Lord Chesterfield Ale - Yuengling Brewery

blakesell

Ohio

3.53/5  rDev +19.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Poured from the twist off 12oz bottle into a standard pint glass.

Appearance- Beer pours clear and yellow golden with a fairly large two finger head that lingers for about a minute before dying down to a murk across the top with substantial lacing around the sides of the glass. Looks good for a pale so far.

Smell- Hmm, smells pretty nice as well, light base malts with a fairly fruity hop character, not IPA style citrus, but still a bit of citrus and pear another thing I can't quite pick up. Sweet, maybe a variety of honey? It does have a bit of a honey sweetness in there.

Taste- Oh, now here we fall a little short, there's a bit of drying hop bitterness, and those good pale malts come through, but the sharpness of being in green bottles also comes through. It isn't skunked, it's been kept in the most perfect of conditions, but that flavor just isn't quite up to snuff overall. It seems lacking in both malt and hop flavor.

Mouthfeel- A bit bitter, smooth, light bodied, highly carbonated, spritzy.

Drinkability- This is a smooth drinker, a lawnmower beer for sure, and this is something I would prefer to find in the can. This is something I'll seek out again when I go to Pennsylvania, but I will be looking for the porter first and foremost.

Serving type: bottle

06-02-2009 00:29:38 | More by blakesell

vonnegut21

New York

3/5  rDev +1.7%

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ValpoExpo

Ohio

3.25/5  rDev +10.2%

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DeutschesBier

Maryland

2.5/5  rDev -15.3%

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dsnyder61

Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev +27.1%

06-04-2013 22:43:28 | More by dsnyder61

Johnnyv310

New York

2.25/5  rDev -23.7%

05-30-2013 05:45:46 | More by Johnnyv310

InspectorBob

New Jersey

3/5  rDev +1.7%

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drinking12many

West Virginia

3/5  rDev +1.7%

05-27-2013 14:48:32 | More by drinking12many

Slatetank

Pennsylvania

3/5  rDev +1.7%

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MadWolf

Ohio

3/5  rDev +1.7%

05-24-2013 20:15:51 | More by MadWolf

mikehillman

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev +10.2%

05-19-2013 18:13:10 | More by mikehillman

pcsnyder

Pennsylvania

3/5  rDev +1.7%

05-19-2013 13:25:55 | More by pcsnyder

Greggggggg

New Jersey

3.25/5  rDev +10.2%

05-13-2013 16:17:17 | More by Greggggggg

greggy1972

Ohio

2.75/5  rDev -6.8%

05-12-2013 15:23:07 | More by greggy1972

tommyguz

Pennsylvania

2/5  rDev -32.2%

05-11-2013 01:43:47 | More by tommyguz

twenty5

Pennsylvania

2.25/5  rDev -23.7%

05-10-2013 17:07:11 | More by twenty5

Kelp

New Hampshire

3/5  rDev +1.7%

05-09-2013 11:30:22 | More by Kelp

HippieHops

Ohio

3/5  rDev +1.7%

05-01-2013 21:57:06 | More by HippieHops

Chinaskifan1

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev +10.2%

05-01-2013 01:58:07 | More by Chinaskifan1

HeadFishDog3030

Pennsylvania

3.5/5  rDev +18.6%

04-30-2013 23:11:35 | More by HeadFishDog3030

tbeer40

New Jersey

2.75/5  rDev -6.8%

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tdm168

North Carolina

2.79/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75

A - see through, pale, gold with a thin, fizzy, white head that fades in an instant

S - musty, faint grass, faint citrus

T - almost no flavor on the front end, but then there is a very bitter finish; there are some hints of citrus throughout if you look hard enough

M - medium bodied, very crisp, over carbonated

Well, this certainly isn't the best pale ale out there. It could definitely use a boost of flavor. It's also over carbonated which make it lighter than it should be. Overall, I'm not disappointed that I tried this, but I won't be buying it again.

Serving type: bottle

04-06-2013 00:28:26 | More by tdm168

EFR94

Pennsylvania

3/5  rDev +1.7%

03-30-2013 00:47:45 | More by EFR94

jp312

Pennsylvania

2/5  rDev -32.2%

03-30-2013 00:34:50 | More by jp312

reebrevlup

Arizona

3/5  rDev +1.7%

03-30-2013 00:22:41 | More by reebrevlup