Dundee Pale Ale

A wonderfully balanced true pale ale. Cascade, Tomahawk, and Amarillo hops create a citrusy aroma with a smooth, crisp finish. A subdued malt character nicely complements the hop complexity and produces an orangey amber hue.
Formerly JW Dundee’s American Pale Ale and Dundee American Pale Ale
35 IBU
14°

2.8

505 reviews

Rochester, United States

Community reviews

2.2 12oz bottle. Poured a crystal clear amber color with a small off-white head. Smell and taste is of light hops and mild caramel malt. Has more hop flavor than you can detect by the nose.

4.0 This is a great pale ale for the money. Starts out subtle to the nose, and finishes without a grabby bitterness that some overly flavored beers boast. Enjoyably Hoppy indeed!!!

3.3 Smell of malt, yeast, skunk. Taste is mildly bitter and hoppy, also malty. Would work best with spicy food.

3.6 This beer is a slightly orangeish golden with a prominent white head that dissipates quickly, and the aroma is hoppy but not terribly so. This beer is mildly bitter and lightly sweet, but the palate is a medium-thick body, soft carbonation, abrupt finish, and slick texture.

2.5 Pours a clear golden orange from the bottle with thin white head and moderate lacing, lots of carbonation. Aroma is of pale and bready malts, with a hint of hops underneath. Flavor cuts the hops and its mostly just malty. To me this is much more of an english style pale ale than an american, but they already have an english that is even worse.

2.4 Bottled. Poured medium-golden with a short-lived off-white head. The aroma picked up pale and vegetal malts with light grassy and orangey accents.. not so enjoyable. The flavor followed the same course.. bitter orange peel around and throughout, with honey-kissed cheap malts and light vegetal character beneath.. tangy orange on the finish. Lighter-bodied with smooth carbonation on the palate.. good feel on the middle, but too sharp through the finish.

2.9 Bottle. Tan orange color. Standard pale ale taste. Nice head and lace. Decent session

2.4 Golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is of grass, light floral, moldy wet leaves. Taste is of must, grass, grain.

2.3 Bottle. The look is golden to copper in color, thinning white head, and clear. The smell is floral, grass, not great hop aroma, sorta mushy. The taste is hops, real light bitterness, grass, light malt, and blah.

2.7 Clear orangish yellow appearance. Decent head. Grapefruit in the aroma, but there isn’t much. Some bready malts but mostly just tasting stale...

2.7 Sept 2006: reviewed on BA. Part of a JW Dundee’s Craft Beers of America pack bought in the UK. Drank this first at just below room temp, it was OK. Thought you American types might drink in cooled, so put the next one in the fridge, big mistake, don’t drink it cold, there is no taste at all if you do that! It looked fine and smelt of hops and honey, I have had a lot of UK Pale Ales, this New York version is in the middle of my rankings. Would I buy another? Yes, but I would drink it uncooled, like we do in the UK.

3.0 Medium gold-light copper pour,thin head to no head with a froth ring and spotty lacing. Aroma is somewhat more malty/sweet with fruity english esters and/or very light fruit/floral hop with evergreen or spruce like notes.Pretty much no hop aroma. Taste is smooth somewhat almost slick then some carmel and mild citrus, with a moderate tart citrus type bittering.Kinda light grainyness , very light toast,some floral hop,pretty refined and subtle. Pretty crisp somewhat malty and quaffable.Pretty solid standard pale ale.Some would say boring but its a solid brew.

2.9 Originally reviewed: 1/28/10. Bottle from a mixed Dundee 12-pack. Poured into a pint glass. Pours a clear dark orange with a huge rocky off-white head on top. Great retention; left lots of sticky lace and sip rings on glass. Scents of earthy malts and bread. Pretty basic here. The mouth was thin and wet. I didn’t care for that at all. Flavors of biscuits, some mild hops, and semi-sweet malts. Finish was earthy. This was a pretty basic PA. I wouldn’t reach for this often, but it would do in a pinch.

2.9 Blonde with a red-orange tint. Small white head. First sip I got floral notes, after that it was orange/grapefruit. LIttle bit of malt sweetness (increasingly as it warms), but the bitterness and tartness stick out more than anything.

2.2 decent pour + aroma. not many hop’s jumping out of the glass, picked up on more malt. taste follows the smell. just ok

2.9 12oz bottle from Pick’s poured into a shaker. Pours a clear pale amber with about 1 finger of thick white head. Aroma of herbal and pine hops. Taste is light bitter. Taste of pine hops. Light bodied and thin texture. Lively carbonation and a bitter finish. Overall, not that bad. Probably the best Dundee I’ve had yet, but that is still not saying much.

2.7 Tasted bottle from what I consider a budget craft-beer mix-pack. Poured a clear, light amber color with weak off-white head into standard pint glass. Nice bready aroma with healthy dose of American aroma hops. Well-balanced bittersweet taste. Somewhat watery, light-body mouthfeel. Fewer fruity ale yeast esters than I’d expect. Less complex than better American Pale Ales, but nonetheless tasty and drinkable. Good for the money. If I go to a party and the fridge has a few of these mixed in with dozens of mass-market fake pilsners, you know what I’m gonna grab.

3.0 Pours clear light orange with large frothy white head. Aroma bit sweet sugared orange. Flavor bit dryer finish, sweet sugared orange body, tad light, but not too watery. Overall, not too bad.

3.1 Drinkable brew, not the greatest of APA’s, this beer doesn’t have that hoppy overtone that I like. But again, not bad.

3.0 (12oz bottle thanks to blutt59) clear orange-gold with a creamy fine off-white bubbled head. Nose of biscuit, sweet grain and light citrus. Taste of sweet malt, cracker, orange peel. Pretty drinkable. Creamy body.

2.5 Crushed with TheRon. Orange-yellow hue with barely a head that doesn’t stick at all. Sweet, grassy, biscuit nose. Flavor is a bit hoppy, pretty sweet, a bit musty. Finish lingers for a second. Easy to drink.

2.4 Bottle, amber orange color with minimal foam, aroma is malty with a thin malt flavor and some hops, watery finish

1.7 Color is a light golden amber. Head is short but foamy. Aroma is bready and sweet. The taste is balanced and clean. Not getting hops or malt either way. Fairly bland overall.

2.2 12oz bottle. Clear golden color, 1.5 finger off-white head. Overly carbonated with a very quick finish. Hop taste up front, but it subsides too quickly, and is followed by a yeasty lagery taste. I wasn’t expecting much, but was still let down.

2.2 12oz bottle, pours a clear dark golden with a thin head and some spotty lacing, aroma is of slight grain with a touch of hops, the flavor is pretty bland and boring with a small amount of hops in the finish, and I really mean small amount, hardly nothing here, just plain bad.

2.0 Thin and watery, not even close to Pales from Stoudts or Oskar Blues. Tastes cheap and corny, yet it does have a mildly bitter finish that keeps things from getting stomach-churningly bad. Still, a meager, measly Pale Ale. (7/08)

2.4 Decent hop aroma and then rather bland. Taste is a little dry and uninteresting.

0.8 Mildly hoppy corn. Scratch that, watery corn. Hops anyone? Thisis a pale ale isn’t it?

3.1 Bottle. Pleasant medium-orange appearance. A fruity aroma profile overall, with spotlights on melon and fresh cherry. Fresh berry fruit begins the flavour cycle and things fall off from there, with below-average bitterness leaving an unbalanced impression and stale malt on the finish. Good but could have been better.

2.6 11th September 2007 Warning! Early amateur rating! Crisp beer. Plenty of malty body - only very mild hop bitterness in the finish.