Drake's 1500 Pale Ale

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

Again, a nice clean white head. Looks like you might be able to float a dime, but not gonna try it! Orangy-yellow body. Frankly lacking aroma considered it’s labeled as "dry hopped." Don’t get me wrong. Aroma is pleasant and most noticeably of pine needles, but on the light side. Refreshing flavor. Nice bitterness of hay, pine and perhaps grapefruits. Body mouthfeel is average. Would be a good lawnmower beer for the IPA set!!

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

Orange medium aroma malt caramel fruit citrus hop. Taste the same not much in aroma and vlavour probably past best before sweet

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

On tap at the BN Brews Festival 1/30/10
Appearance: Golden with a small white head
Aroma: Citrus, sweet candy
Taste: Citrus, pine, sweet malts
This as a very good beer, I enjoyed it. Very drinkable and well balanced

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

A careful pour of the bottle still brings up a two inch light tan rocky head with a copper body and gold edges. The pour shows signs of an infected bottle. The aroma is a pulse of grapefruit tartness, orange peel and lemon with a faint mix of caramel, grainy malts and nuttiness in the background. The taste begins with grapefruit hops and quickly becomes more tart with lemon acidity. By midway the malts make an appearance and smooth out the tartness for a moment or two with roasted malts and nuttiness. The hop tartness and mild acidity retake the flavor with some malt roastiness taking the experience to the finish. If it was infected I still enjoyed the ride.

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

pours a good color with a nice medium orange hue with a light effervescence and a tiny bit of haze. There's a thin layer of ivory foam as well. The aroma has a nice, standard pale ale aroma with hops and some citrusy character. A little light in intensity, but even with that it's a little rough around the edges. The taste is much less raspy than the aroma, and the bitterness is a little rough at the end, but is at a low level so it works. Moderate hop character; orangey and grape fruity. It's not a sweet pale ale, more of a hoppy one. The mouth feel is medium body with a decent carbonation yielding a nice creaminess.

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

Nice use of hops here. I'd buy this 6-pack more often if they dated, but you can't trust the age of brews where this is available. Too bad - it's a nicely floral and citrusy hop driven pale ale. Well above average for the style when anywhere near fresh.

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

Enjoyed this many times while visiting the brewery. Fantastic aroma of mats, hops, citrus and floral characters come thru easily. An incredible balance of hops and malt make this too damned easy to drink. It's like it's on steriods or something because it smells and tastes like an IPA. It takes some serious talent to make this and keep the ABV this low. This is truly a great beer from a talented brewer.

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

Tasted on tap at the brewery. A medium orange gold colored pale ale. Small head with excellent lacing. Aroma is malty, citrusy and floral hops. A medium bodied pale ale. Malts are fruity, caramel, orange and pineapple. Hops are rather aggressive. Lots of grapefruit, citrusy and pine. Nice balance. It has the fruitiness of a Pale Ale with the hoppiness of a West Coast IPA. Would make a great session beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

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

Pours with an amber body topped by a thick head with a good amount of lacing. A little weak, but slightly sweet and a touch fruity with a very slight hoppiness and some grainy malt notes. Meidum bodied and smooth.