New York Pale Ale
Sloop Brewing

 

 

 

 

 

Tried at Bimi, 8/17/25

 

Showing that they're more than just thin-crust pizza and bagels, Sloop Brewing brings New York's own Excelsior hops to the table with a bold pale ale display that's unique and individualistic.

Their New York Pale Ale hits the glass with a light copper and amber hue cast in a mild hop haze. As the perfume of tropical, citrus and stone fruit fill the nose, its initial taste is rife with dry caramel, nuttiness, toast and granola. As the featured hops enliven the palate with fruit notes of lemon, apricot, mango and red grapefruit, the session steers in a bitter-forward direction framed with additional and final flavors of lemongrass, verbena, green tea and peppery pine.

Medium bodied, balanced and hop-forward, the session has the foundation of traditional American Pale Ale but with an elevated and updated hop flare.

Pours darker than expected for a normal pale ale. This one is amber in color with an off white, frothy head. Nose is malty and pine. Taste is fairly weak. Only taste a watered down malty flavor. Decent bitterness that builds.

 

On tap at a local.
Brewed with some if not all NY hops and malt.
It poured a bit flat , low white head that kicked up with encouragement.
Beautifully clear, pale amber with slow carbonation bubbles rising.
Aroma is fresh wort sweetness balanced by herbal, sprucey hops. No orange juice or fruit cup in the nose.
Flavor is very nice mix of mild caramel malt sweetness and coniferous, grassy hop bite at the back.
Almost British in profile with yeasty esters dancing with subtle hop complexity on my tongue.
Some flavor hops noticed but basically a classic, well balanced malty Pale Ale with firm bitterness on the finish.