy looking head. Aroma has some nice hops. Pine and citrus even a bit of floral hops. Flavor is a bit sweet with some citrus, grass and caramel.

Bottle. Big floral hoppy aroma, a little overly sweet. Pale golden pour with a sudsy off-white head. Using some Pils malt in this? Taste is bright and lightly bitter with some cereal grains and a good deal of sweetness with pale malt and light caramel. Light floral and fresh-squeezed sunshine lemoncit. Light-bodied and extremely drinkable!

bottle - Pours hazy yellow-orange with a one finger white head. It has an enjoyable aroma of hops with grapefruit and other citrus fruits. The flavor is moderately hopped with citrus notes. It’s sweet, but the caramel malt character is weak until it warms up considerably. Crisp hops lingers pleasantly in the finish.

My first birthday beer of the day- a semi cloudy golden colour. no head. Taste is terribly metallicy actually more glassy then anything. hops are old tasting. Bottled on July ’09. everything about this beer is really dissapointing.