Pinecreek Pale Ale
Neptune's Brewery

On-draught @ the brewery:

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Bomber from Roxys. Medium golden, small tight head. Grainy aroma with light fruit notes. Taste introduces mildly bittering hops, soft tropical fruit flavors and a grainy malt backbone.

Poured from a bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a clear golden amber color with a billowy three finger head of just off white foam. The head has a great level of retention, very slowly fading over time to leave a ton of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is strongest of a cracker malt aroma mixed with a nice showing of some dank hop of a pine and earthy nature. Along with these smells comes a little bit of a grainy and caramel smell.
Taste – The taste begins with a drier cracker malt taste with just a hint of caramel and citrus sweetness. Right from the start there is a bit of a citrus grapefruit hop along with some very light pine and earth flavors. While the pine and earth are light upfront, they soon surpass the citrus hop in intensity and become the more dominant hop taste. Toward the end the sweeter flavors of caramel and orange that were present upfront get stronger and leave one with a more dank and crisp, but lightly sweetened taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the thinner and crisper side with a carbonation level that is rather average. For the cracker malt taste and nice dank hop the feel is great and makes for one very easy sipper.
Overall – A rater nice crisp, but slightly sweet and dank pale ale. Rather approachable and enjoyable.

From a bomber;

An amber body with small, durable white head.

Flavors are crisp pine, weird medicine flavor, and then some musty bread, like zucchini bread. Carbonation is light and pleasant.

Pretty good.

a very good pale ale, but also just a beer, nothing real innovative or inspired about it, but its tastes good, drinks easy for its comparatively high abv, and is fresh from the tap, works for me! a little bigger than most, but it doesnt really seem like that while i am drinking it, bronze to brass colored beer with a rubbed shine about it and a fizzy white head, it smells like pine, toasted white bread, and bitter orange peel, and the taste is about the same, without a huge juicy dry hopping or a ton of bitterness, it kind of misses whats trendy and also whats old school, and as such seems sort of immediately timeless or something to me. there is a high degree of freshness here, a little sweetness from the malt, and almost no yeast character at all, although this isnt quite all the way dry either. it has a good medium body, a flash of honey and then sweet valencia orange and juniper, but its just a beer. have not had a ton from these guys yet, but all of it has been solid so far. nice to see a beer not trying to do too much, sometimes a cold wetty, as i call them, is just what the doctor ordered. i liked this a lot, and have no real criticism of it at all.