Lime Light Pale Ale
Black Oak Brewing Co.

Cask at Volo Cask Days 2009. I'm guessing this is just the pale ale with limes.

Pours a lightly hazed copper orange, medium sized white head forms, settles to a thin ring around the glass, no real lacing.

Smell is nice, fresh lime juice, tropical, but still has the malts, caramel and biscuit, lemons and orange, very fresh aroma, I dig it.

Taste is similar, sharp lime flavour, some acidity, caramel and biscuit middle, light floral, lemons and more lime, simple but works well.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied with low carbonation. This would be good on tap too. I've discovered I kind of like limes in beer.

This beer was an absolute bitch to pour at Volo's 5th Annual Cask Days. I spent the very first session manning the Toronto station, and I guess the lime hadn't settled yet, and the flesh was clogging the tap. The beer would start to pour okay and then tail off to a few drops. I probably got two pints out of it all night. Gladly everything is settled and ready to go when I turn up to drink it two days later.

Pours a lightly hazed orange with a tight white cap which drops a few patches of lace on the glass as it dies. Pale malt mixes in with freshly squeezed lime in a straightforward, but pleasant and clean, aroma. Perhaps Black Oak's pale is used as a base here because you can tell there's a solid beer under all the key lime flavour. Nice pale malts, but dominated by lime, which grows as time goes by, and provides a lightly puckering and bitter refresher. This would make an excellent summer beer! Medium-light body and light carbonation.

Finally a lime light I can drink!