Surfrider
The Dudes' Brewing Company

 

A grainy front with a slight flavor followed by wheat. This is worth a taste and a buy.

Taste Rating in Words: It's surfing. Fun, but Sooooo much work.

 

 

 

Hazy, gold orange beer with a thick white head that leaves a sheet of lacing behind. The aroma is sweet malt, pineapple, pine and some citrus fruit. The taste is quite fruity and bitter with pineapple and orange flavors followed by nice bitter pine and complimented with a decent malt sweetness. This is a really nice and balanced APA.

 

Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a lot of carbonation. I got a nice foamy bone colored head and some nice lacing down the glass.

This one smells very hoppy with prevalent citrus and grapefruit scents blasting the nose. The hops are really overpowering any underlying scents.

The taste is fairly light with mostly a punch of grapefruit and pine like hops. Like the nose this is mostly hop notes on the flavor. An easy drinking and fairly tasty pale ale.

Mouth feel was pretty light with a crisp finish. The hop bitterness does linger a bit at the back of the mouth.

This beer is mostly about the hops and not much of a backbone to balance the hops out. Reminds me more of something like a sessions IPA than a pale ale. This one is a pretty nice offering from The Dudes for those looking for a refreshing hoppy drink.

Pours a clear dark straw color with a soapy white head that disappates quickly. Aroma is mandarin orange and pine, with a little citrus rind. Taste follows with mandarin orange, other nondescript citrus, pine, and something almost medicinal/metallic. Mouthfeel is light and too quickly gone for a pale ale. Overall, this is an average pale ale, although quite fresh and cold, it might be pretty drinkable.

 

Can from Whole Foods in Little Rock, Arkansas. Pale gold and body, slight haze. Small white collar. Pine and hops aroma. Hops, cleaning solution, pine. Mediocre.

 

 

Pours two finger of head on a hazy straw body.
The aroma is mostly lemon, grapefruit and orange. Really pleasant.
The taste is fine, but dominated by a metallic bitterness.
The texture is crisp and fizzy.

Abide by 2/26/16.

Pours a murky golden-orange with a foamy beige head that settles to wisps of film on top of the beer. Thin streaks of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of citrus fruit, citrus zest, and grapefruit juice aromas. Taste is much the same with citrus zest and orange juice flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of hop bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a good level of carbonation with a crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer with some juicy citrus forward hop flavors, but the smell is a bit subtle to me.

Serving type: can.