Real Ale Rio Blanco Pale Ale:
Greetings fellow beer drinkers and travelers and welcome back to another day, another beer.  Today we stay here in the Lone Star state and once again look at Real Ale out of Blanco, TX and their Rio Blanco Pale Ale (or white river pale ale for those of you who have an undying sense of curiosity).  This beer, a 2010 GABF gold medal winner, is one of the more inviting pale ales on the market.  The beer pours a  nice hazy golden color that has a nice thin head of white foam and nose of mild citrus and some bready malts.  The beer’s initial taste is a combo of tart orange and some roasted malts that work surprisingly well together as they bring out good herbal notes in the mid tongue and settle to a nice sour back-end and a mellow but still skunky aftertaste.  So as we slog our way through the world of beer and the pale ales that dot it’s landscape, we need to recognize this is as one beer that not only is good but different enough to set itself apart from the others.  Not as good as Real Ale’s Full Moon Pale Rye Ale, this beer is definitely worth checking out.