Casual sessionable moderate body punctuates dry-wooded Chinook hops with prickly grapefruit-peeled bittering to biscuit-y wheat backdrop. Lemon rind, green grape and apple illusions fade in and out of salty bottom.

Subdued session ale in a can retains dry soft-toned nature. Delicate hop-spiced fruiting stays just beneath helles lager-like honeyed biscuit surface. Effervescent apricot, pink grapefruit, pineapple and orange tang sweetens almond-toasted caramel malting. Metallic twang brings minor astringency to pleasant light body. 

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Straightforward moderate-bodied English pale ale brings biscuit-y cereal malts, sourdough yeast and toasted almond to orange marmalade midst. Orange-oiled citric undertones contrast helles bock-like bread crusting. Crisply easygoing session beer.

Aggressive pale ale stays smooth, clean and sessionable while maintaining bold citric bittering reminiscent of an India Pale Ale. Zesty grapefruit-peeled lemon rind bite stays above resinous earthen-grained dampness and mild piney prickle. Toasted caramel malting sweetens the moldy breaded backend.

Appeasing citron-hopped briskness will attract lighter thirsts as well as more refined tastes. Mandarin orange, lemon, lime and peach fruiting integrates floral honeysuckle perfuming. Faintest vodka-tinged boozing grapples tertiary clementine, pineapple, apricot and grapefruit illusions to mild biscuit spine. 

On tap at Ebenezer’s Bar in Sturbridge’s historic Publick House, gelatinous soft-toned ‘extra pale ale’ brings local wildflower honey creaming to sugary wheat setting. Subtle citric easement leads to floral-dried grassy hop meadow. Lemon custard, vanilla and butterscotch illusions waver.

Crisp, clean pale ale ‘goes down easy’ as sunny citric esters waft alongside mild lemon-seeded juniper bittering and resinous pine usurpation. Soft baked breaded spine stays frail, allowing unwanted phenol astringency to blemish moderate-bodied simplicity. Bitterer than all lighter bodied blondes.

Well-balanced grain-roasted almond toasting skirts musty fruited tartness to salty oceanic bottom. Light-spiced grapefruit, peach and green apple souring runs roughshod over astringent hop bittering.

Chameleonic ‘extra’ pale ale not far removed from a summery saison on the fruity end and a German helles bock on the toasted cereal grain side. Boasting ‘English refinement with American swagger,’ its honey wheat sugaring contrasts soured apricot-apple-peach-orange tartness and bittersweet pink grapefruit scamper. Ancillary pineapple, mango, guava and kiwi tropicalia receives herbal respite above veiled sourdough breading.

Middling canned ale suffers from tinny astringency, bland crystal malting and understated stylistic approach. Mild roasted hop bittering usurps casual orange-red fruiting. Tealeaf, lemongrass and citrus undertones soften bread-floured bottom of sessionable straw-hazed springtime fodder. On tap at Ambulance, sour yellow-fruited dry body goes awry due to musty barley graining, rotten vegetal musk and dirty earthen bottom. Lemony pineapple tartness and infrequent herbal spell lose steam to crusty rusticity. 

Simple sessionable pale ale for hip Brooklyn plebians. Woody hop dryness saturates dried orange-apricot tartness and minor grapefruit rind bittering. Caramel-malted almond toasting recedes beneath floral citric finish.

Slick, indistinct, lame. Astringent grassy-hopped orange-dried spicing develops mucky diacetyl buttering over doughy breading. Meager honeyed almond undertone fades. Stick with much better Smithwick’s Irish Red Ale instead.