Dale’s Pale Ale
I’ve seen ads for this stuff in Beer Advocate. It’s from Oskar Blues brewery out of Colorado and only comes in cans. Perfect for camping, the beach, picnics, and pretty much anything outdoors. Because while you can bring bottles for that stuff, cans are way easier and way more idiot proof. If all beer came in cans, we wouldn’t have to worry about idiots breaking or throwing bottles, either. But I digress.
Anyway, a canned beer isn’t of much use for the aforementioned activities if it isn’t good. Fortunately, Dale’s is awesome. Highlight of my trip to the Northwest, so far. Even though it’s not a beer from the Northwest.
It’s described as “voluminously hopped,” and while hoppy, is not overwhelmingly hopped nor the hoppiest beer I’ve tried by any means. The hops are more notable than the malt to be certain, but it works well for this beer. It goes great with food, but is also a good thirst quencher. And it’s strong. At 6.8% abv, it doesn’t take much.
If you can find it, buy some.
Brewed by an Alabama native who wants to distribute here-but can’t becuase of the screwy laws.
Well we can’t get it here either, FWIW. Even though it’s brewed in a neighboring state. We can’t get New Belgium beer. Or at least they won’t sell to the state store because it won’t refigerate. Can’t imagine state store would keep it fresh. I won’t complain about the selection, though, because we can get a lot of good stuff.
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