Dale's Coffee Pale Ale
Alley Kat Brewing Company
- From:
- Alley Kat Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.51 | pDev: 4.27%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 01, 2020
- Added:
- May 04, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
-
-
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by WanderingRonin from Canada (AB)
3.36/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.36/5 rDev -4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Slightly hazy appearance to it with a darker amber color, pouring with two and a half fingers of tan colored, rocky looking head that has an excellent retention to it and leaves lots of lacing.
Light aroma of coffee with a faint fruity whiff of apricot and citrus zest.
Less coffee and more solidly, fruity forward then expected, nice orange and apricot flavor to it with a earthy coffee note coming in towards the back of the palate.
Medium bodied with a slightly highish carbonation to and a mild biscuty malt note giving a fairly light sweetness to it.
Back end starts with a little bitterness that grows to a moderate amount as it warms, with hints of zesty orange peel and traces of pithy waxy grapefruit rind and featuring a light but aromatic, roast coffee flavor that lingers on the aftertaste.
Mar 01, 2020Light aroma of coffee with a faint fruity whiff of apricot and citrus zest.
Less coffee and more solidly, fruity forward then expected, nice orange and apricot flavor to it with a earthy coffee note coming in towards the back of the palate.
Medium bodied with a slightly highish carbonation to and a mild biscuty malt note giving a fairly light sweetness to it.
Back end starts with a little bitterness that grows to a moderate amount as it warms, with hints of zesty orange peel and traces of pithy waxy grapefruit rind and featuring a light but aromatic, roast coffee flavor that lingers on the aftertaste.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.66/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.66/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - the latest in their Back Alley Brews series. Cold pressed coffee and a citrusy pale ale is this one's marketing claim to fame.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent scary woods pattern lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of acrid artisanal coffee grounds, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a strange vegetal spiciness, faint domestic citrus rind, and some earthy, musty, and floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, dry cafe-au-lait, some green chili heat, muddled orange and white grapefruit peel, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the coffee and edgy hop acridity make more than a minor fuss at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hops (if that's where the spice is coming from) pushing out any lingering coffee or malt aspirations.
Overall - yeah, this one kind of goes off the rails rather quickly. There's fancy-schmancy cuppa Joe up front, sure, but then that spicy character takes charge, hardly letting the purported citrusy notes get a word in edgewise. Interesting, but not for the right reasons.
May 07, 2018This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent scary woods pattern lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of acrid artisanal coffee grounds, gritty and grainy cereal malt, a strange vegetal spiciness, faint domestic citrus rind, and some earthy, musty, and floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery caramel malt, dry cafe-au-lait, some green chili heat, muddled orange and white grapefruit peel, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and sort of smooth, as the coffee and edgy hop acridity make more than a minor fuss at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the hops (if that's where the spice is coming from) pushing out any lingering coffee or malt aspirations.
Overall - yeah, this one kind of goes off the rails rather quickly. There's fancy-schmancy cuppa Joe up front, sure, but then that spicy character takes charge, hardly letting the purported citrusy notes get a word in edgewise. Interesting, but not for the right reasons.
We love reviews (150 characters or more)! Check out: How to Review a Beer. You don't need to get fancy. Drop some thoughts on the beer's attributes (look, smell, taste, feel) plus your overall impression. Something that backs up your rating and helps others. Thanks!