Hop Trial Perle
Schlafly Beer - The Tap Room

Excellent golden color with hazy body and bright white head leaving ample lacing. Great mouthfeel. Clean and refreshing. Some spicy notes on the tail.

 

 

Pours a light golden straw color with a two finger fluffy white head. Aroma is lightly grassy, with hints of flowers and mint. Taste follows with a big whack of mint and floral notes, followed by a grassy and slightly spicy finish. Mouthfeel is medium, and a touch coating for a blonde, but not overly so. Overall, this beer is like the others in the hop trial lineup, in that it showcases the Ella hop quite well. I like some of the others better.

 

one of the better and more complete beers in this box. i love the learning that i gleaned from this mixed pack, each of these hops aside from chinook was somewhat foreign to me, so its nice to see what they do in such a simple yet well constructed base beer. perle has some really unique characteristics, its sort of like a super noble thing, with some of the grassy, spicy, and floral qualities we see in varietals like saaz, but with some more intensity, higher alpha, and citrus fruitiness. i get wet green lawn, light lime and grapefruit, tangerine peel, clover, and a vegetal bitterness, somewhat more robust in both aroma and flavor than i expected this to be, but all really agreeable characteristics, odell did a beer with perle, but it wasnt this distinct to me, so this is really the first i have tasted it in isolation and so forward, its great. the pale two row malt here seems like a perfect canvass for this hop, more so than some of the other beers in this box, the breadiness and body are appreciated, i think it gives the hops a little more space to express themselves, and there is great balance here overall. i think perle might be the most versatile of the hops from the beers in this box, again chinook aside. nice as a dry hop in a lighter style, but also with great potential to bitter and flavor an american pale ale or something like this. nicely done!

 

 

Gold in color with excellent clarity and a half inch of creamy off white head. The Perle hops smell earthy to grassy. I'm tasting grassy to earthy hops with a light grain to wheat backbone. The mouth is light, smooth, and crisp.

Poured out a clear, golden-yellow color with a small, white head of foam. It smelled earthy and a little nutty with toasted caramel. Tasted of sweet toasted caramel, grassy hop bitterness and an earthy quality.

 

This brew, on a base golden ale, is hazy and golden. Wonderful tall and firm, brilliant white head. The aroma is modest, a little hop note and some underlying pale malt. The hop taste, however, pops...spicy, herbal, earthy, and fresh. Full in body, lightly sweet, and very satisfying.