I picked up a bottle of this so called APA, or american pale ale, at my usual beer pit-stop, Appelation Wine, in Edinburgh. It’s from the Left Hand brewing company, a brewer I’d never sampled before, so that and the pretty
cool comic-book style label prompted this beer purchase.
The ale pours surprisingly dark – certainly not living up to the pale of the pale ale name, and actually looks slightly cloudy. It takes a bit of a head at the start too, fizzing away pretty quickly.
The smell is really fresh, a bit on the grassy/straw side, and damn appetising, and thankfully the taste lives up to it.
The hops are there in droves if you look for them, but there’s a surprising bit of sweetness to balance it. My taste buds could be lying but, whether they were or now, I was loving what I thought was a wee touch of caramel. Definitely not your bog standard pale ale anyway, but one I’ll be picking up again. Jackman, whoever you are, keeping up your beer making, and send me a few of the next batch, especially of it’s another one named after a classic wrestling tag team!