The Cold Pale Ale
Ska Brewing Co.
- From:
- Ska Brewing Co.
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.88 | pDev: 2.58%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 16, 2025
- Added:
- Aug 21, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Fermented and brewed like a lager, but hopped like a pale ale. Clean and crisp with a small amount of hoppy freshness for flavor. Slightly grainy with big notes of pine and grapefruit aroma.
Pairs great with cheeseburgers, Waldorf Salad and banana bread.
“Brewed with Bravo, Columbus, Cascade and Centennial hops”
Pairs great with cheeseburgers, Waldorf Salad and banana bread.
“Brewed with Bravo, Columbus, Cascade and Centennial hops”
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Liquidluker
3.97/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.97/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Not at all what I expected. An IPA with a grassy Pilsner sort of note. A real surprise, but a very good beer. Must try.
Oct 16, 2025
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev -2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Bright polished brass with fast-fading white froth; grapefruit peel, grain, and earthiness on the nose; cracker, lemon rind, dank, grass; dry, light, clean.
3.75 3.75 3.75 4 3.75
Bravo, Columbus, Cascade, Centennial
OK, so what is this?
There’s no mention of maize, or even pilsner malts, or fermenting at the warm end of the lager yeast range, so this isn’t quite a Cold IPA. The APA strength + 25 IBUs prove that.
But even if it was, the point of that style - which is unavoidably evoked in the name - is to let the hops shine through, which is understood to mean interesting hops. So why do this with some rough, old school varieties like Bravo + Columbus?
It’s well-crafted and clean and all - Ska do good work - plus the Centennial orange pokes out as it opens. But in the end, there are musty, bittering-hops notes to the flavours that, on top of the graininess that even the commercial description acknowledges, makes this just too hard to choke down for something designed to be easy.
Not as much fun as it thinks it is.
Aug 21, 20253.75 3.75 3.75 4 3.75
Bravo, Columbus, Cascade, Centennial
OK, so what is this?
There’s no mention of maize, or even pilsner malts, or fermenting at the warm end of the lager yeast range, so this isn’t quite a Cold IPA. The APA strength + 25 IBUs prove that.
But even if it was, the point of that style - which is unavoidably evoked in the name - is to let the hops shine through, which is understood to mean interesting hops. So why do this with some rough, old school varieties like Bravo + Columbus?
It’s well-crafted and clean and all - Ska do good work - plus the Centennial orange pokes out as it opens. But in the end, there are musty, bittering-hops notes to the flavours that, on top of the graininess that even the commercial description acknowledges, makes this just too hard to choke down for something designed to be easy.
Not as much fun as it thinks it is.
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