Starr Hill Pale Ale
Beer pours out a lovely orange with coppery highlights and a nice white head that slowly diminishes and leaves a nice cap of bubbles atop the liquid. Decent lacing is left, but doesn't spiderweb the interior of the glass. Aroma is nicely malty and hoppy, with a warm breadiness to it as well as a lemony/citrus quality. Beer is nicely balanced. Gentle and warm up front with a biscuity quality that gives way slowly and mildly to the hops bite. Very nice. Citrus qualities pop out of the hops. Slightly dry finish with a good aftertaste that recalls both hops and malts. Body is good and solid, sticky, and flavors are clingy. Excellent. A little over carbonated, but otherwise an excellent example of an American Pale. One I wish I could find with regularity down in North Carolina.