American Pale Ale
Postmark Brewing

Appearance - Pours a clear pale copper with three fingers of foamy off white head.

Smell - citrus and piney hops, peach, apricot, bready malts, and hint of pine resin.

Taste - Bitter citrus and piney hops followed by the peach, bready malts. The hint of pine resin follows suit.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with the hops lingering.

Overall - A pleasant and enjoyable APA. This is an easy drinking brew that delivers on their motto on the label.

 

650ml bottle - 'Peach | Hop Forward | Apricot'. Wow, these guys sure do like their variants on this style, eh?

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly pale beige head, which leaves some distorted descending cloud form lace around the glass as it slowly but surely subsides.

It smells of gritty and biscuity pale malt, a prominent hard water flintiness, generic breakfast cereal, subtle orange and stone fruit esters, and some understated leafy, musty, and wet pinecone green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery pale malt, more wet stone paths after a hard rain, muddled domestic citrus rind, a mild earthy yeastiness, and more leafy, piney, and musky herbal verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly easy-going in its evenhanded frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the piney and herbal notes take a minor tithe here. It finishes trending dry, that flinty character really starting to take a hold of my various palates.

Overall, this is a nice introduction (I think?) to the Idaho 7 hop varietal, with its fruity and forest floor detritus yin/yang thing. Tasty, and easy to drink, I'm quite impressed by this Left Coast (Canadian edition) brewing concern's take on the hops in their quick-release offerings.