BEER: PALE ALES
ale ales are kind of in the midst of an indentity crisis. To be fair, it’s an easy style to misunderstand. To start, the style’s name doesn’t exactly speak volumes as to what the beer’s about. Typically, if you hear the word “pale,” one immediately thinks of something lacking in color, dull, faded or washed out. So then, why wouldn’t people immediately assume that a pale ale is a light, soft and easy-drinking selection, with little intensity, complexity or character? But actually, the truth is fairly far from that.
