Polly's Pale Ale
Hell's Basement
- From:
- Hell's Basement
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.69 | pDev: 4.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 24, 2017
- Added:
- Sep 01, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
946ml crowler from the brewery, thanks be to my Sherbrooke Liquor cohort Mark for schlepping this back to me from his recent whirlwind tour of newborn southern Albertan breweries.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fat-ass fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some decent layered sudsy lace around the glass as it evenly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and bready caramel malt, a none too subtle buttered biscuit character, a touch of untethered yeast, subtle spicy mixed peppercorn notes, and barely off-setting leafy, citrusy, and verdant hop bitters. The taste is more semi-sweet, grainy and caramel-focused maltiness, indistinct bruised orchard fruit, an ephemeral peppery essence, a faint sense of roasty ashiness, and some still kind of muddled citrusy, herbal, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the required supportive job via its quotidian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a subtle creaminess milling about once things warm up a tad. It finishes on the sweet side, with the lingering biscuity caramel character holding a shotgun that would deter any sort of misguided suitor.
Overall, this nascent brewing operation's pale ale tends toward the sweet, which I can by no means fault them for, given the stereotypical pap propagated by those who seem to know better. However, in this case, it might very well be that they do - Polly want a cracker to go with all that sugary goodness?
Sep 01, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fat-ass fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some decent layered sudsy lace around the glass as it evenly sinks away.
It smells of grainy and bready caramel malt, a none too subtle buttered biscuit character, a touch of untethered yeast, subtle spicy mixed peppercorn notes, and barely off-setting leafy, citrusy, and verdant hop bitters. The taste is more semi-sweet, grainy and caramel-focused maltiness, indistinct bruised orchard fruit, an ephemeral peppery essence, a faint sense of roasty ashiness, and some still kind of muddled citrusy, herbal, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate for the required supportive job via its quotidian frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a subtle creaminess milling about once things warm up a tad. It finishes on the sweet side, with the lingering biscuity caramel character holding a shotgun that would deter any sort of misguided suitor.
Overall, this nascent brewing operation's pale ale tends toward the sweet, which I can by no means fault them for, given the stereotypical pap propagated by those who seem to know better. However, in this case, it might very well be that they do - Polly want a cracker to go with all that sugary goodness?
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