Swell Pale Ale
Swell Brewing Company
- From:
- Swell Brewing Company
- Australia
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.94 | pDev: 4.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 12, 2014
- Added:
- Aug 16, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
2.91/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.91/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pale unfiltered look. Head is very generous, made up of small bubbles, not so tightly packed. Decent lace, doesn't retain very well. Looks alright.
Dirty, mouldy POR smell. Bit of musty apple with fresh-cut grass and a hint of vanilla. Mostly unclean, muddy bitterness; meh.
Taste is grainy for the most part. Swell of mild citrus and then some fairly bland bitterness on the back. Clean enough, with earthy spice and native mint. POR notes on the back but not too muddy, retains a certain drinkability but I'd choose something tastier if I got to choose.
Fairly chewy texture, but a bit flat as well. Not too bad.
Pretty bland and simple beer; not offensive but unlikely to make a big impact on the world of beer.
Jan 05, 2012Dirty, mouldy POR smell. Bit of musty apple with fresh-cut grass and a hint of vanilla. Mostly unclean, muddy bitterness; meh.
Taste is grainy for the most part. Swell of mild citrus and then some fairly bland bitterness on the back. Clean enough, with earthy spice and native mint. POR notes on the back but not too muddy, retains a certain drinkability but I'd choose something tastier if I got to choose.
Fairly chewy texture, but a bit flat as well. Not too bad.
Pretty bland and simple beer; not offensive but unlikely to make a big impact on the world of beer.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.15/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.15/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Purchased from the Adelaide Bier Shop. Indeed, they really wanted to thrust more of this on me. Let's see if that's because it's good, or if it's because they wanted to get rid of it.
Pours a hazed pale golden colour with a very minimal large-bubbled head of white that keeps forming and exploding with the overenthusiastic carbonation. Body is actually a touch heavier than I expected. It's not bad—I like the touch of haze and the colour. Everything else leaves something to be desired, however.
Nose is lightly sweet, with a faint touch of pineapple or tropical fruit hoppiness. It's very faint however, and is actually overshadowed by slight wet grain character and a touch of earthiness. Pretty faint, but not unpleasant.
Taste is much more generic and a little dull. Front palate gives some husky but light grain, while the back has a clean Pride of Ringwood character—the woody, slightly bitter herbal harshness—that, while clean, still reeks of PoR. Not great. Feel suffers from the overcarbonation.
Pretty average. I can imagine it could be better super fresh: those tantalising hints of fruit on the nose may well be stronger. But I have a feeling this bottle has been sitting around for a little too long in the Adelaide Bier Shop's storeroom.
And they've been looking for an opportunity to move it on.
Jan 04, 2012Pours a hazed pale golden colour with a very minimal large-bubbled head of white that keeps forming and exploding with the overenthusiastic carbonation. Body is actually a touch heavier than I expected. It's not bad—I like the touch of haze and the colour. Everything else leaves something to be desired, however.
Nose is lightly sweet, with a faint touch of pineapple or tropical fruit hoppiness. It's very faint however, and is actually overshadowed by slight wet grain character and a touch of earthiness. Pretty faint, but not unpleasant.
Taste is much more generic and a little dull. Front palate gives some husky but light grain, while the back has a clean Pride of Ringwood character—the woody, slightly bitter herbal harshness—that, while clean, still reeks of PoR. Not great. Feel suffers from the overcarbonation.
Pretty average. I can imagine it could be better super fresh: those tantalising hints of fruit on the nose may well be stronger. But I have a feeling this bottle has been sitting around for a little too long in the Adelaide Bier Shop's storeroom.
And they've been looking for an opportunity to move it on.
Reviewed by dgilks from Australia
2.96/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
2.96/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Cloudy golden colour with a small but creamy off-white head. Poor head retention.
Grainy malt aroma with a metallic, herbal edge to it. Not all that hoppy. Mild caramel.
Moderate grainy pale malt with some caramel. Slightly metallic. Mild citrus hops but it's not all that good.
Medium body with moderately-high carbonation. Decent.
A fairly poor attempt at an APA. Why don't Australian breweries understand that an APA needs hop flavour. It's a pretty basic requirement and not that hard to do. You just throw some little pellets in at the END of the boil and it all turns out okay.
Aug 16, 2011Grainy malt aroma with a metallic, herbal edge to it. Not all that hoppy. Mild caramel.
Moderate grainy pale malt with some caramel. Slightly metallic. Mild citrus hops but it's not all that good.
Medium body with moderately-high carbonation. Decent.
A fairly poor attempt at an APA. Why don't Australian breweries understand that an APA needs hop flavour. It's a pretty basic requirement and not that hard to do. You just throw some little pellets in at the END of the boil and it all turns out okay.
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