Post-Hype Pale Ale
Zipline Brewing Co
Beer Geek Stats:
- Style:
- American Pale Ale (APA)
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 4.06 | pDev: 5.67%
- Reviews:
- 6
- Ratings:
- From:
- Zipline Brewing Co
- Nebraska, United States
- Avail:
- Rotating
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Notes:
We have learned a lot by crafting hoppy beers of every shape and stripe: bitter, smooth, juicy, hazy, sweet, sour, etc. This beer is our ode to the ales that time forgot: a deliciously drinkable hop-forward, malt-balanced Pale Ale.
37 IBU
37 IBU
Reviews: 6
| Ratings: 9
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Reviews by 22Blue:
3.84/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
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.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
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.
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More User Reviews:
3.88/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
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.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
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.
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4.07/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
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!
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look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
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!
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3.84/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
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.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
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.
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4.6/5 rDev +13.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 3.75
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.
Empyrean had to back off the IBUs with their Mind Over Mango IPA, and it’s still hopped beyond what’s necessary. Tap cleanup was a gripe, too, though tropical fruit beers have become worth the trouble.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 3.75
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.
Empyrean had to back off the IBUs with their Mind Over Mango IPA, and it’s still hopped beyond what’s necessary. Tap cleanup was a gripe, too, though tropical fruit beers have become worth the trouble.
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4.28/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
3.96/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
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.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
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.
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Post-Hype Pale Ale from Zipline Brewing Co
Beer rating:
4.06 out of
5 with
9 ratings
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