Pale Ale
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company

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From:
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
 
Alberta, Canada
Style:
American Pale Ale
ABV:
Not listed
Score:
+9 ratings needed
Avg:
3.5 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
1 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Jun 15, 2014
Added:
Jun 15, 2014
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.5/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
20oz pint, the latest seasonal offering at the brewpub in Canmore's town center.

This beer appears a murky, medium bronzed amber colour, with one skinny finger of thin, wispy, and weakly bubbly off-white head, which leaves a few examples of cross-section wavecrest lace around the glass as things slowly ebb away.

It smells of floral, fruity hops, in the candied orange and chick that sashayed past you on the street perfumed sense, tame pale grainy malt, and little else beyond a subtle mineral water flintiness. The taste is softly biscuity, bready, and doughy caramel malt, a separate pale graininess, mild citrus and musty leafy pine hops, and some ethereal floral mountain path notes.

The bubbles are pretty lo-fi, and hardly making any sort of scene, the body a sturdy medium weight, and generally smooth, amongst a piddly pithiness. It finishes off-dry, the mixed grainy caramel malt persisting in its plainness, and that floral hop character still strutting its stuff.

A so-so version of a pale ale, whatever the unspecified variation (I guessed American, because I drank with one of the brewers last night, he of East-Coast Yankee extraction). The floral character is interesting, I'll freely admit, but doesn't inspire a lot of staying power on my part.
Jun 15, 2014