Harvest Pale Ale
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.42 | pDev: 2.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 19, 2015
- Added:
- Nov 21, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.38/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I really don't know what to make of this one. I find the nose unappealing. A strange sourness that I attribute to the honey. Apparently there are also hops in this beer but the sweet honey overwhelms everything.
At least it was interesting. Big Rock hasn't made an interesting beer for a long time.
Dec 16, 2015At least it was interesting. Big Rock hasn't made an interesting beer for a long time.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, a sort of late-arriving harvest ale for a season that is rapidly turning into the next, much colder one around here.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with one finger of weakly puffy, wanly foamy, and mostly just caked dirty white head, which leaves some melting ice shelf lace around the glass as things quickly abate.
It smells of sugary pale and caramel malt, earthy honey, a soft apple and pear fruitiness, a touch of lost tourist yeast, and underwhelming leafy, weedy, and mildly floral hops. The taste is bready, doughy caramel malt, plain-Jane field honey, a now muddled light orchard fruit character, dead yeast, and more underwhelming leafy and weedy hoppiness.
The carbonation is barely adequate in its timid frothiness, the body a stocky middleweight, and generally smooth, with a small airy creaminess arising right from the get-go. It finishes sweet, both the malty and fruity essences having no trouble sloughing off the effects of the innocuous hop bitterness.
Overall, a typically unimpressive attempt by Big Rock to keep abreast of the evolving craft beer scene (not that there haven't been a few harvest ale turds of late from more genuine players - silly growing seasons!). Anyways, easy enough to drink, but the unchecked sweetness (honey, with an under-attenuated malt, sigh) surely limits this one's long-term sessionability.
Nov 22, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with one finger of weakly puffy, wanly foamy, and mostly just caked dirty white head, which leaves some melting ice shelf lace around the glass as things quickly abate.
It smells of sugary pale and caramel malt, earthy honey, a soft apple and pear fruitiness, a touch of lost tourist yeast, and underwhelming leafy, weedy, and mildly floral hops. The taste is bready, doughy caramel malt, plain-Jane field honey, a now muddled light orchard fruit character, dead yeast, and more underwhelming leafy and weedy hoppiness.
The carbonation is barely adequate in its timid frothiness, the body a stocky middleweight, and generally smooth, with a small airy creaminess arising right from the get-go. It finishes sweet, both the malty and fruity essences having no trouble sloughing off the effects of the innocuous hop bitterness.
Overall, a typically unimpressive attempt by Big Rock to keep abreast of the evolving craft beer scene (not that there haven't been a few harvest ale turds of late from more genuine players - silly growing seasons!). Anyways, easy enough to drink, but the unchecked sweetness (honey, with an under-attenuated malt, sigh) surely limits this one's long-term sessionability.
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