Geary's Pale Ale
D.L. Geary Brewing Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

11/2021 BOM

A bottle poured into a pint glass (from a bom club). Look had a dense and fine 1/2" off-white foam head with a clear amber (slightly on the lighter amber) body. Scent has a malty sweetness to it with some secondary herbal/floral hops. Taste is much more expected for this variety; more of a biscuity malt and a much stronger herbal bitterness from the hops. Feel is on the medium side with a slightly bitter aftertaste. Pretty well hits the EPA style -- unfortunately just not one I'm a huge fan of.

 

 

 

 

Dark golden amber, floral, clean smell, light carbonation, nice lasting head. Slightly sweet, hoppy taste, lasting hints of bubblegum(?). Delicious, would pair well with seafood, not too hoppy.

Pours a pale amber with a cream colored head that leaves some nice lace.

Biscuit malt and piney herbal floral hops.

Taste follows nose with a highly carbonated lively mouthfeel.

i don't like IPA's...but this one , i can taste the wheat in it, underneath the bitter...and it's more like orange peel, than grapefruit

 

 

 

 

 

Born in Maine, i felt it was wrong that I had never had a Geary’s pale ale, really the beer that started it all. Doing this review however, proved to be very difficult. Beer was copper colored, per usual of pale ales. Smell of hops and malts, pretty simple. On the piney/herbal side, with a splash of biscuit. Taste was underwhelming. Very basic, and surprisingly malt forward with bitter background noise. My bottle stated 5.2% abv. This beer was very light, may I say water. A little under carbonated per style. I really wanted to like this beer, but I just was underwhelmed. My original score would have been 2.75 per style. But then I pondered. This beer, in 1988, would have been phenomenal, and much different than traditionally available beers in the area. I’m glad the recipe has stayed the same, and allowed myself to try something from that era, as opposed to a recipe change to modernize. In that case, i would rate 3.25 for style.

 

 

 

 

Bottle. Clear amber. Receding frothy head which leaves a wispy layer.
Vibrant malt aroma with a touch of balancing hop which continues into the taste.
Medium carbonation and body.
A relatively straightforward bitter which replicates many from English brewers.

16-oz. can required an easy pour into a 20-oz. mug to produce a two-finger sized egg shell white frothy head that shrinks to a ring with minimal lacing. Clear reddish copper color shows orange-copper in front of light.
Sweet malt and faint hops dominate the smell with a hint of banana and cloves.
Taste has sweet malt with some citrus and apple at first then switches to a drier malt flavor in the middle with a bitter hop finish. There is a bitter hop bite at the end that does not linger.
Feel is medium bodied with proportional carbonation that is balanced and maintained throughout the drink.
On the dark side and a tad sweet for the style. Overall a smooth easy drinker, good balance of sweet malt and bitter hops.

 

A good classic IPA. Shout out to an older micro establishment, who has been making a great beer for decades.

 

 

 

 

12 oz. bottle poured into a nonic style pint glass.

Clear and copper in the glass it sports about one finger of whitish lathery head with a bit of lacing.

The nose is fairly weak and malty. It is mildly bitter and tastes of pale malt, it isn't unbalanced but the hop character is subdued. Dry, crisp and smooth this is a decent and drinkable English.

 

 

 

Part of a Beer of the Month...never had this brewer before but I like this one a lot...clean, dry and crisp with great hoppy smell and finish. Hope I can find this one again down here on Long Island!

 

Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a dark pale amber color with a lighter foamy head and a small lacing around the edges. It had a darker malty smell, some biscuits and herbal to earthy notes. The taste had a slight malt along with a slight sweetness, slightly mild and balanced. The palate was about a medium feel. It had a good smoothness to it. Overall, this was a good beer that I might come back to.