Summer Session
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyIPA - Wheat / White Summer
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Score
6.33
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A traditional summer wheat beer marries a west coast pale ale.
Brewed with locally grown wheat, providing a complex mouthfeel,
and single-hopped and generously dry-hopped with Amarillo, creating a glorious citrusy aroma and finish. The approachable 5% abv makes this the perfect session beer on a summer day.
Brewed with locally grown wheat, providing a complex mouthfeel,
and single-hopped and generously dry-hopped with Amarillo, creating a glorious citrusy aroma and finish. The approachable 5% abv makes this the perfect session beer on a summer day.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a clear golden from a bottle, aroma of tropical fruit, citrus, a little resin, very hoppy obviously. Some slight wheaty edge to the flavor but not much, not as cloudy as many wheat ales are. Rather bitter, but has a full mouthfeel. Okay beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2015
at 20:07
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
6oz bottle. Poured a hazy yellow-orange color with a small white head. Aroma was light orange, grapefruit. Flavor was light lemon peel, some light bready notes. Weak, but refreshing on a 90+ degree day.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jun 2015
at 01:34
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle, best before November 2015, drunk 6/10/15
As one of biggest opponents of Shityard and Alan Pugsley’s evil empire and his ruinous effect of buying out small Maine breweries and centralizing the brewing at Shipyard (and thus ruining the beer), I was loathe to drink this. And to clarify, I’m not suggesting Pugsley is aggressively trying to buy out small breweries (I don’t know if he is or is not), but the fact remains that their yeast and, primarily, backwater, shameful brewing practices produce mostly terrible, horribly diacetyl-ridden beers.
Anyways, it’s too bad Peak voluntarily contracts out of Shipyard. The beer dosent seem so bad; the amarillo are quite well-done, light, lemony, succulent and not overdone. The honey and cracker malts are perhaps a touch too sweet and the malts a little dominant overall. But these are fairly minor details compared to the diacetyl that is rampant. Even from the aroma you know what you’re in for. That this has been going on at this brewery for this long is just shameful. Do the brewers taste these beers?? I’ve got to imagine yes. Guess they just don’t care that much? That lack of care is reflected in their product, of course. Ok rant over. Do the beer world a favor and don’t buy beer brewed at Shipyard (my girlfriend bought this, I would never).
As one of biggest opponents of Shityard and Alan Pugsley’s evil empire and his ruinous effect of buying out small Maine breweries and centralizing the brewing at Shipyard (and thus ruining the beer), I was loathe to drink this. And to clarify, I’m not suggesting Pugsley is aggressively trying to buy out small breweries (I don’t know if he is or is not), but the fact remains that their yeast and, primarily, backwater, shameful brewing practices produce mostly terrible, horribly diacetyl-ridden beers.
Anyways, it’s too bad Peak voluntarily contracts out of Shipyard. The beer dosent seem so bad; the amarillo are quite well-done, light, lemony, succulent and not overdone. The honey and cracker malts are perhaps a touch too sweet and the malts a little dominant overall. But these are fairly minor details compared to the diacetyl that is rampant. Even from the aroma you know what you’re in for. That this has been going on at this brewery for this long is just shameful. Do the brewers taste these beers?? I’ve got to imagine yes. Guess they just don’t care that much? That lack of care is reflected in their product, of course. Ok rant over. Do the beer world a favor and don’t buy beer brewed at Shipyard (my girlfriend bought this, I would never).
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2015
at 19:22
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle sample at a tasting at Beer Market Jaffa. Thanks zvikar. Hazy yellow with a white head. Nice hoppy aroma with some tropical fruits and flowers. Flavor is quite dry with fruity hops and a fresh bitterish finish. Light to medium-bodied. Refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2014
at 11:43
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle, best enjoyed before November 2014, poured into a weizen glass. Pours clear pale yellow with small/medium white head. Aroma is stronger floral hops, medium/light body, medium/light carbonation, and big bubble lacing. Taste is floral (reminds me of dandelion) crisp hops with bitter finish. American wheat beer with pilsner characteristics with quite a bit of flavor, but not my thing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2014
at 18:53