Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Pawtucket Patriot Ale

Information available:
  • It's an ale.
  • The SRM (color) is between 7 and 9. The colors in the chart above look brighter than the beer but let's attribute it to the pub like lighting in the Drunken Clam.
  • The head is poor.

Assumptions:
  1. It's an year round beer, and not one of the seasonal kind because they drink it all the time (eliminates Pumpkin ales and such)
  2. It's a low ABV beer, because they drink it all the time (eliminates English Barleywines and such)
  3. It's a good example of the style, so if there's no head on Peter's beer, it's because the style itself has little head.
  4. It's not a Belgian/inspired beer (poor head, glassware used), or a one-off (rules out barrel aging and such), related to 1. and 2.

After this, it's just a matter of going through the BJCP style guidelines, and the beer above is an English Bitter.

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