Celebrate Lancaster Ale
Spring House Brewing Company
- From:
- Spring House Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.25 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 29, 2019
- Added:
- Jun 09, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Brewed in partnership with City of Lancaster (PA) Office of Promotion.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
2.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1
2.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1
Today is/was the day of the Celebrate Lancaster (PA) celebration, but this this is as much as I am celebrating. I have a high sense of disillusionment with my hometown, having returned twice, once following an abbreviated 15.25-year career in the U.S. Navy to be with my Pops at the end of his life and again after earning an MAT from Pitt to come back & teach at my alma mater high school. Pops is nearly 18 years gone, I have retired from teaching after a decade & I have been passed over in my mayoral bids twice. My mother still owns the family home & her brother, my uncle, owns their family home with the former in the city & the latter in the eastern 'burbs. She will be 87 y/o in October & he recently turned 80 y/o so my plan is to put Lancaster, PA in my rearview mirror at some point following their inevitable passing, despite there having been a ChANdler in Lancaster (City & County) since its inception. Bye!
From the CAN: "Brewed in partnership with City of Lancaster (PA) Office of Promotion."
How nice. That used to be known as the "Mayor's Office of Special Events" or "M.O.O.S.E." & was headed by a hot little redhead who used to chuckle at my unsubtle advances. Mayor Daneane Sorace has her own staff now & my interest is minimal, at best.
OTOH, I am VERY interested in Crack!ing open the vent & CANducting a C-Line Glug to get my in-home celebration started! It ballooned upwards very quickly, forming two-plus fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, bone-white head with modest retention. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Straw-Yellow (SRM = > 2, < 4). Nose had an odd citrusy-woodiness, leading me to wonder what hops & malts had been employed in its production. Nothing on/from the brewery's website (of course). Mouthfeel was on the thin side, not outright watery, but not far past it. The first sip clued me in automatically. This was simply a dumbed-down version of their flagship Seven Gates P.A.! 8=( Seven Gates Light. Grr. Ugh. Wotta cop-out! Here is part of the brewery's description of Seven Gates: "Seven Gates features Centennial, Citra & Amarillo hops." No mention of the malt(s), but it is of no matter. This was stylistically rubbish and a poor attempt to put one over on this long-time CANsumer! It tasted like Seven Gates without even the low-level Ooomph! that is its trademark. Finish was semi-dry, but so what? It was not worth its price & would remain so, even if it were being given out for free over the course of today's celebration! YMMV.
Jun 29, 2019From the CAN: "Brewed in partnership with City of Lancaster (PA) Office of Promotion."
How nice. That used to be known as the "Mayor's Office of Special Events" or "M.O.O.S.E." & was headed by a hot little redhead who used to chuckle at my unsubtle advances. Mayor Daneane Sorace has her own staff now & my interest is minimal, at best.
OTOH, I am VERY interested in Crack!ing open the vent & CANducting a C-Line Glug to get my in-home celebration started! It ballooned upwards very quickly, forming two-plus fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, bone-white head with modest retention. Color was an oh-so-slightly-hazy Straw-Yellow (SRM = > 2, < 4). Nose had an odd citrusy-woodiness, leading me to wonder what hops & malts had been employed in its production. Nothing on/from the brewery's website (of course). Mouthfeel was on the thin side, not outright watery, but not far past it. The first sip clued me in automatically. This was simply a dumbed-down version of their flagship Seven Gates P.A.! 8=( Seven Gates Light. Grr. Ugh. Wotta cop-out! Here is part of the brewery's description of Seven Gates: "Seven Gates features Centennial, Citra & Amarillo hops." No mention of the malt(s), but it is of no matter. This was stylistically rubbish and a poor attempt to put one over on this long-time CANsumer! It tasted like Seven Gates without even the low-level Ooomph! that is its trademark. Finish was semi-dry, but so what? It was not worth its price & would remain so, even if it were being given out for free over the course of today's celebration! YMMV.
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