Shelter Pale Ale
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Rotating|
Score
6.20
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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.
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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4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours is a nice amber with a big white head. Aroma is fresh and earthy. Flavor is weak hops with some malts. Nothing like a SNPA. If your looking for a hoppy brew from this brewer try the 60,90 or 120 minute versions. This one falls falt.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2004
at 19:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours clear golden-amber, with a medium-thin off-white head. Spicy, grassy hops nose with biscuity malt. Flavor is nice and biscuity with spicy, musty, grassy hops. Not sugary sweet like many DFH beers. I really like this one.
Tried
on 12 Apr 2004
at 21:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
2004 bottle. Good orange-yellow color, somewhat light however and not exceptionally hazy. Small white foamy head. Smells sharp and bitter, lots of dry hops aroma, light grassy herb notes. Flavor is very dry, lightly bitter, but not in a citric way, just more of a dry grassy, leafy way. Malt comes on at the very finish, adding some sweetness, somewhat earthy, fresh and crisp, but a bit too light bodied for me and nothing really blew me away as far as complexity. Granted this is their session beer, and it does its job well. I can’t think why I’d ever have this over a 60 minute.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2004
at 09:22
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
I disagree with most of the recent ratings. Hazy amber, beige head. Slightly beery light malt nose.Watery, thin malt flavor with a few finishing hops at hte end. Underflavored. If this was the first brew I tried from this company, it would be the last.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2004
at 22:41
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Shelter Pale is a slightly hazy light golden yellow color with an average head that diminished quickly. Well balanced and light on the tongue, with a short dry finish. A little tame, but very smooth and drinkable.
Tried
on 08 Jan 2004
at 06:45
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Light body. Hazy straw color, low white head. Grainy notes with retronasal hops.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2003
at 11:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. There is a decent flavor, but not too bitter - maybe a lingering bitterness on the palate that combies with the nuttiness of the malt. Drinkable, but would suggest other beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2003
at 13:37
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled at From The Vine monthly beer tasting Aug 4th, 2003: It seems that a lot of brewers' "flagship" beer is usually the most tame in their line. I guess you have to cater to the masses with your flagship beer. Dark golden amber color with a medium off-white head. The aroma is ashy with some floral hops. Smooth character and not really all that hoppy. Decent malt balance. The finish is long and smooth. This beer is not bad but why go back to it when they have so many better beers to offer.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2003
at 06:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Medium gold color. The head is small but thick and laced the glass. First aroma is sweet with apple. Flavor starts with hops and an herbal taste. Aftertaste is an unpleasant bitter.
Tried
on 23 Jul 2003
at 20:08
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
A so-so pale ale from a brewery that I don't expect a so-so beer from. Slightly sweet and hoppy aroma. A pretty large amount of malt presence for a pale ale, but not a lot of hops. Light, bready finish. This probably isn't the best beer to make their "flagship product."
Tried
on 20 Feb 2003
at 17:44