Highland St. Tereses Pale Ale
A golden pale having a slightly malty body balanced by an assertive American hop flavor. This pale ale displays a delicate hop nose due to the process of dry hopping with whole leaf Cascade. A crisp and refreshing beer perfect for any occasion.
3.2
400 reviews
Asheville, United States
Community reviews
Drank from a pint glass poured from a twelve ounce bottle, thank you Bjorn. Smells hoppy like a normal pale ale. Looks a bit orangey, with little head. Has avery smooth flavor for a pale ale, not a bad brew.
Location: Draft at VBGB, 2/24/15
Gold colored beer with a small head. Average hop flavor. Decent overall, but definitely not something super memorable.
Bottle: Golden orange with a small quickly dissipating head. The aroma is lightly citrus, The taste is lightly bitter with a little sweetness mixed in. The carbonation is average.
Draft at kill devil grille. Pours clear golden with a medium sized white head. The aroma has a lot of grassy hops, lemon, floral notes. The taste is light grain, a bit bitter, a bit bready, almost like a multi grain bagel.
Dank weird fruity aroma. Bottle pour with a ton of foamy head. Ripe peach and pear taste. Very drinkable beer
A solid pale. Nothing particularly jumps out. It's the first of the night... a pleasant enough way to ease into bigger and better.
Bottle. Pours a copper color with white head. Grassy, herbal aromas with slight sweet malt notes. Earthy, grassy, slight bitter flavors with a balanced malt backbone. Not a ton going on with this beer, but decent and unobtrusive.
Pours a honey copper with very little head and not much lacing. Some citrus and lemon on the nose. Hoppy notes at the back of the tongue, straw, honey. Not bad.
Reviewed from notes. Rcvd in trade.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance had a nice hazy golden orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute leaving some light slightly foamy lacing trying to cling to the sides of the glass but sliding for the most part.
The smell had a nice light blend of sweet malts to slightly aggressive citrus hops.
The taste was bittersweet all the way through with a fairly dry bitter citrus aftertaste and just a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but not limited to letting some light smooth crispness to roll around the tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good APA worthy of having again.
Highland St. Terese’s Pale Ale has a thick, spongy, off-white head, a clear, burnished-gold appearance, with some bubble streams, noticeable sediment suspended throughout, and some lacing clumps left behind. The aroma is of sourdough bread, some lemon, and hop resin. Taste is of those elements, with an unfortunate underlying tap water note. Mouthfeel is watery, and Highland St. Terese’s Pale Ale finishes dry and easy drinking. RJT
Sampler at the brewery. It poured a light amber color with a white head. The aroma was of citrus, floral and mild caramel. The taste was of light fruit, floral and very light malt.
I poured a 12oz bottle into a goblet. It was bottled on 3/4/14. A friend in North Carolina sent me this bottle (thanks, Dan!).
Appearance: Dark amber/light orange, glowing hue. Clear with plenty of visible carbonation. Pours to a small, white, foamy head which laces and retains fairly well.
Smell: Surprisingly muted. Almost odorless, though there’s trace elements of piney hops. Nothing off-putting, though.
Taste: One of the downsides of being a semi-professional beer reviewer is you sometimes have to review stuff friends give you that think is good, but you don’t. Case in point: Highland St. Terese’s Pale Ale. Even though this bottle is only two months old, it tastes much older than that. The hops are nowhere to be found, the base malt tastes very lager-like and there’s just not much body here. Though I will say it’s perhaps more bland than bad-tasting.
It’s difficult to describe the palette here since there’s little my tastebuds pick up on. A general, but mild taste of pale malt with just the faintest trace of bitterness. This is probably better categorized as a golden/blonde ale than a pale ale since the hops are missing. I get a slightly metallic or minerally taste on the finish with a bit of starch on the aftertaste. Overall, it’s not horrible, just boring and insipid.
Drinkability: With a thin mouthfeel and watery body, Highland St. Terese’s Pale Ale is actually highly drinkable. However, it isn’t particularly refreshing. It does leave a slightly dry aftertaste and there’s a flavor akin to lager just as it goes down. Though light at only 5.1% ABV, this beer has the body and palette of something <4%. If there were plenty of flavor, that’d be a good thing.
