Fresh Hop
Postmark Brewing
- From:
- Postmark Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 6.52%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 19, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 12, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.86/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.86/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
650ml bottle - fresh-hopped with the Chinook varietal.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat chunky ecru head, which leaves a sparse array of wispy and sudsy lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, kind of pastry-like doughy caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some muddled tropical fruitiness, and a spicy, leafy, and grassy green hop bitterness. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lessened toasted caramel sweetness, red apples and generic pears, a still hard to differentiate exotic fruitiness, subtle flinty notes, and some plain earthy, leafy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly involved, via its swirling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, with perhaps just a touch of hop astringency taking things down a notch or two. It finishes off-dry, the malt keepin' it real, while the guest hop takes its last bows, knowing that it has kept up its end of the deal.
Overall, this is a well-rendered fresh-hop ale, the Chinook hops doing a bang-up job of showing what they're made of. Crisp, inviting, and easy to drink, all in a neat 'little' package, which is made all the more manageable by the sub-standard ABV - so, session ale, it is!
Nov 01, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat chunky ecru head, which leaves a sparse array of wispy and sudsy lace around the glass as it lazily recedes.
It smells of semi-sweet, kind of pastry-like doughy caramel malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, some muddled tropical fruitiness, and a spicy, leafy, and grassy green hop bitterness. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, a lessened toasted caramel sweetness, red apples and generic pears, a still hard to differentiate exotic fruitiness, subtle flinty notes, and some plain earthy, leafy, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly involved, via its swirling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, with perhaps just a touch of hop astringency taking things down a notch or two. It finishes off-dry, the malt keepin' it real, while the guest hop takes its last bows, knowing that it has kept up its end of the deal.
Overall, this is a well-rendered fresh-hop ale, the Chinook hops doing a bang-up job of showing what they're made of. Crisp, inviting, and easy to drink, all in a neat 'little' package, which is made all the more manageable by the sub-standard ABV - so, session ale, it is!
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