Pangaea Lilja's Pulling Boat Pale Ale

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

Bottled@Monks Café Sveavägen, Stockholm. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wood, bread and some mild notes of cookies. Flavour is rather nice caramel, fruits, woood and also some slight bready and nectary notes.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Beer pours with a thick, off-white sticky head that hangs to the side of my pint glass. Nose is subdued piney citrus with a hint of carmel malts. Appearance is golden amber with tiny bubbles - almost perfect carbonation. Mouth feel is clean, dry and crisp, not heavy or cloying - a well-attenuated pale ale. Flavor is definitely west-coast pale ale with the citrus pine hops marrying well with the malts, but not overdone as the finish is bitter yet not astringently so. Hops must be low-alpha nobel hops...Cascade is my guess? An easy-drinking, clean pale ale. Certainly worth a look - cool label if you are into wooden boats.

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

This brew pours a light golden colour with a medium sized white head. aromas of faint pine and soft hops. A little unbalanced in my opinion, sweeter then normal for an APA.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Poured a still, deep golden color with a pure white foamy head with large bubbles and little nose. A clean, smooth, slightly bitter taste with mild hops in what little finish there was. Characteristics are more English than American; more smooth than crisp, and with a more subtle hop flavor and more obvious background maltiness. This boat is adrift on a calm, lazy day; no big American outboards here.