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Session Ale
Notch Brewing
- From:
- Notch Brewing
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 11.17%
- Reviews:
- 34
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 01, 2015
- Added:
- Mar 12, 2011
- Wants:
- 4
- Gots:
- 8
No description / notes.
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Ratings by ecar027:
Reviewed by ecar027 from Massachusetts
3.39/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.39/5 rDev -7.6%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Appearance: Very light amber, unusually so. Whiskey coloured. Not super bright but clear enough.
Smell: Nice, clean grapefruit citrus notes on the hops, maybe some lightly roasted coffee on the malt side.
Taste: The grapefruit citrus hops comes through again in the taste. I don't get much of the malt at all but maybe some light toast. Balanced.
Mouthfeel: This is where the beer goes from average to bad. My first bottle was dead flat, no hiss on opening and the cap was loose. No carbonation at all, I had to dump it. I tried another couple bottles and found that they were carbonated, but not very and it felt to me like all the caps came off too easily. I can understand that this is a session beer so maybe that implies low carbonation but I wonder if I got a dud batch. I like my beers on the unfizzy end of the spectrum but I really felt that this could have been carried by some more carbonation. Very watery mouth-feel even in the most carbonated bottle. It ruined the beer.
UPDATE:
The next beer had much better carbonation. The first three I tried yesterday were on the same side of the 6-pack so perhaps on that side the bottles had been clipped during handling? Who knows but the carbonation was much better on tonight's beer and the mouthfeel was much better. I've bumped the score accordingly for this bottle and chalked the carbonation problem up to bad luck.
May 15, 2013Smell: Nice, clean grapefruit citrus notes on the hops, maybe some lightly roasted coffee on the malt side.
Taste: The grapefruit citrus hops comes through again in the taste. I don't get much of the malt at all but maybe some light toast. Balanced.
Mouthfeel: This is where the beer goes from average to bad. My first bottle was dead flat, no hiss on opening and the cap was loose. No carbonation at all, I had to dump it. I tried another couple bottles and found that they were carbonated, but not very and it felt to me like all the caps came off too easily. I can understand that this is a session beer so maybe that implies low carbonation but I wonder if I got a dud batch. I like my beers on the unfizzy end of the spectrum but I really felt that this could have been carried by some more carbonation. Very watery mouth-feel even in the most carbonated bottle. It ruined the beer.
UPDATE:
The next beer had much better carbonation. The first three I tried yesterday were on the same side of the 6-pack so perhaps on that side the bottles had been clipped during handling? Who knows but the carbonation was much better on tonight's beer and the mouthfeel was much better. I've bumped the score accordingly for this bottle and chalked the carbonation problem up to bad luck.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire
3.93/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From the 12 fl. oz. bottle into a shaker glass. sampled on April 26, 2014.
The pour looks correct with its copper-amber color, modest off-white head, and slightly unfiltered haziness.
Nice composite of aromas including roasted caramel, toffee, biscuit, and fragrant grassy, earthy hops.
The body is a bit better than medium.
The taste brings out a quick malty flavor at first and then a quick eruption of hop bitterness that balances it all off in a complex and enjoyable fashion. It lives up to its title of a session beer.
Apr 26, 2014The pour looks correct with its copper-amber color, modest off-white head, and slightly unfiltered haziness.
Nice composite of aromas including roasted caramel, toffee, biscuit, and fragrant grassy, earthy hops.
The body is a bit better than medium.
The taste brings out a quick malty flavor at first and then a quick eruption of hop bitterness that balances it all off in a complex and enjoyable fashion. It lives up to its title of a session beer.
Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
4.3/5 rDev +17.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.3/5 rDev +17.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Thanks go out to Yamar 18 for the 2 bottles. Cheers, Kevin!
A huge billowy head of foam sitting on a medium golden brew, there's lots of nice lacing.
I get a flowery type of hop aroma backed up by some grain and a bit of sweet malt.
The taste is gracefully balanced with notes of caramel and grainy malt and a flowery hop flavour. A light presence of earth shows up after a few sips in. Dang, this is good.
On the light side of medium bodied with a bit too much carbonation for my liking else the mouthfeel
would be great.
This is one heck of a good session ale at 4.5% abv! Highly recommended.
Jan 26, 2014A huge billowy head of foam sitting on a medium golden brew, there's lots of nice lacing.
I get a flowery type of hop aroma backed up by some grain and a bit of sweet malt.
The taste is gracefully balanced with notes of caramel and grainy malt and a flowery hop flavour. A light presence of earth shows up after a few sips in. Dang, this is good.
On the light side of medium bodied with a bit too much carbonation for my liking else the mouthfeel
would be great.
This is one heck of a good session ale at 4.5% abv! Highly recommended.
Session Ale from Notch Brewing
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
98 ratings
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