Day 259: Little Hump Spring Ale

Name: Little Hump Spring Ale

Brewer: Highland Brewing Company (Asheville, NC)

Classification: American Pale Ale

Alcohol: 4.5%

Thoughts: It's Spring time which marks the coming of flowers and rainbows and butterflies! Oh, and Spring Seasonal Beers!!! I love this time of year because of all the crisp, refreshing beers that come out solely to celebrate Spring. The first one of the season is going to be Highland Brewing's Little Hump Spring Ale. It pours translucent yellowish-gold with a floating, bubbly head. The smell had a little bit of bitterness to start with but was quickly topped by pale malts and a decent helping of grapefruit aroma. It was slightly perfumey as well. The taste is a rather outdoors-like taste. There is more fruit like grapefruit and apricot, there is a floral hop contingent and what seemed like evergreen or spruce. Of course this is a crisp clean beer, you can look at it and tell that. But it is much more than that. This is a really good beer. It is much more exciting than I expected it to be.

Rating: 86/100