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
6.20
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 30 Ticks: 54
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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8.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
Great golden colour, perfect Pale Ale smell...all-around one of the best tasting Pale Ales. Perfectly balanced, not too hoppy!
Tried on 10 Jan 2003 at 12:57

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Amber. Clean, dry and superbly balanced. Very drinkable.....................
Tried on 21 Jan 2002 at 06:19

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Well-balanced session ale. It's hard to wrap your head around the fact that there aren't caramelized rose petals, sandalwood oils, hickory-smoked ostrich eggs or some other bizarre stuff in here. Imagine, a normal-tasting beer from DFH.
Tried on 18 Aug 2001 at 12:23

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Golden and fizzy. Interesting fruit aromas (grapes and apples?) but intensely hoppy, with firmly bitter aftertaste. Mellows as you finish. Much easier to drink the last 2 sips than the first two.
Tried on 12 Jul 2000 at 18:21