Ska Euphoria Pale Ale

The Ska Brewing Company is from Durango, Colorado. This is their 6.2% ABV pale ale.

The beer pours an orange tinted amber and copper. There is over an inch of off-white head. The aroma is mango, a bit of passion fruit skin and guava, with a light touch of earthy muskiness, over caramel malt. The taste is a battle between the malt and hop notes of the aroma, adding in a grapefruit and tangerine citrus, bitter, tang. The finish is moderately bitter, a touch astringent. The beer drinks easy, smooth, with a subtle, tingling carbonation. This is very good.  

Back circa 2011:  This beer pours a very dark copper and amber to medium brown.  There is a small off-white head.  The aroma is grassy, fresh herb, citrus, on a caramel malty base.  The taste is malty, tea with lemon, plums, biscuit, with a quite bitter and dry finish. This was more an English pale ale then, it seems they have hopped it up.