Rodeo Citra Pale Ale
Payette Brewing

 

 

16oz glass at the Payette tap takeover at Beer Revolution YEG Oliver Square.

This beer appears a slightly hazy, medium bronzed amber colour, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and wispy bone-white head, which leaves some decent layered snow rime lace around the glass as it it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, juicy orange, lemon, and red grapefruit citrus flesh, a tame hard water flintiness, and more plain leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a pleasantly muddled tropical fruitiness, more orange and generic grapefruit citrus rind, wet stones, and a growing leafy, weedy, and gently perfumed floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite understated in its wan-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with a meek creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes off-dry, the fruit and malt essences carrying the day.

Overall, this is a very engaging version of the style, in the sense of a lower ABV offering having so much IPA-esque flavour and mouthfeel. Worthy of checking out, as the Citra hop surely pulls its weight here, making for the perfect post soccer quaff.

Rodeo Citra Pale Ale on tap at the brewery in Boise.
Very hoppy for style with moderate bitterness.
Smooth, fairly full body.
Substantial citrus fruit notes.