Base Camp West Coast Pale Ale
Fernie Brewing Co.

An excellent full bodoied mouthfilling Ale that hits all the right notes. North American ESB like and that's a good thing in my books!!

 

 

Pretty malty for a WC pale

Pours more amber than pale with medium head an nice lacing.

Nose is pineapple and grapefruit with malt sweetness.

Flavor usalt forward with some citrus and dryness at the end.

Fernie Brewing 'Base Camp' @ 5.8% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $5.70
A-pour is gold from the bottle to an amber in the glass with a large white leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-hints of citrus with caramel malt in the background
T-clean & crisp
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok pale ale
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650ml bottle - aaaah, makes me want to take my wee son to the mountains!

This beer pours a mostly clear, medium copper amber colour, with a near-teeming tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly ecru head, which leaves some broadly rendered sudsy cloud pattern lace around the glass as it gently sinks out of sight.

It smells of grainy and doughy caramel malt, muddled tropical fruit notes, some further domestic orange and white grapefruit citrus rind, a hard water flintiness, and more leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, some guava, pineapple, and mango exotic fruitiness (which comes at the expense of the citrus notes), more wet stone essences, and some understated leafy, soapy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, the hops essentially making all nice and such right about here. It finishes off-dry, the malt not yet giving up the ghost, while the lingering hops, er, set up camp.

Overall, this is a rather engaging and highly enjoyable version of the style, the varied hops more flavourful than bitter, as proclaimed. Easy to drink, and yeah, it is inspiring in me the desire to, well, go West, man!