Post-Hype Pale Ale
Zipline Brewing Co

A: The beer is quite hazy yellow in color. It poured with a finger high white head that has excellent retention properties and left lots of lacing down the sides of the glass.
S: Light to moderate aromas of citrusy hops and caramel malts are present in the nose.
T: The taste follows the smell, except that the malty flavors are a bit stronger and there is a light amount of bitterness.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied and a bit crisp on the palate with a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This pale ale has a very good balance between the malts and hops.

Serving type: can

I got a bottle of this beer from my good friend and old neighbor from the 'Wego. It poured a hazy golden with thin white head that is leaving some lace. The scent had dank citrus fruit notes. The taste was nicely balanced and easy to drink with dank fruit peel presence. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is a great beer.

 

11/2020 BOM

 

From a bottle. Pour has a 1" off-white to white fluffy foam head with a slightly hazy, orange to pale peach body. Scent has tropical citric notes present (orange, tangerine), along with something like stone fruit or a floral accent in the background. Taste is considerably more hoppy compared to the scent with citric hop bitterness shining through, followed by the more citric flavors, and the lighter notes at times seeming evident. Feel is on the lighter and crisper side, with the bitterness lingering in the aftertaste. Enjoyable (and sessionable) but would have personally enjoyed a bit more if the scent was a bit hoppier or the taste a bit less hoppy.

 

12 oz bottle, best by 11/13/20. Into Batch 19 Pint glass.

Pours a rather hazy golden amber color with a tall fluffy head of 2 fingers, receding slowly to 1.

Aroma is just a fruit dream. Tons of delicious juicy OJ, with mango and starfruit. This literally ranks up there with some of the best New England-style noses. Incredible.

Flavor brings lemons, orange rind, grass, juicy mango, slight nectarine, and a little bit of perfume.

Feel is juicy and acidic, but foregoes the creaminess in lieu of a sharp prickly attack. Leaves some pleasant resins and oils on the finish.

Overall, I really like this beer. It seems like a nicely balanced effort. It goes down really easy for a midwestern pale. It gets boring quickly though, so I couldn't do more than 1 in a row, but it's a nice little sipper.

Price paid : $1.99 / bottle
Would buy again : sure why not

Without getting into the beer snob intricacies (which have already been adequately noted), here’s what I observe -- five minutes after opening the bottle it’s three-fourths gone. Why? Because it’s a sleeper, just like Zipline calls it. It’s about time someone backed-off the hop and went for balance. Damned good beer that moved to the top of my list. Suddenly, my Nut Browns and ESBs are aging in the cooler, as I can’t get over how good this beer is.

Poured from a 12 ounce bottle into a Shaker pint glass, "best by" date 10-5-19.

APPEARANCE: pours a beautiful, cloudy, straw color with one-finger white head that slowly dissipated until a thin, unbroken layer of small bubbles remained, there is heavy lacing on the glass, medium carbonation, (I think?).

SMELL: the nose is initially fruity and citrus then bread,

TASTE: the taste follows the nose, initially fruity, pineapple citrus and then pine and sweet bread.

PALATE: medium body and carbonation.

OVERALL: this is a fine pale ale, it's a citrusy, hop forward pale ale that is definitely a notch below an IPA but just barely, I really like this beer and will seek it out again, I will recommend this to my friends at work for sure, Zipline is on my radar, well done!

12 ounce bottle. Pours a somewhat hazy pale gold with a nice white head. Aroma of citrus, tropical, and pine. Taste is grapefruit, mango, pineapple, orange, pine, and malt. Pretty good mild APA.

 

12oz bottle. Poured out a clear, golden orange color with a small, off-white head of foam. It smelled of orange, mango and pineapple. Sweet tropical fruit taste with caramel and a sharp bitterness.

A definite combination of the new school look, smell, and to a certain degree feel with the old school malt/hop balance.

Lightly amber medium hazed body with a nice, lace-producing head.

Nose is fruit blossom on the pour. There’s a little more realism as to the agriculture of a fruit with a vegetal green stem aspect showing up in a closer smell.

A mix of pith, rind, and tropical fruit notes without any tang or tartness, but a similar absence of sweet or juiciness. The malt has a light to medium toast to it and plays with the papaya, tropical flowers, and grapefruit pith.

A pale ale, yes, as I feel most new school IPAs are, this one seems to claims to be a “post-new school” pale ale. I think it meets its highly interpretive goal pretty well.

This is an interesting beer. It feels like and old school IPA. Pour looks nice - orange hued gold, tad-but of haze, nice head and lacing. Smell is somewhat subdued but the is definitely detectable citrus, melon, pine, grass and bready malt. Taste is tangy hops - I get grassy, touch of pine and citrus rind. The combination reminds me of cascade and chinook hops. I was shocked to see this is made with Citra, Mosaic, El Dorado and Amarilo. Three of those four are my favorites but I don’t get that flavor profile from this. There is definitely some caramel malt in here, and maybe some darker caramel malt - there might be a hint of dark raisin or anise in the back end of this. This beer also seems to trend slightly to the bitter side- I was surprised to see only 37 IBU. Not my favorite flavor profile from a Pale Ale, but it is well made.