Dale's Pale Ale (http://www.ratebeer.com/ rating 98) is brewed by the Oskar Blues grill and brew company. It's from Lyons in Colorado. It's in a 330ml can and is 6.5% abv. They say that it's canned, so that it is protected from the sunlight (sunlight quickly kills all the hop aromas giving them a "skunky" flavour and smell. It's the reason why lots of beers are in brown or green bottles)
It's got a nice fresh hoppy smell - once again typical of an American IPA; grapefruit, pine, lemon, coriander. Really big body as you can see from the picture - huge foamy head packing in all those aromas.
Nice dry flavour with quite a bit of roasted malts. Not as quenching as the Ska Brewing beer, but still pretty good. The dryness in my opinion is just a little bit too harsh - because the malt flavours are roasted and not caramel, you don't get that hit of sweetness which balances out the hops. The finish is of orange and citrus - again, maybe a little bit too bitter.
It's still a decent pale ale though - and once again proving that canned beer can stand up to bottles in quality and taste.
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