Appalachian Purist Pale Ale

Our light copper pale ale has a delicate malt attribute balanced by an aggressive hop flavor and aroma. Many American micros have developed their own version of this classic English style beer. Our brewers anticipate that you will enjoy their variation.

169 reviews

Harrisburg, United States

Community reviews

2.9 Draft at gettysburg location. Pours a copper amber color, with a white head. Caramel malt, bitterness, light hops, and sweetness. Not very good, one of my less favorite of their beers I tried.

3.3 Light clear copper color. Some off-white head that disappeared rather quickly. Enjoyable aroma of hops and spices but that also came and went. Taste is the same. Thin body, medium carbonation.

2.6 Re-rate. Draft at the brewpub. Pours clear copper with a small white head. The aroma has a slight citrus and pine note. The taste has a light bitterness, a bit grainy, a bit cereal.

2.5 On tap. Clear gold pour, no head. Aroma is really faint, almost nothing going on there, maybe a hint of english hops, not sure. Taste is equally bland. Not necessarily bad, just very very boring.

3.5 Draft at the souce. Hazy golden color. Aroma of grass and light pine. Taste is fruity and smooth.

2.9 Light copper orange with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet malts, caramel, light fruity hop, light earthy spice. Medium to thin body. Flavor is lacking. A bit of earthy hop, light fruity notes, and a bit of malt. Fairly nondescript pale ale.

3.3 Draft. Copper color, mild aroma and taste. Malt is more prevalent than hops, but bitter finish.

2.4 12 oz. Pours clean amber with thin beige head, decent lacing. Aroma of a little piney hops and mostly caramel malts. Little hop bitterness, a little sweet. Mild piney hop taste.

3.6 Pours light golden yellow. Taste is balanced with a crisp hoppy finish. Nice clean dry palate. Done well. Much better than the lager.

3.2 Tap. Pours clear amber with a medium, frothy off-white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is fruity esters, floral hops and biscuit malt. Flavor is medium hops and bitterness, malt backbone, fruity esters and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth.

3.3 Bottle. Pours a nice copper color with a lasting head. Nice pine-ish aroma. Taste is smooth and caramel. Pretty balanced. Nice sipping beer. lot’s of other APAs are very aggressively hopped, but this is very sessionable.

3.3 Flat pour from a 12oz bottle into a pint. Head fizzles up to a stern showing at first, only to dissapate to light bubbles and a faint ring around the glass. Color is bright copper orange and mellow brown. Taste is a tad hoppy which puts this brew behind a solid pale ale, some pine and ceader. Quite an average beer here. Nothing super satisfying but it still is drinkable. Relaxing yes, superior no. And thats just the way it is.

3.6 A good pale ale. Nothing great; just a good solid beer that is tasty, has a great finish and easy to drink. Mine was with a pizza at the ABC Brewery in Gettysburg. Try it.

2.9 6 oz sampler on tap at their Camp Hill brew pub. Pours a medium copper amber color from a 12oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is caramel, toast and lightly hoppy. A light to medium bodied American Pale Ale. The malts are caramel, toffee and a touch bready. The hops are a little mild for an APA, a touch grapefruity and citrusy too.

3.1 Draft @ ABC, Harrisburg, PA. Pours a pale amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy flavor with hints of citrus. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus finish.

2.0 Pours a bronze color with a nice frothy head. Lots of lacing. Mild malty aroma and a malty and metallic taste. The finish has a metallic aspect but is crisp.

3.2 12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy golden amber with a thin-moderate off-white head that lasted through the first two sips and left light lace. Pleasant aroma of orange with a bit of malt present as well. The flavor is mild malt followed by some mild hops bitterness with just a bit of citrus. A slightly earthy flavor rises and quickly falls towards the finish as well.

2.6 Clear copper color with aroma of citrus, some hops and nuts. Mostly nuts and citrus flavor with just a hint of hop flavor. Okay beer.

3.0 An amber ale with a thin creamy lacing off white head. In aroma, a rather herbaceous with mineral notes. In mouth, a clean nutty malt with light British hops, veering on German, medium bodied. On tap at brewery restaurant, April 10th, 2011.

3.5 Very strong hop aroma. Some maltiness but hops are stronger on the tongue. Lots of lacing on the glass. Very nice.

2.7 Clear copper orange, off white cover. Aroma is thin, stale malt, light grassy hops, metal. Taste is toast, caramel, some other mixed herbal or grassy hops. Meh

3.2 Pours a lighter amber with eggshell head. Smells of mild grass and honey. Flavor is the same, sweet malt bordering on honey with considerable grassy hops flavor, much more flavor than bitterness with the hops. Not light bodied, but easy drinking nonetheless. Good.

3.5 On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear orange gold with a medium sized white head. Light malt, citrus, gentle and soft. Creamy and lightly earthy malt and hops. Grapefruit on the finish is faint and subtle, crisp and earthy.

2.9 Served on draft at the Gettysburg location. Pours a clear copper color with a medium head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of leafy and citrus hops. The taste is bitter, leafy hops with a bit of citrus. Medium bodied. All hops, no balance.

3.0 Orange/amber pour with watery head and lace. Sweet caramel and very light citrus hops. Light sweet caramel malt with a light medium resiny bitter. Watery and thin but drinkable. Weak to the style though.

2.5 12 oz bottle served in a tulip. Pour is cloudy amber with 2 inches of off-white head. Nose is very, very light malt and hop, and perhaps the slightest presence of summer fruit. Taste is bitter with the lightest touch of fruit. Not really much to say about this one ... its better than bud or miller products!

3.8 This was a pleasant surprise. Not a copy of a classic like Sierra Nevada pale, more like a mini-Victory hop devil. Sweet amber roast malts and citrus American hops in the nose. Beautiful clear amber body, small white head, fantastic lacing, more like cask than draft. Lower alcohol, less malt, less hops than the Hop Devil it resembles visually. Good balance. Bonus points for low alcohol.

3.1 Location: Tap at the Brewpub, Harrisburg location, 6/13/10 Aroma: It has a subtle nose of caramel, orange, floral notes Appearance: It pours a caramel color with lots of lace Flavor: The taste is well-balanced, good citrus/caramel feel Palate: It is smooth, with a softish carbonation, light body Overall Impression: This was a great looking beer, and its solid enough elsewhere. The nose is rather weak, and, in my opinion, that is the worst thing about this beer. Otherwise, the other aspects of it are decent enough, but it isn’t anything special.

3.5 12oz bottle pour. Full disclosure is I had this while cooking hot dogs for my elementary school age kids end of school party so I did not take copious notes so I will just give the wrap up. Tasty well balanced brew. Malty with a nice quick hop punch and mild finish. Not brewed to be extreme. Meant to be sessionable and exceeds in this goal.

3.5 12 oz. Clear copper with a lasting creamy disc of foam. Nose of orange, molasses and light wood. Flavor is orange toffee with a quick turn to crisp grain, bitter wood, and slight resin on the finish. Light-medium and smoothly carbonated, with a nice dry finish. Very tasty session ale.