Great Scot! An Organic Pale Ale!

The label design made me think American craft brew, but indeed this one is from http://www.caledonian-brewery.co.uk/brewery_home.html Caledonian Brewery, Edinburgh.  There is a slight essence of butterscotch in the bouquet, along with a dose of hops and a final breath of alcohol.  It has a sweet quality as well.  This honey-colored ale is quite effervescent, sports a [...]

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Bluegrass Brewing Company’s (Louisville, KY) American Pale Ale has a lot to live up to if you start by admiring the amazing pour.  It’s deep gold, sports a big, fluffy head and leaves lots of lacing.  Its hoppy-sweet bouquet does have a hint of bubble soap at first, but is not entirely unpleasant.  Maybe the recollections of [...]

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R.J. King Wing Walker Pale Ale

What a pleasant surprise.  I think City Brewery is getting better.  Having sampled their wares in the first few months of their existence and thinking it was worse than the 1982 version of Wisconsin Club (that, in my books is hideously bad – the taste of rust and green beans comes to mind) it’s good [...]

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Bar Harbor Brew

There’s a great restaurant in Bar Harbor, Maine, called Jack Russell’s.  Nice bar, nice steaks and wonderful hosts and servers.  On tap they had 3 or 4 varieties of, brewed onsite.  Actually, just across the parking lot, at the Maine Coast Brewing Company, a true microbrewery.  Their Pale Ale has a great yeasty bouquet with [...]

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