Draft. Light copper with medium white head and nice lacing. Light aroma of resinous and citrus hops with some caramel. Very light body, hop bitterness upfront, and light bread and caramel notes with a dry finish. Overall a little disappointing especially with the very light body.
Bottle. This is a very good pale ale. Gold, color with a medium head. Aroma is a very, very slight spruce and citrus with a floral note to it. Nice taste with the same floral note to it. Pretty good.
Bottle pours golden with slightly off white head. Crisp hoppy scent quickly mellowed by the malt. Well balanced taste. Bright, spicy hop flavor smoothed over with light malty sweetness. Very different than your traditional IPA.. If you don’t like most others you may like this one.
It’s a good pale ale. Don’t expect too much just a good beer that goes down easy. Would definitely buy again but nothing great
This beer caught me by surprise ! Great range of flavors, florals, fruits and hops!! Very easy to drink while still being complex enough, this is a good APA
Bottle into snifter. Honey amber, very lightly cloudy, no head to speak of. Aroma is one of the best with heavy floral notes, caramel malt, mozzarella cheese, maybe light licorice. The taste is nothing like the aroma. Sweet upfront, light salty finish. Palate is fizzy, light body, thin. Overall this beer disappoints me. The appearance and aroma are great but the taste is almost hefeweisen. This would be better in summer.
Hop, plum, bananas, brash tree bark. Taste is fruity, very smooth, very hoppy but not bitter. VERY unique APA
Super hoppy pale ale that is just about an ipa. Taste fruity with a nice bitter finish. Pours a golden yellow in color.
12oz bottle from ABC on Apalachee. Gold pour with a small white head. Aroma is earthy, tea, floral, caramel. Tastes are grapefruit, pine, caramel, orange peel. Pretty crisp all around.
Aroma of is slight but there is a hop presence. An amber pour with a rapidly dissipating white head. The taste is mildly bitter. Malts and spicy hops. Medium body and medium carbonation. Crisp mouthfeel. Overall, a nice hoppy pale ale.
Pours a clear pale amber color with a nice white head. Head died quickly. Initial taste is bready, light caramel with a finish of very light hop spiciness, resin taste. Dry finish. Light to medium mouth feel. Very drinkable.
From a bottle.The pour is a gold in color with a frothy white head slight hop note sticky texture .
Bottle, thanks sevenhokie! Aroma is hops with citrus notes and some pine. Pours light golden colored tinged in amber with a thin, white head. Start out smooth with pine resiny notes and some citrus. Finishes dry with a touch of hops at the end. Refreshing pale ale.
A very pale ale. Refreshing & u could drink quite a few. Some light honey in the malt. Lemony hopping. Not complex.
Bottle from Lowes Grocery Store. Malty aroma. Distinctive taste of hops. Crisp and refreshing. Would drink again
Aromas of floral and sharp grassy hops. Clear orange-amber with a somewhat lasting small white head. Dry with a clean, well balanced flavor including nutty malts, golden ale yeastiness, and American hops with crispy acidity. Light bodied with great carbonation, and a very clean finish.
Appearance: seems a medium brownish amber at first, but proper backlight reveals a deep golden-orange beer, perfectly clear, with a dense, creamy near white head of two fingers slowly shrinking to a fat cap and leaving rich swathes of lace. Aroma: hops and malt are evenly mixed in the nose: grapefruit, blood orange, hint of lime for the hops; graham cracker, honey smacks, light molasses on the malt. Taste: flavors are not as rich as the aroma: there is some bitter citrus at the fore, with a well-balanced malt undertone that has some good sweetness to it. Finish: slick and smooth, with a creamy, very light palate that borders a couple notches better than watery; the last flavors I get, lasting just a few seconds after each sip, is a candied fruit and sweet bread flavor reminiscent of Italian holiday fruitcake. Notes: If this beer had the palate and flavor to match the appearance and, to a lesser extent, the aroma, it would be a nearly perfect pale ale. Even so, malt and hops are in perfect balance. I just wish the flavors and palate were a tad more bold.
Pours clear golden with carbonation bubbles and a small white head. Aroma is mild pine and citrus. Tastes crisp with some malt and a mild hoppy finish balanced with a touch of citrus (resolves to grapefruit). Not a lot of depth but easy to drink.