Favorite APA??

[andrewp]

Great Lakes Burning River is
Was drinking this again tonight and its quite delicious. The style guidelines say that they moderate to high hop flaver, but 99.9% of APA's I've had have little to no hop flavor. SNPA is probably the APA I have had the most and it's pretty good.

I like hops, so I am prejudice against the lowly hopped APA's. IPA's & IIPA's are delicious, but 6-10% ABV and I can't drink as many of them. Especially in a social situation where your friends are drinking 1 miller light to your 2 IIPA's. At least they can drive you home, but I wish alcohol content wasn't so tied to hop content.

The APA I just brewed 5 weeks ago used 0.5oz at 60min, and 6oz in the last 20 minutes, and 2oz dry hop. I made it slightly higher IBU than style guidelines, but like I said I want to taste hops. No idea how it is yet, just bottled it.

Do tell more please.

 

[Brewmando]

Boulevard Pale Ale (from KC) is a good one too.

 

[bubbachunk]

+1 to Great Lakes Burning river, but I dont think it makes it much out of Ohio yet.

 

[tpeterseufl]

I'm a big fan of Summit Extra Pale Ale. If you're near the Twin Cities, give it a try.

 

[Brewin06111]

I really like Hooker's APA for local to CT

www.hookerbeer.com

 

[Casey27]

Widmer Drifter is mighty nice.

This is indeed a surprisingly good pale ale!

 

[Casey27]

Dale's Pale ale is definitely my favorite beer in a can....

This one is APA by name only, it is a great beer but definitely an American IPA at 65 IBUs and 6.5% ABV!

 

[JKoravos]

Had Mirror Pond for the first time last week, it's damn tasty. Awesome malt backbone and not too overpowering on the hops. I could drink that one all day long.

 

[ramthebuffs]

One common trend in this thread is people tend to choose local beer. It could be to regionality etc, I think its more to do with fresh beer. Fresh well conditioned beer can't be beat.

 

[fivehoursfree]

I enjoyed Kona's Pale Ale and Anchor Liberty Ale.
Locally Real Ale's pale ale is pretty good.