River Runners Pale Ale
Eddyline Brewery

River Runners Pale AleRiver Runners Pale Ale
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From:
Eddyline Brewery
 
Colorado, United States
Style:
American Pale Ale
Ranked #447
ABV:
6%
Score:
88
Ranked #14,653
Avg:
3.92 | pDev: 10.46%
Reviews:
19
Ratings:
93
Status:
Active
Rated:
Nov 27, 2023
Added:
Aug 05, 2013
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  22
River Runners Pale Ale has been our long-time favorite session beer. Enough hops to satisfy our hophead, solid malt backbone, and crisp finish making you want more; the folks at River Runners loved this beer as well and we named it after them since they were the first to put it on tap right after we opened in 2009.
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.23/5  rDev -17.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
16 oz can from Total wine. Bought strictly for the tick. Cloudy golden, small fluffy head.Aroma features faint lemony notes. Taste also features the citrus, fruity notes, lemon. A bit light for an APA
Nov 27, 2023
 
Rated: 3.89 by Connybumbum from Colorado

Jun 21, 2022
 
Rated: 3.94 by ColoradoRich from Colorado

Dec 06, 2020
 
Rated: 3.14 by sbuck from New Mexico

Oct 07, 2020
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Reviewed by dcscientist from Colorado

3.85/5  rDev -1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Holy pineapple. This is basically a pineapple pale ale, given the hop blend they use. It's good, but be prepared for that taste to dominate the entire palate. Didn't really get much of the malt or any other hop flavor out of this one - it almost tasted like a single-hop experimental beer more than a pale that they've made for a long time.
Jun 16, 2020
 
Rated: 3.75 by Kolb from Montana

Dec 02, 2019
 
Rated: 3.9 by cbcrunch from Wyoming

Sep 16, 2019
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Reviewed by TANSTAAFB from Texas

4.37/5  rDev +11.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I was disappointed to see that my local store sold me a 6 month old sixer from a brewery that's a couple hours away! Still a good beer that held up surprisingly well, but I've had this fresh from Eddyline many times and soooooo much better fresh! I'll be having a chat with the liquor store that sold it
Aug 06, 2019
 
Rated: 4.08 by kbrown from Ohio

Jul 15, 2019
 
Rated: 3.83 by Nunya from Ohio

Jul 07, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by Haybeerman from Colorado

Jun 28, 2019
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Rated by Jamesg1188 from Colorado

4.54/5  rDev +15.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Light body yet bursting with citrusy hop flavor. Very nice pale ale.
Feb 09, 2019
 
Rated: 3.5 by jgunther71 from Illinois

Jul 23, 2018
 
Rated: 3.3 by mariellemartin from Colorado

May 21, 2018
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Rated by Tr0n4000 from Colorado

4.72/5  rDev +20.4%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Certified tasty num nums
May 11, 2018
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Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming

3.87/5  rDev -1.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Canned February 2nd 2018. It pours a hazy straw gold, brings 2 fingers of billowy foam, long lasting with some impressive lacing. The smell is light, notes of pine, lighter notes of cracker malt. The taste brings more to the table with more assertive notes of both that I mentioned in the smell. This is a straight up APA that would be a good entry level beer of the style for new explorers of "craft" beer but solid enough to please the veterans.

Thanks John! This Eddyline brewery is brewing some tasty beers.
Mar 13, 2018
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Reviewed by outdoor7or24 from Georgia

3.65/5  rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
16 oz can thanks to Kyle, can date 11-20-2017
A: pours a hazy golden wheat body, sediment, one finger brilliant white foam head, carbonation, bits of spotty and stringy lacing
S: very pleasant lemon and citrus tropical aroma, sweet malt, cracker
M: medium light body, juicy finish
T: lemon, hints of orange oil, watery, then builds up to lemon again, then the hops start kicking in with some piney resin and fades with the lemon finishing it out
O: good brew for warm weather or just a good go-to brew for easy drinking
Feb 25, 2018
 
Rated: 3.79 by emerge077 from Illinois

Oct 13, 2017
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Reviewed by cjgiant from District of Columbia

3.98/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Can dated 6/15 (I believe):
Pours a pale yellow to white gold. The head grows like a large cloud, and falls with some rockiness to keep that illusion. Spongy to soapy lace covers the top part of the glass.

Nose has a lemony scent that comes across stronger than an green herbal note and maybe a hint of grass.

The beer starts with a nice cracker to dry bread malt, fairly crisp. A lemon-spritzed pithy white grapefruit with a little pulp still attached comes next. This adds a little bitterness that has the beer leaning towards IPA. This flavor also lasts most of the taste, with an herbal to lightly piney bitterness peeking through at the very end. Although the malt also seems to reappear, it fades and there's an almost light minty aftertaste.

At some points a little more bitter than I think of for an APA, but in an enjoyable way. Medium light and quite quaffable, I found it a quite enjoyable offering.
Sep 24, 2017
 
Rated: 4.03 by TheHopsman from Nebraska

Sep 08, 2017
River Runners Pale Ale from Eddyline Brewery
Beer rating: 88 out of 100 with 93 ratings