Firehouse Chukkar Ale
Firehouse Chukkar Ale
Rated 3.425 by BeerPals
Brewed by Firehouse Brewing Company
Rapid City, SD, United States
Style: English Strong Ale
8% Alcohol by Volume
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If you are ever in Rapid City, SD, you must try this beer. The aroma is delicious. The flavor profile is delicate. The mouthfeel due to the steady, well-balanced carbonation adds to its overall drinkability. The beer pours a translucent light golden-red color. The head, purposeful in size, leaves a decent off white residual lace as a fine cover upon the glass. The first thing you sense is a very mild and pleasant apricot-peach in the nose. Not a hint of astringence. Crisp and clean with the start just the right amount of sweet, lots of malt, the top well-balanced in feel. Finish is perfect: the hops are subtle in their spicy bite, with no unpleasant aftertaste. Malt sweetness is mostly derived from residual sugars due to the meager hop bitterness. Finishes light, crisp and clean - perfect with food. A unique experience. Your palate is graced with a number of complex flavors at first, and the joy is sorting them out and identifying: spicy yet sweet hops, with just a hint of clean tartness; a gentle undertow of soft malts to give it a full bodied English Pale Ale balance. Yeast adds a little to the body and beautifully tempers the experience. There is no alcohol taste. An initial simplicity upfront is ensued by sweet malt, then tapers quickly. Exquisitely crafted. Would to heaven someone with a lot of money will begin bottling Chukkar Pale Ale! There is nothing close to it in my area. Without sounding tendentious, (I own no stock in Firehouse Brewery!) this is the best beer I have tasted in 33 years of tasting. Period.
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| Overall Rank | 4745 |
| Overall Percentile | 91.1 |
| Style Rank | 61 of 359 |
| Style Percentile | 83 |
| Lowest Score | 4.7 |
| Highest Score | 4.7 |
| Average Score | 4.700 |
| Weighted Score | 3.425 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 10
If you are ever in Rapid City, SD, you must try this beer. The aroma is delicious. The flavor profile is delicate. The mouthfeel due to the steady, well-balanced carbonation adds to its overall drinkability. The beer pours a translucent light golden-red color. The head, purposeful in size, leaves a decent off white residual lace as a fine cover upon the glass. The first thing you sense is a very mild and pleasant apricot-peach in the nose. Not a hint of astringence. Crisp and clean with the start just the right amount of sweet, lots of malt, the top well-balanced in feel. Finish is perfect: the hops are subtle in their spicy bite, with no unpleasant aftertaste. Malt sweetness is mostly derived from residual sugars due to the meager hop bitterness. Finishes light, crisp and clean - perfect with food. A unique experience. Your palate is graced with a number of complex flavors at first, and the joy is sorting them out and identifying: spicy yet sweet hops, with just a hint of clean tartness; a gentle undertow of soft malts to give it a full bodied English Pale Ale balance. Yeast adds a little to the body and beautifully tempers the experience. There is no alcohol taste. An initial simplicity upfront is ensued by sweet malt, then tapers quickly. Exquisitely crafted. Would to heaven someone with a lot of money will begin bottling Chukkar Pale Ale! There is nothing close to it in my area. Without sounding tendentious, (I own no stock in Firehouse Brewery!) this is the best beer I have tasted in 33 years of tasting. Period.