It’s been a nice, long, relaxing day here at Casa de Crisco.
A power outage thwarted my plans for getting stuff done around the house, and I
somehow took it easy despite having a few tasks on my plate. To reward my day of sloth, I am having a pre-dinner
cocktail and letting Pandora do its thing.
The station, Vampire Weekend, the beer, Real Ale Brewing
Company’s Brewers’ Cut #1, Signature Hop Pale Ale, featuring Hercules hops.
The American pale ale, when decanted into a pint glass, has
a nice burnt orange color to it with a very slight tint showing up in the
mostly white head. Carbonation is very active, and it takes an experienced hand
not to pour too aggressively and end up with four inches of cloudy foam atop
one’s beer. Once the beverage settles the head is about a finger thick, and as
fluffy as a cirrocumulus cloud.
The olfactory glands engaged, the beer exhibits a bready
aroma, accented by a fair amount of lemon zest.
With gusto I take my first sip of the ale, and I am greeted
with the hop forward presence of citrus zest and a sticky sweet mouthfeel. Pondering
and sipping further the flavors developing on my palate remind me of iced tea,
over brewed and cut with water, lightly sweetened, and then being adulterated
further with the lemon juice that comes from the plastic lemons in super market
produce aisles.
Now, this might suggest that I think the beer bad or
undrinkable, but that’s not the case. The beer is drinkable. More than anything
though, this beer feels like it falls short of the quality that Real Ale brings
out in their regular production, much less something labeled as their “Brewers’
Cut.”
Happy drinking!
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