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Written by Janice Biancavilla and Kellie Mejdrich   
Monday, 21 November 2011 17:05

The Epitaph staff and others rate the beer out of five stars

Janice Biancavilla: 3/5 Stars

This medium bodied pale ale, much like it’s flavor, begins sweet but doesn’t hold attention.

Upon first sip, OK Ale has a surprising sweet fruity flavor and a smooth body that would suggest drinkability. However, the back-end of the brew doesn’t follow through. The mild hoppy finish is very one dimensional and after a few sips the brew begins to blend together as a confusingly sweet-hopped beer that can’t decide if it wants to be a pale ale or a hoppy amber.

The beer redeems itself when it warms slightly and the full flavors become more apparent but still does not hold the complexity that is expected with pale ales and leaves a resonating too-dull aftertaste of hops.

 

Kellie Mejdrich: 2.5/5 stars

The malt/hop balance is not enough to make it an IPA, but too much to make it traditional ale. It's got this really mineral, bitter finish that's pretty metallic. It's not a very good beer—it barely establishes itself flavor-wise beyond common shelf beer in Tombstone. -Kellie Mejdrich

 

Logan McNutt: 24, Supervisor at Oro Valley Municipal Pool: 3/5 Stars

“It’s hoppy but not overbearing”

“A very simple beer”

 

Emily Hardy: 2/5 stars:

"It's really hoppy, like iron-y," said Emily Hardy, 24, a librarian in Tucson. "It hurts my feelings."

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