American Pale Ale: Septic or Antiseptic Hops?

[ROBCamra]

I have had it and thought it was the best beer they have brewed.Loads of hop flavour.I have noticed that hoppy beers can vary from batch to batch.Ihad Tiny Rebel-Billabong on Friday and was disappointed.Good but not great like I have had before.I actually demanded to see the manager of a Nicolsons pub and queried if he had put the wrong beer on a handpump as the Jaipur had little or no hops in it.A beer I have had when it was so hoppy I could hardly finish a pint. cheers john

As soon as you open a bag of hops they start to deteriorate, just like other green stuff. If the bag of hops isn't used quickly, which may well happen at smaller breweries, they lose potency.

The brewer should compensate for this by adding more hops as they get further down the bag. A lot don't as they just follow the measurements from a previous recipe recorded in the brew log.

I suspect that you got a "bottom of the bag" brew.

[Bucking Fastard]

According to the blurb on the website Burning Sky Aurora is made using American hops and described as a Pale Ale so I would suggest it for the "Drinkable "list,very drinkable but a bit too pokey to spend the whole night on,although I do know some people who may try

[Thuck Phat]

The Drinkable

Darkstar - American Pale Ale 4.7% (TP)
Butcombe - Great Grey Owl 3.6% (MD)
Portobello - APA 5% (Aqua)
Long Man - APA 4.8% (Aqua)
St Austell - Proper Job 4.5% (LC)
Sadlers - Hop Monster 5% (LC)
Magic Rock - High Wire 5.5% (LC)
Tillingbourne - Hop Troll (BF)
Church End - Fallen Angel 5% (TP)
Blue Monkey - US Ape 7.5% (TP)
Burning Sky - Aurora (BF)
Hop Fuzz - Old American Pale 4.2% (Wit)

The Less Drinkable

Big Hand Zeta 3.6% (TP)
Greene King - Yardbird 4% (BF by proxy)
Caledonian - All American 4.1% (MD)
Portobello - American Pale Ale 5% (BF, MD)

[Wittenden]

I found Hop Fuzz-Old American Pale 4.2%abv highly drinkable yesterday,could well have had another.

[Thuck Phat]

I found Hop Fuzz-Old American Pale 4.2%abv highly drinkable yesterday,could well have had another.

Updated above.

[Mobyduck]

Hackney Brewery American Pale Ale 4.5%, not the best out there but quite drinkable all the same.

[Aqualung]

I would like to add Milestone American Pale Ale to the Less Drinkable category. If this beer is an APA then I'm an Aborigine.
Having tried it soon after the excellent ELB Cowcatcher I can assure you that it is nothing more than a boring standard pale 4.8% beer. I have no faith in this brewer at all.

[Mobyduck]

I'm an Aborigine.

Can you play the didgeridoo?

[Aqualung]

Can you play the didgeridoo?

[Mobyduck]

Ha Ha Ha.