Cranky Reviews

A Rad Hog

Pale Ales

Pale Ales

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20
Super Suds

Rating

A Rad Hog

Rad Pale Ale

Thornbury Craft Co.

5% Alcohol

Rad* used to be what we hung our wet winter clothes over to get them dry. Now I guess rad means cool or super.  Pig also has taken on a few slang meanings which I won’t go into here, but in this case it refers to Clark the Pig, the mascot of Thornbury Crafts and local legend. Hog can refer to a pig, or a motorcycle, so a rad hog could be Clark the Pig or my ‘98 V-twin.

A dark orange-tinged pour with a nice white head, a rad pour dude. A snout full of Clark the Pig renders an aroma of a fruit IPA, but not hoppy or piney.  Time to take a swig of the pig. A mild fruit body with a flat slightly hoppy finish, all as subdued as an Amsterdam “coffee” house. A bit of a fizz comes into play, which matches the mild hop finish, maybe there are some bitters in there if you look hard for them.

It all adds up to a good mild and enjoyable pale ale.

*Editor’s Comments: The superlative “Rad” in this context means awesome, cool, exceptional exciting or very good and is a short form for “radical” (not radiator). Radical, among other definitions means very different or extreme. It’s slang form stems from the 70’s surfer and skateboard culture, although uses of it go as far back as the 1820’s in reference to political leanings. A rad is also a unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation equal to an energy of 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material. Radical can also mean relating to the roots of a word, the root of a chord in music, the root of a number or quantity in mathematics, or springing from the root of a plant in botany. It comes from the Latin “radix” meaning “root”.

Final Rating: Rad but not Radical at 15 out of 20

Pale Ales

Pale Ales

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15 to 20

15 to 20
Super Suds

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