When I travel I like to check out the local beers. I have been in Colorado, Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, etc. and found a local beer that would all seem to fit into this category: An ale. A decent amount of color... maybe 8 to 12 SRM. Moderate hops, maybe 20-30 IBUs and that came from hops that I would call "clean", not citrusy like Citra, Galaxy, Amarillo, etc. More like Willamette, Liberty, Northern Brewer, First Gold, Crystal, Mt. Hood, Sterling, Vanguard... something like that. In almost every case the beer had a non-descript name like Sixth Avenue Ale or Park Street Ale or Foaming Squirrel Ale or Snakebite Amber or whatever. I brought this up to some of my brewing buds and we called these "American Ales" or "American Pub Ales". I remember being at the Cubs spring training park with my daughter and I was at the beer tent with all the name-brand fizzy gold beers but there was a 16oz can of some local beer. I bought one and it fell into this category. Back at the hotel there was another one of these on tap in the bar and I stopped at a quickie-mart on that trip and bought a sixer of some local beer that looked good... same thing. I like it.
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