So Broken Top Bottle Shop had a keg of Worthy's Go Tim Xtra Pale last night for everyone to try, and I have to say, I'm a bit underwhelmed. The beer was a bit too light on "watered down" for my taste. I guess I expected a bit more from a brewery with so much funding and a having a huge brewery under construction. Anyone else try any yet?
It's a nice, clean, NW pale ale. As Carl (the owner of the Station) put it, "It tastes like a Chad Kennedy beer." I wasn't blown away, but then again I wasn't really expecting to be. Frankly, it's pretty much what I expected from the first batch on a new system. If it were me, I wouldn't want to risk wasting a shitload of ingredients and cash on some high ABV monster beer without taking the brew system for a test drive, making sure the kinks are worked out, and figuring out all the variables like mash efficiency. In any case, I wouldn't judge them too harshly based on this. Give them a few batches to dial everything in.
To be fair to the OP I would say the name is a bit misleading. At copper colored and 6.3% the Xtra seems to be referring to it being somewhat bigger than a regular pale rather than being lighter (i.e. paler). But it is a calibration beer and it is actually quite tasty.
