Sociable Pale Ale
Moody Ales

 

 

This beer's recipe must have changed recently as the new ratings are considerably higher than what they were a year ago and the ABV seems to have gone from 5.5 to 4.8. As it stands now, this is one of the better American Pale Ale I have drank in quite some time. Maybe is it just very fresh? Any beer with a prominent hop profile should be drinker as fresh as possible anyway so I might have just lucked out when seeing this one for the first time at my local BCLS. What a great beer! Highly recommend it!

 

650ml bottle - I very much like how they still call this a pale ale up front, and 'session beer' in the small print, in a nod to the pedantic morons out there.

This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves a stellar swath of cobwebbed lace around the glass as it lazily subsides.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, some ethereal caramel sweetness, a prominent hard water flintiness, subtle domestic citrus rind, and some tame leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is biscuity and bready caramel malt, a lesser pale graininess, still muddled citrus pith, some wet stone paths after a summer rainstorm minerality, and more plain leafy, earthy, and piney hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite thorough in its genial and somewhat coddling frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really cause for concern here, as such. It finishes off-dry, the lingering neutered malt and associated wan fruitiness holding court.

Overall, this is one of the better versions of this so-called 'new' style, as it makes out like a decent pale ale of old - malty to a point, and just hoppy enough to keep notions of an IPA out of our silly little heads. Enjoyable, and easy to drink, in the manner espoused by every label and meme out there around this unfortunately confusing concept.

Moody Ales 'Sociable Pale Ale' @ 4.8% , served from a 946 ml can purchased for $7.50
A-pour is gold from the can to a clear gold in the glass with a medium size white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-mild hops
T-crisp & clean tasting pale ale with a malty finish
MF-decent carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok pale ale
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