‘Stimulating’ Extra Pale Ale celebrates West Coast Kind Bud with its piney cannibis-oiled hop resin and refreshingly bright citric waft. Mild wood-toned grapefruit peel bittering contrasts floral orange, tangerine, peach and mango tang as well as creamy crystal malts to baguette backdrop. Incredibly sessionable.
Intricately designed English IPA-styled medium body (in generically labeled bottle) based on interesting Lebanese ingredients. Dry-hopped herbal spices smoothly lather cocoa-malted base. Wild thyme, chamomile, sage, mint and anise waver across ginger-rooted vegetalia. Subtle complexities take hybridized pale ale just a few steps beyond stylistic dimensions.
Refreshing yellow grapefruit-peeled bittering overwhelms piney citra-hop stead. Mild lemon-seeded rasp and wispy peach juicing provide tertiary undertones. Crisp mineral watered briskness well-attuned to unending citric pleasantries. Never overbearingly bitter like stylistically stronger IPA’s, yet hopheads will be delighted and grapefruit lovers pleased.
Underdeveloped lemony grapefruit-orange rind bittering picks up herbal perfumed hop oiling over tepid caramel-toasted English pale malt profile. Lightly salted pretzel nuance and phenolic floral spicing backend murky piney citic finish. Needs to be fruitier.
Inpsired by British bitter styling, mineral-grained pale ale brings earthen wood dryness and reedy hop resin to caramel-malted dried fruiting. Grape-jammed fig, plum and grapefruit undertones recede to weedy bottom.
Courteous moderate-bodied ‘dark pale ale’ brings caramel-burnt dark toffee sweetness to fig-dried citric hops and earthen fungi backend. Nut bread reminder wavers in the distance.
Disappointingly amorphous English pale ale tries re-creating prohibition-era bottlegger fodder in bland manner. Phenol hop astringency and diacetyl buttering ransack vapid lemon-apple-pear fruiting. Metallic tinge and ethanol burn coarsen thin corn-dried backend.
On tap at Smiling Chameleon, soft-toned citric spritzer reaches moderate India Pale Ale-like heights with its brisk wood-dried grapefruit rind bite. Bright orange-tangerine-pineapple tang and zesty lemon juicing regale mineral-watered twig-bark earthiness. Toasted caramel malting at bready yeast base tempers mild bittering.