Pale Ale
Bomber Brewing

 

355ml can - another simply proffered, yet potentially agreeable offering from this Van City brewing concern.

This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some splendid layered sudsy cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee sweetness, some heady mixed peppercorn spiciness, and a decent leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitterness. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a waning caramel sweetness, more testy table-top pepper-mill spiciness, ethereal citrus and tropical fruity notes, and a consistent leafy, earthy, and weakly piney verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequately assertive in its heady frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, with just a modicum of hoppy bitterness fussing about here. It finishes trending dry, the mixed malt keeping things going on a straight path, while the basically understated hops moderate a sense of balance, as it were.

Overall, this is a decent enough version of the style, though one pushing more towards the English variant, as such. As always, Bomber Brewing comes through, though this time things seem a bit more confused than the norm - just sayin', 'cause no one else is.