American Pale Ale
Hawkes Bay Independent Brewery
- From:
- Hawkes Bay Independent Brewery
- New Zealand
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 05, 2016
- Added:
- Sep 04, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
330ml, short Champagne-style bottle. If they think that this is supposed to be an APA, then they're pretty off the mark with the 4% ABV. More to come on that.
This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with three fat-ass fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some layered streaky cirrus cloud form lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of grainy and bready caramel malt, some tame biscuity toffee, muddled generic citrus flesh esters, and some heady leafy, weedy, and well perfumed green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some fading toffee sweetness, a mixed pome and citrus fruitiness, hints of wet ash, and more earthy, leafy, and still strangely perfumed hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly timid in its basically perfunctory frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with the slimmest of creamy measures arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes well off-dry, the near-complex malt kind of sloughing off any lingering hoppy upstarts.
Overall, it's pretty damned clear that this brewery fucked up in adding an otherwise well-made amber ale into a bottle labeled 'American Pale Ale'. I'm grading this as the amber version, and not what they're calling it, so I suppose I'm letting them off a bit easy, eh, mate?
Sep 05, 2016This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with three fat-ass fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some layered streaky cirrus cloud form lace around the glass as it quickly dissolves.
It smells of grainy and bready caramel malt, some tame biscuity toffee, muddled generic citrus flesh esters, and some heady leafy, weedy, and well perfumed green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some fading toffee sweetness, a mixed pome and citrus fruitiness, hints of wet ash, and more earthy, leafy, and still strangely perfumed hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly timid in its basically perfunctory frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with the slimmest of creamy measures arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes well off-dry, the near-complex malt kind of sloughing off any lingering hoppy upstarts.
Overall, it's pretty damned clear that this brewery fucked up in adding an otherwise well-made amber ale into a bottle labeled 'American Pale Ale'. I'm grading this as the amber version, and not what they're calling it, so I suppose I'm letting them off a bit easy, eh, mate?
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