Short's Pandemonium Pale Ale
Behold the bitter hysteria
Pandemonium Pale Ale is a coppered-colored American Pale Ale that lends its hue to hearty two-row malts and hand selected specialty grains. Glacier hops balance the malt character, resulting in bountiful hoppy flavors and earthy aromas. Behold the bitter hysteria!
Pandemonium Pale Ale is a coppered-colored American Pale Ale that lends its hue to hearty two-row malts and hand selected specialty grains. Glacier hops balance the malt character, resulting in bountiful hoppy flavors and earthy aromas. Behold the bitter hysteria!
3.3
334 reviews
Bellaire, United States
Community reviews
From bottle. Pours an orange yellow with a small white head. Aroma is citrus with caramel. Taste is the same, only a little more intense, nicely sweet with definite hoppiness. Medium mouthfeel, medium carbonation. Quite nice.
I have to say that I’m not a huge fan of Short’s label artwork. Don’t get me wrong... it’s great artwork, but doesn’t do a good job of luring you into drinking the beer. For Pandemonium, once you pour the beer out of the bottle and see it in the glass it looks alot more tempting. Soft, golden orange in color with light carbonation and a thin, foamy white head, the beer has an almost fruity, sweet aroma. It’s very soft in the nose, and light, with some slightly soured grain and possible yeast notes present. This is a summer beer. The flavor is incredibly fruity, almost like a fermented sour apple candy It has a very soft mouthfeel, and although the flavor is sweet and fruity there’s a yeast sourness in the finish that really grabs the center and back of the tongue by its balls and bleeds it like a rag. The inside of my mouth is sweating like my cheeks do when I eat something highly sour. If you can adjust to the sourness it would be a great sessionable summer beer. There’s some bitterness in the finish, if you can get around the grainy, fermented sourness, but it doesn’t come right out and bite you.
Bitter and stale. This beer may have been old, and appears so. Very little hop presence.
Bottle. Pours hazy gold orange with big, coarse off-white head. Settles in minutes with some stringy lacing. Aroma is toffee, nutty, biscuit, sweet malt, mild hops, slight bitter. Tastes mildly hoppy bitter, slight resinous, with a nutty, toffee malt finish. Mildly bitter aftertaste. Decent balance of hop and malt, fairly mild overall. Soft carbonation, medium-light body, and smooth texture.
Bottle. Pours a clear amber color with a small foamy head that quickly fades. Aroma is sugary sweet with pine, flowers, and light caramel. Taste is a little more sweet than bitter. Pine, flowers, and a slightly odd fruitiness. An ok pale ale.
Got this bottle in a trade, Thanks Devin. Poured from a 12 bottle. Aroma is slight pine and sweet caramel malt. Flavors are strong malt and slight bitter pine. Nice easy light drinking pale. Not normally my style, it’s a more malt forward pale. All in all a nice drinkable pale.
Nice clean taste. Got a lot of caramel which in this case takes away from the drinkability I think. Overall pretty good though.
Pours amber with thin white head. Aroma is malty, caramel, a bit fruity, passionfruit, kiwi. Flavor is light bitter, caramel, and orange peel. Very well balanced, and a great beer!
Copper colored. Not much of an aroma. Bitter beer with a hint of caramel. Overall pretty solid.
Free beer from Blowofftube, aroma is light malt and a pine and floral aroma. taste is pretty bitter, but needs more of something
Bottle, pours a cloudy amber. Scent of grass and herb. Taste is similar, good amount of bitterness.
Its good, but not the best for what it is. Pours a copper color with a foamy off white head. Taste is sweet maltiness with hint of soap? And some bitterness but was hoping for more.
Bottle - Pours amber with a thin white head. Grainy nose with spicy rye and 7-grain bread. Light herbal hopping. Taste is much the same, with a grainy, soapy malt base, some rye spice, and an herbal hop finish. Pretty spicy and bitter on the finish, with a weird soapy off note. Medium bodied and well carbonated.
12oz bottle courtesy of Madbeerbaron. Thanks, Ben. Orange-tan body with a frothy off-white head. Kind of buttery, this is not what I expected. Has deep butterscotch tones, maybe just pronounced ringwood, but this tastes borderline infected, off too. I still drank it, but I would have been upset if I had scooped up a sixpack of it.
A decent beer, great color. More of a malty, whiskey hint, rather than a citrus override. Not as bitter as promised.
bottle. pours light orange with decent white head. has a very sweet grass aroma. taste is soapy bitter with crayola hop.
This ale is all malt & subdued hops. A juicy & plump brew. The more you squeeze from the bottle, the better it gets.
tap. Deep golden with small head. Big fruity hops with considerable flavor. Very nice pale ale. Smooth and refreshing.
Bottle at home. Pours a slightly hazy amber with one finger of persistent white head. Aroma is slight citrus but more malt. Clean finish. Good beer.
Bottle consumed at Merriman Street Grill. Pours amber with a modest off-white head and a floral aroma. There is a carbonated pale malt flavor that is slightly fruity with a dry finish.
Really liked this pale ale, one of the better Shorts beers, bottle from MI bar, nice light hops
Bottle somewhere near Boyne Falls, MI.
Caramel color, modest head. Abundantly flavorful, good hop-malt balance, Tasty!
Nice sharp opening, followed by a bitter kick, and a pleasant finish that continues to satisfy in the continuum.
12 oz. bottle poured into a tulip glass. Appearance is a rich golden-orange color with a moderate off-white head which dissipates quickly. Aroma is intense bitter citrus and floral scents. Taste is a semi-sweet malty flavor mixed with the bitter hops one would expect from a pale ale. It has a very smooth feel without much carbonation, leaving a dry feeling at the back of the throat. Not bad.
Lots of orange citrus and citrus peel in the aroma and flavor. Smooth caramel and hints of molasses balance the citrus flavors. Medium hops.
Bottle shared from Deanso. Pours hazy amber with an off white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, orange. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
33cl bottle from the molen.
Thin creamy white head. Hazy amber pour. Subtle bitterness.
Appearance- amber, golden brown
Smell- hoppy with a hint of floral notes
Taste- wheat, bitter, medium bodied
Overall slightly bitter but very enjoyable
This is a very hearty pale ale. It is quite hoppy which I am not a fan of because it comes across as bitter to me. It really has that earthy factor and even a bit nutty.
Bottle. Fruity caramel malt aroma. Clear copper with a small white head. Biscuity malt, spicy herbal hops flavor. Medium body, soft carbonation.