Trail Beer Pale Ale
10 Barrel Brewing Co.

Can from Brewers Haven. Medium golden, hazy, small ring of head. Fruity, citrus aroma, some mango. Taste brings bitterness to the mix, a but more than the norm fir a session. Dry, too.

 

 

 

12oz can. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It smelled of pine, citrus and toasted caramel. Sweet caramel and toffee with a piney bitterness.

A tasty and very easy drinking brew with a nice hop profile for a pale ale. It does not disappoint.

Poured from can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a lightly hazed golden color with a one finger head of white foam. The head slowly fades over time to leave a light level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is strongest of a grainy smell mixed with some aromas of orange and some nice hop aromas. The aromas are a mix of a dank pine and earthy hop along with a little bit of grapefruit. Overall the aroma is nice and inviting.
Taste- The taste begins with a bready and grainy taste that has a good showing of pine and herbal hop. The pine steps it up in flavor as the taste advances and is joined by some lighter citrus hop of a grapefruit nature as well as a little bit of orange and tangerine sweetness. At the very end, a little bit if dank earth and some light hay tastes comes to the tongue to leave one with a lightly sweetened and nicely danked, but very easy drinking taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is average in thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that is rather average. For the bready and dank, but lightly sweetened taste the feel is great and makes for a very flavorful, but very easy drinking brew overall.
Overall – A tasty and very easy drinking brew with a nice dank hop profile for a pale ale. I rather like this brew and will certainly go back to it again.

 

I see what they are trying to do here, and the amount of hops used would probably be fine in a normal Pale Ale. But it seems like the goal here was to produce a dry finish, keeping the ABV down, but what results is a quite astringent finish, all the hops come through without enough malt to smooth it out. This characteristic may make for an interesting session beer for IPA drinkers, but not one for wide acceptance.

 

Smoothest APA I have ever had. Alcohol content of an amber ale but taste and kick of a. APA. Great company that donates to good causes. My one complaint is that it is in a can.

 

 

 

 

 

The beer pours out a medium hazy light golden pale straw color, with a thin white head----------------- the aromas are of malt, orange, pine and lemon lime-------------- the flavors are of pine, orange, old hops, light pineapple, breadiness, dank weed and light passion fruit, the beer has a thin to medium mouthfeel with a light pine like bitterness on the finish--------------- overall this beer was alright, I think it was a little older than I would like, it did have some nice citrus and tropical flavors going on, every thing was just to restrained it had no pop to it