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Capital Trail Pale Ale
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
- From:
- Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
- Virginia, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 10.7%
- Reviews:
- 29
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 27, 2021
- Added:
- May 26, 2013
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 21
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Reviewed by ramseye4 from Virginia
3.19/5 rDev -16.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 3
3.19/5 rDev -16.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 3
Pours a hazy golden color with tons of head. Very sharp.
Aroma is of a grassy field, earthy pine. Very organic smelling, reminds me of a forest.
Taste is okay. Grassy taste, a little bit of piney hops, with some bitterness at the end.
Mouthfeel is weak. Consistency of water.
Not bad, but I won’t go out of my way to drink it again
Oct 27, 2021Aroma is of a grassy field, earthy pine. Very organic smelling, reminds me of a forest.
Taste is okay. Grassy taste, a little bit of piney hops, with some bitterness at the end.
Mouthfeel is weak. Consistency of water.
Not bad, but I won’t go out of my way to drink it again
Reviewed by daliandragon from Maryland
3.74/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This was he first time I saw this brewer available this far north in Virginia and pulled the trigger on a couple of choices. Big piney flavor above a cloudy amber body. Nice medium bitterness throughout the sip, with a juicy, flavorful aftertaste. Not a ton of complexity, but that is not why beers like this are made. This is for consumptuion of multiples in summer heat.
Jun 09, 2019Reviewed by captaincoffee from Virginia
3.87/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.87/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Easy drinking and tasty beer. Pours brass colored with a medium head. Some lace clinging to the side of the glass as well. Nose could be bigger with some light earthy/piney hops. Flavor is bigger/fuller with some caramel and grassy notes and a nice bitter finish that lingers. Doesn't smack you in the face, but I wanted another one after the first, so that's a good sign.
Sep 03, 2018Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
3.91/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.91/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery "Capital Trail Pale Ale"
12 fl. oz. can coded "05/03/2017" and sampled on 07/24/2017
$2 @ Weis Market, Conshohocken, PA
Notes via stream of consciousness: "Dry Hopped Pale Ale"... I figured I'd better get to this one now! Ahhh, it's still there. OK, fairly hazy (which is OK because it's dry-hopped) golden-amber colored body beneath a short head of creamy white. Aroma is earthy, grassy, floral, piney, herbal and fruity with a bready maltiness. Not surprisingly the flavor follows. There's more fruitiness with some orange, and perhaps a hint of grapefruit. In both the flavor and the aroma the malt and hops are tightly connected. It's not that bitter although the can reads 55 IBUs. It seems more like 45 but maybe I'm off. It does have a nice dry finish with some residual pine, earth, and grass to it. Ahh, a hint of citrus as well. Medium bodied with a smooth, moderate carbonation. Pretty nice all around.
3.75/4/4/3.75/3.75 = 3.91
Jul 24, 201712 fl. oz. can coded "05/03/2017" and sampled on 07/24/2017
$2 @ Weis Market, Conshohocken, PA
Notes via stream of consciousness: "Dry Hopped Pale Ale"... I figured I'd better get to this one now! Ahhh, it's still there. OK, fairly hazy (which is OK because it's dry-hopped) golden-amber colored body beneath a short head of creamy white. Aroma is earthy, grassy, floral, piney, herbal and fruity with a bready maltiness. Not surprisingly the flavor follows. There's more fruitiness with some orange, and perhaps a hint of grapefruit. In both the flavor and the aroma the malt and hops are tightly connected. It's not that bitter although the can reads 55 IBUs. It seems more like 45 but maybe I'm off. It does have a nice dry finish with some residual pine, earth, and grass to it. Ahh, a hint of citrus as well. Medium bodied with a smooth, moderate carbonation. Pretty nice all around.
3.75/4/4/3.75/3.75 = 3.91
Reviewed by tbryan5 from Louisiana
3.5/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev -8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
A- Nice golden orange with a fluffy white head.
S- Earthy hops and semisweet malt.
T- The hops over power the malt too much here. Needs a little more sweetness to balance it out.
M- Light to medium carbonation. Slightly drying
D- Maybe I got an older can but this kind of missed the mark. Drinkable, just not great.
May 16, 2016S- Earthy hops and semisweet malt.
T- The hops over power the malt too much here. Needs a little more sweetness to balance it out.
M- Light to medium carbonation. Slightly drying
D- Maybe I got an older can but this kind of missed the mark. Drinkable, just not great.
Reviewed by vabeerguy from Virginia
3.73/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.73/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured from a can into an IPA glass. It has a dark orange color and a lot of bubbling as well as lacing. Taste seems closer to an IPA in that it has a lingering, but tasty, bitterness. This is definitely on my "to buy again" list.
Apr 19, 2016Reviewed by AndrewMichael from Virginia
3.75/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12 oz can poured into a tulip style glass.
Hardywood does great beers, so I've been meaning to try this one for some time now.
It doesn't disappoint, as it's a real nice dry hopped, bitter pale ale.
Apr 03, 2016Hardywood does great beers, so I've been meaning to try this one for some time now.
It doesn't disappoint, as it's a real nice dry hopped, bitter pale ale.
Capital Trail Pale Ale from Hardywood Park Craft Brewery
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
189 ratings
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