agrazela
Well-Known Member
Last night took the family out for wings and mashed potato and bacon pizza at a local pub. Mmmm.
Wife ordered Modern Times Rolling Boomers, waitress poured from can. I ordered Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale (never had it before) from the draft list.
I tasted my wife's beer, it was just what I expected, could smell the hops from across the table, could easily pick out the hop extract and the Citra. Just enough malt, nice dry finish, yum.
She tasted mine, said it was "bland and sweet."
Hm, OK...I check out the Dale's: very little aroma to speak of except caramel and a very slight touch of floral. Flavorwise, I get sickly sweet caramel, almost cola, with maybe a touch of honey, and a lingering aftertaste of bubblegum. No discernible hop flavor at all. Almost no head, very little lacing. Light in the place was very dim, so could not tell color / clarity so much.
It was not undrinkable, it just wasn't the super-hoppy pale ale / near-IPA I was expecting.
Maybe they brought me the wrong thing, so I asked for a taster to be sure...taster comes, and it's the same story.
Got home and looked up reviews on Dale's, and I could not match my experience to anything reviewers said. Had a pint of my own rye centennial amber, everything was fine there, my nose and tongue are working.
So, was the keg super old? Did they hook up the wrong keg? Dirty lines? Am I just hopelessly lupulin shifted?
Anyone else have an experience like this?
Wife ordered Modern Times Rolling Boomers, waitress poured from can. I ordered Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale (never had it before) from the draft list.
I tasted my wife's beer, it was just what I expected, could smell the hops from across the table, could easily pick out the hop extract and the Citra. Just enough malt, nice dry finish, yum.
She tasted mine, said it was "bland and sweet."
Hm, OK...I check out the Dale's: very little aroma to speak of except caramel and a very slight touch of floral. Flavorwise, I get sickly sweet caramel, almost cola, with maybe a touch of honey, and a lingering aftertaste of bubblegum. No discernible hop flavor at all. Almost no head, very little lacing. Light in the place was very dim, so could not tell color / clarity so much.
It was not undrinkable, it just wasn't the super-hoppy pale ale / near-IPA I was expecting.
Maybe they brought me the wrong thing, so I asked for a taster to be sure...taster comes, and it's the same story.
Got home and looked up reviews on Dale's, and I could not match my experience to anything reviewers said. Had a pint of my own rye centennial amber, everything was fine there, my nose and tongue are working.
So, was the keg super old? Did they hook up the wrong keg? Dirty lines? Am I just hopelessly lupulin shifted?
Anyone else have an experience like this?