Berkshire Steel Rail Extra Pale Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Went to lunch the other day with an old friend this was on tap so lets give it a try. Average looking yellow fluid. No head, poor thin lacing. Did not finish the glass. Some malt in the beginning with saltine cracker biscuit flavor following up continuing into total bicuit aftertaste- Will not try again. my opinion-a waste of water and brewing ingredients.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Fairly standard EPA nose with a bit more biscuit and malty notes. Pale to medium gold body with a very nice head, good retention, OK lace. I loved he mouth of this, very creamy with carbonation just so. Quite full bodied for its style. I also really liked the flavor but said to myself, this is gonna get slaughtered on BP. I think the extra in "extra pale" has to do with very subtle (most will say under) hopping. Really good malt backbone is the predominant taste here but its nicely balanced, very smooth and drinkable! A really clean biscuity brew, check this one out! RERATE 6/8/13 A bit too sweet for an APA and a touch timid overall. Some grassy notes really a bit off for the style, knocking this one down a bit. RERATE 5/29/14 Just getting worse, came in a can this time (not necessarily a bad thing) , very small short lived head, nose that does not last, mouth thinner, funky buttery notes in the taste, still drinkable.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Poured a bright golden amber with a thick frothy head that died down to a thin layer. Aroma is grapefruit juice, orange rind, and some biscuit. Flavor starts with sweet citrus, oranges and grapefruit, followed by a sharp bitterness, that melds into lots of grapefruit citric and fresh orange rinds. A bit one-dimensional for my tastes, but a nice quaffable pale ale overall.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Another beer brought back from far-away lands to the Foam On The Brain meeting -- this one coming all the way from New England.... ;^)

It's really not fair, though. O'Brien's has a ton of hoppy beers on-tap at all times..., and the Foamies and Barley Enginners that attend our monthly meetings brew n' drink mass quantities of West Coast Pales and IPAs. So what is the odds of this getting it's just due as a tamer East Coast Pale Ale?

Thankfully, enough of us were there (with expierence dealing with the New Englander methods of brewing beer) to give this a valid review. And putting aside such obvious things as "this is not nearly bitter enough to compre to Sierra Nevada" (duh!)..., this still isn't all that interesting, regardless.

I have to say that the malt bill was pretty interesting -- very biscuity and bready. But even considering that the hop profile wasn't intended to be all that assertive, I still think it falls a little too short for the style.

This is indeed *extra* Pale.... in that I don't think it really even falls into the Pale Ale category at all. Maybe a Bitter or an ESB, but I guess that doesn't sell very well in some parts of the country....

Not bad, but just seems a little limp and non-commital...
//TB

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 4

Pretty sure I got a bad draft from a bartender at Westwood Pub, who was not too knowledgeable. This one poured pretty flat and only had a strong malty aroma. Flavor was much of the same with almost no hoppiness detected. Somthing went wrong with the batch, or this just isn't a pale ale.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Wasn't a huge fan of this beer at all, which was a bit of a let down because I'd tried another by this brewer and liked it very well. It tasted very bland, if a beer can and had little to no excitement to it. It wasn't bad neccessarily, but Iwouldn't get it again. It had a sour, corn like taste that didn't go over well, even after a few.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

The second of the Berkshire's beers I've tried and I must say I liked the other more (Berkshire Ale). I'm having a little trouble viewing this as a true Pale Ale. Pours a golden color with a thin white head. Taste is sweet, with a corn-like flavor in there with very subtle hops. Not very hoppy at all. Reminds me more of a Lager than a Pale Ale and an earlier poster compared it to a Harp and I must agree with that. Still it's a pretty refreshing beer and I'd say average overall.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

On tap. Light, and refreshing. Light yellow in color with a lasting head. Hoppy. Ok beer. Good

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Bottle. How is this an APA? Tastes to me like a pinsner. Light color, dough aroma.If I didn’t know better, I’d say it looked and maybe even tasted, a bit like Harp. No real hop taste and not sweet. Just not my kind of beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours with a cloudy amber gold body topped by a thin head and good lace. Sweet and fruity (lemon and berries)hop aroma. Sweet fruity (lemon and berries) hop flavor with a slightly hoppy finish. Medium bodied, slightly dry and smooth.