Summer Ale
Fremont Brewing Company in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Summer|
Score
6.85
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Summer Ale is back and better than ever! Bursting with citrus and melon flavors, refreshing and imminently drinkable, it's the perfect beer for any Summer day. "Beer has food value, but food has no beer value." – VWP
Down & Dirty: 2-Row Pale malt with Amarillo® and Citra® cryo hops.
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 50
Color: Dark yellow
Aroma: Prominent orange, with cereals and fresh grassy aromas, followed by pine and florals
Flavor: Slightly sweet and moderately bitter, both linger lightly in light body with moderate carbonation, slight astringency and mouthwatering
Availability: May – August
Fresh Range: 90 days from packaged-on date
Down & Dirty: 2-Row Pale malt with Amarillo® and Citra® cryo hops.
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 50
Color: Dark yellow
Aroma: Prominent orange, with cereals and fresh grassy aromas, followed by pine and florals
Flavor: Slightly sweet and moderately bitter, both linger lightly in light body with moderate carbonation, slight astringency and mouthwatering
Availability: May – August
Fresh Range: 90 days from packaged-on date
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can. Clear golden with lasting white head. Zesty notes up fromt with geapefruit and orange, crisp malts, light grassy. Just medium sweet, a bit less bitter. Crisp medium body. This has a joce light and crisp malt base, some nice citrus hops but all in all it lacks a bit of flavour and punch. Quite drinkeable though.
Tried
on 20 Nov 2025
at 20:01
Pours a translucent copper. Little citrus, smooth, with a dash of very light hops. Nice beer to sip on after a delicious lamb burger.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Sep 2025
at 12:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
An orange beer, a head is medium and white. Aroma has fruitness, grapefruit. Taste has grapefruit, mandarin, light fructose. Medium bodied. Pretty nice.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2022
at 16:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Beerdome. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - citrus and flowers. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 161021
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2021
at 15:21
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from 473mL can (pkg 06/02/21). Hazy yellow gold with white head. Grain, mild tangerine, crisp, underlying floral notes. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2021
at 09:33
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. A- Grapefruit, citrus, pine, hoppy. A- Gold color, clear liquid, white head. T- Piney, grassy, bitter, citrus, grapefruit. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, bitter finish. O- A classic Pale Ale. Not bad not great.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Aug 2020
at 17:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
355ml can. Pours a hazy straw colour with a medium, foamy, long lasting, off-white head that laces. Sweet fruity aroma of grainy pale malt, tangerine, orange, grapefruit pith, light pine and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of pale malt, tangerine, orange, mango, grapefruit and light pine in a crisp, dry, bitter grass finish. Light to medium body with an oily texture and average carbonation. Simple, clean, refreshing and easy to drink. A good beer to beat the summer heat.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jul 2019
at 04:03
7/10
RB backlog. Clear orange, light apricot, light pine, faint diacetyl. Light sweetness, tart, dry and bitter finish. Light body, natural soft carbonation. Very quaffable.
Tried
on 07 May 2019
at 23:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650ml bottle (1 Pint 6 Fl Oz) into lager glass. Thanks to Bitterlady. Pale amber beer, slight haze. Big frothy white head. Lots of tiny bubbles. Subtle citric nose. Clean, fresh, simple. Super easy drinking with lots of grain in the taste and earthy hops at the finish. Right at the end the grainy dryness returns encouraging another drink, so I'd better have another. Nice quaffer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2018
at 08:39
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
12 oz can purchased in Golden, Colorado. Hazy yellow colored pour with a white head and excellent retention. Very good lacing. Tastes more like an IPA than an APA. Lots of bitter hops flavor and nothing else.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Sep 2018
at 13:27