Florida Beer Company's Hurricane Reef Pale Ale

We'll see if this one is better than their Golden, which I drank all of but was non-plussed by.

Pours nicely. Good yellowish amber in color with a nice small-celled light tan head that stays nicely enough with fairly strong carbonation.

Good sweet bready malt smell with a slight hint of raw grain. No real hops to speak of.

Like the golden, it's too zippy in the body because it's too carbonated. Decent hops grassiness that's appropriate for a pale. It would have more body if it didn't feel so much like a soft drink. And that's my only complaint. It's appropriately hoppy, but lacks and real substance because it feels like a bitter ginger ale going down.

Too bad. The taste is right on, but rarely is a beer dragged down so clearly by the carbonation.