Pale Ale
Prancing Pony Brewery
- From:
- Prancing Pony Brewery
- Australia
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.22 | pDev: 6.52%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 18, 2020
- Added:
- Jul 02, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by baumaxx1 from Australia
3.46/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.46/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Appearance - Clear golden honey colour, pours a 1 finger head which dissipates to nothing, lots of lacing, minimal effervesene and a small amount of haze.
Smell - Honey, mandarin orange, guava, pineapple, mango, elderfower, and caramel, with a slight hint of buttery biscuit. Quite pleasant - tropical, but mellowed out with a healthy malt body,
Taste - Starts quite clean with a slighty honey and floral beginning, which quickly turns to a big and bitter grapefruit hit. That big grapefruit zest hop flavour is dominant in the mid body. A hit of that biscuit malt in the aftertaste, but it's ever so faint. The hop flavour is very similar to a Coopers Pale Ale if it was supercharged, except here the earthy/dry yeasty bitterness from the Pride of Ringwood (or similar) hops is a bit overdone.
Mouthfeel - Medium body, slight tingle but minimal fizz, a satisfying amount of oil, and slight cream. Maybe slightly on the watery side, but refreshing. Again, the bitterness and peppery bite make this a little challenging to drink.
Overall - After a promising aroma, the hops overpower in this brew, resulting in a pale which both smothers any complexity which may be in there, and is not very sessionable. Not their best.
Dec 18, 2020Smell - Honey, mandarin orange, guava, pineapple, mango, elderfower, and caramel, with a slight hint of buttery biscuit. Quite pleasant - tropical, but mellowed out with a healthy malt body,
Taste - Starts quite clean with a slighty honey and floral beginning, which quickly turns to a big and bitter grapefruit hit. That big grapefruit zest hop flavour is dominant in the mid body. A hit of that biscuit malt in the aftertaste, but it's ever so faint. The hop flavour is very similar to a Coopers Pale Ale if it was supercharged, except here the earthy/dry yeasty bitterness from the Pride of Ringwood (or similar) hops is a bit overdone.
Mouthfeel - Medium body, slight tingle but minimal fizz, a satisfying amount of oil, and slight cream. Maybe slightly on the watery side, but refreshing. Again, the bitterness and peppery bite make this a little challenging to drink.
Overall - After a promising aroma, the hops overpower in this brew, resulting in a pale which both smothers any complexity which may be in there, and is not very sessionable. Not their best.
Rated by Flyingvee
3.01/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.01/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Looks better than it tastes. Prefer the dark Pony.
Apr 02, 2015
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.49/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours a golden colour, very light haze. Head is listless, thin rim of bubbly lace. Fairly bland and unimpressive.
Smells quite malty, with caramel. Decent tang on there - citrus, paw-paw and mango. Quite subtle and a bit sweet, but OK.
Taste is fairly tangy - fair amount of citrus zest, some nectar and a touch of honey. Gets a bit yeasty late-mid but not too much. Decent malt presence. Quite nice drinkin'.
Full, little bit slinky and smooth. Very nice.
Inoffensive, but flavoursome pale. Quite a decent brew.
Sep 20, 2013Smells quite malty, with caramel. Decent tang on there - citrus, paw-paw and mango. Quite subtle and a bit sweet, but OK.
Taste is fairly tangy - fair amount of citrus zest, some nectar and a touch of honey. Gets a bit yeasty late-mid but not too much. Decent malt presence. Quite nice drinkin'.
Full, little bit slinky and smooth. Very nice.
Inoffensive, but flavoursome pale. Quite a decent brew.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.17/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.17/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Bottle shared with me by @LaitueGonflable. These guys claim to be Australia's first "fire brewed" brewery—which as far as I can tell means that they directly heat their vessels rather than steam-jacketing, an interesting but I think puzzling choice of marketing gimmick (all of the bottles are emblazoned with "FIRE BREWED").
Pours a muddied golden colour with some hazing. No head, just a very thin ring of white bubbles around the edge. Very light in the body overall, and a little unappealing in the glass.
Nose is interesting at least, perhaps not "citric" as they describe themselves though. I get some rosewater, a little pepper and an earthy rather than citric or fruity hop presence: floral but still relatively sharp. It's not bad.
The palate is disappointing. Almost immediately there's a cloying yeast character throughout and a earthy, brittle funk that I always associate with Pride of Ringwood. Light entry, some vegetal characters and a peppery bite on the back that clings a little bit too long. Aftertaste tastes like old, dry, brown lemon skin with more of that lingering pepper.
Feel is slippery but very light.
Overall, I don't love it. In some senses, it's fine, and it's not undrinkable. But in the world of pale ales, there are already so many good examples. We really don't need another sub-par one.
Jul 02, 2013Pours a muddied golden colour with some hazing. No head, just a very thin ring of white bubbles around the edge. Very light in the body overall, and a little unappealing in the glass.
Nose is interesting at least, perhaps not "citric" as they describe themselves though. I get some rosewater, a little pepper and an earthy rather than citric or fruity hop presence: floral but still relatively sharp. It's not bad.
The palate is disappointing. Almost immediately there's a cloying yeast character throughout and a earthy, brittle funk that I always associate with Pride of Ringwood. Light entry, some vegetal characters and a peppery bite on the back that clings a little bit too long. Aftertaste tastes like old, dry, brown lemon skin with more of that lingering pepper.
Feel is slippery but very light.
Overall, I don't love it. In some senses, it's fine, and it's not undrinkable. But in the world of pale ales, there are already so many good examples. We really don't need another sub-par one.
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