Headstrong Pale Ale

The other day I was in the LCBO (liquor store in Ontario) and saw this interesting beer on the shelf. Now that we have this blog, I want to sample a new type of drink every week. It is a big commitment and duty but I do feel up to the task, and decided to give it a try. Knowing that I could not give a proper evaluation with just one can, I bought two.

Originally I purchased Headstrong Pale Ale, as on the top of the can it announced that it is a "Classic British-Style Pale Ale". I was surprised then when I discovered that it is not a British beer but an American brewed by Big Hole Brewery in Montana. Surprised because when I think of American beer I always think of their big brand generic tasting beers, and forget they also have small independent breweries. Also surprised, as in my ignorance I thought that Pale Ales would obviously be brewed only in Britain or Canada.

Over the past couple of years I have come to enjoy the bitter full flavor of an India Pale Ale (IPA). This was no exception. Headstrong Pale Ale is a heavier tasting but crisp beer with a very nice bitterness to it. It comes in at 5.5% alcohol.

This is a very nice tasting beer, one which I would purchase again.

In fact, instead of rating beers by number, I am going to have three ratings. The top rating for a beer will be, that I liked it and would buy it again. The middle rating is, I am glad I tried it, enjoyed it, would not buy it again. The last will have many descriptions and you will not need a number scale to know I did not enjoy the experience.

I would have put the Breweries URL in this report, but their website is not yet built. Guess they are too busy brewing fine beer.