Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Shelter Pale Ale

Shelter Pale Ale

 

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating
Score
6.22
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 30 Ticks: 52
This is our original and most approachable beer. We got our start back in 1995 brewing this very beer on our teeny, tiny brewing system at Dogfish Head Brewing & Eats in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Brewed with a premium barley and northwestern Williamette and Columbus hops, Shelter Pale Ale has a fine malt backbone and a slightly nutty flavor. It's a versatile and quaffable beer.

We named this beer Shelter Pale Ale because we think of a shelter as being a place you come home to. It just made sense for this Dogfish original.

Shelter Pale Ale is available on draft only, available in Delaware. At 5% ABV, Shelter is a great anytime beer.

Admin Note: In 2023, Dogfish Head canned and packaged Shelter Pale Ale as a part of the Continuously Hopped Variety Pack.
 

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Bottled. Fondly remembered from back in the mid. 2000s when I thought 60 minute IPA was a really hoppy beer. Good times.

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2025 at 01:05


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Rated June 2006. Golden with thin white head. Aroma of crisp fresh grapefruit with a bit of malt. Nice malty flavor followed by a fresh grapefruit bitterness from the hops. Fairly high carbonation works well to bring out the flavor of this ale.

Tried on 21 Dec 2024 at 20:48


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Dose, helles klares Gold, wenig Schaum. Aroma: Zitrus, Hopfen. Geschmack: Bitter, Frucht, Malz

Tried on 21 Mar 2023 at 23:39


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Pours clear golden with a huge frothy white head. Aroma of lemon and pine, some berries. Taste has light woody notes, some wine must, vaguely resinous. Palate has more resin on the nose, viney. Eh.

Tried on 26 Feb 2023 at 00:36


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

2 month old can A: Poured clear pale gold with a short, fast falling head. S: Sweetish aroma of pine, orange, toast and caramel. T: Follows the nose with sharp pine and bitter citrus pith keeping toasty caramel malts at bay. Very dry. M: Highly carbonated and with a light airy feel and bone dry finish. Extremely refreshing. O: Flavors are a bit muted and it's maybe overcarbonated but it's right down my alley. I Like it.

Tried from Can on 12 Feb 2023 at 00:47


4.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

From Aug 2007

I got this in a trade with Wasatch. Thanks, John!

It pours from 12oz bottle a clear gold with a good head of foam that shrinks to a fine broken layer by the end of my session.

The smell is rather delicate. I get a bit of floral hops but that's about it.

The taste has some good malty graininess up front with a touch of bitterness that moves in about midway through and that's, pretty much, the highlight of this APA. I won't mention the "D" word but yeah, it gets overpowering for my taste buds and I'm having a rather tough time drinking this brew. In fact, I can't finish my glass.
Dogfish Head makes some great brews so my not liking this one is neither here or there, if you catch my drift. ;^)

Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2017 at 11:15


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Old Town. Pours a hazy gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Grassy hops with some faint citrus and light grain notes. Clean and crisp on the palate with a balanced, albeit slightly dry finish.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2017 at 20:47


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tap at Dogfish Head, Milton. Colour is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fruits, some spices, hops and malts. Spicy apa.

Tried from Draft on 15 Feb 2017 at 12:37


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

DFH really bringing the heat to OBF. No insult intended but come on man! Pours a clear golden color with a medium white head. A nice toast, caramel and citrus nose. The flavor is more of the same, lemons, oranges, some toast earthy malt. Solid pale.

Tried on 05 Aug 2016 at 01:37


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at OBF
Clear golden with a medium sized off-white head. Aroma and flavor is floral and grassy
Ok

Tried from Draft on 02 Aug 2016 at 13:51