This is not how this beer looks after a night of drinking. Obviously poor lighting or an unsteady hand of the photographer. 
Because this beer was clearly superior.
This was an offering from the final (unfortunately) shipment from the Beer of the Month club I had received as a Father's Day gift. The gift subscription was for three months and October was the final one. 
This brew is a Pale Ale from the Tuckerman Brewing Company of New Hampshire. Tuckerman is in Conway, NH and has been in operation since 1998. They only produce about 8,000 barrels a year and their products currently are only available in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachussetts. Except of course through such venuse as the Beer of the Month club.
As you may recall I am a big fan of IPA's. As such I tend to be disappointed in Pale Ales which are less hoppy, and for my tastes less complex, less interesting and less tasty than IPA's. 
Well this is  a beer that could change my thinking. It is a nice golden color and really delicious. It has a tingle to it from the carbonation which apparently stems from the beer being conditioned in bottle with a little extra unfermented beer thrown in the mix right before bottling.
Whatever it is they do, it works. There is an impression of fruitiness, citrus notes I'd say, but it is not sweet or cloying. The beer is tasty and balanced. It goes down smooth. It is on the lighter side but not to the point of being uninteresting. 
I would certainly drink this beer again. And when I'm in the tri-state area of Massachussetts and southeastern New Hampshire and Maine I'll keep an eye out for this brew or any other offering from Tuckerman. 
I really enjoyed. 8 mugs out of 10 even for a Pale Ale!

You can check out Tuckerman Brewing at the embedded link. Their other offerings are two varieties of altbiers and a stout. If the Pale Ale is any indication it would be worth finding them. Maybe even worth a drive to Conway, New Hampshire.

I pledged to keep the politics side of this site, the Views half of Brewsonviews, out of the Brews half. And I won't get partisan here. 
Just wanted to point out one fallout from the government shutdown that hits close to home to brew lovers.
When a brewer wants to bring a new offering to market there is a process he/she must go through. The product/label must be approved. It is a federal department naturally that does this. 
Typically it took them about 75 days to go through this approval process.
The federal agency in charge of this is running at bare bones capacity due to the shutdown. They are handling any requests that were already in house and going thru the process. But any new requests from brewers will sit and wait until the shutdown is over. And as you can imagine there will at that point be quite a backlog and that 75 day wait will be seen as the good old days.
As you can imagine this impacts your small craft breweries more than the big boys. There are small brewers who could be waiting months now for approval of products they were planning to offer for the holidays or the spring. Brewery launches are on hold costing the breweries thousands of dollars a month in some cases. And again for the small craft brewers that is real money.
Okay, I think I kept this rant non-partisan. But for those who love craft beers and the adventurous brewers who bring them to us this is especially galling. 
Contact your representatives, time to get the government back up and running.