New Glarus Brewing Company Apple Ale

Apple Ale

 

New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸

  Cider - Graff Series
Score
7.25
ABV: 4.0% IBU: - Ticks: 75
A few times a year we cut Dan loose to brew whatever he chooses. Always handcrafted, the bottle you hold is brewed for the adventurous soul. This is a very limited edition and we make no promises to ever brew this style again.

Apple Ale sings with the fresh crisp taste of Wisconsin apples. Our Brewmaster begins with a brown ale base employing Wisconsin farmed barley and a blend of apple varieties grown in Door County. Our apple growing friends squeeze them especially for this brew. Expect this ale to pour a beautiful copper color. The fresh bouquet of apple will rise to meet you even before the glass touches your lips. So be sure to sip slowly and enjoy the fruits of a Wisconsin harvest.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle, courtesy of Douglas from Portland. Thank you. Shared in Rome-Italy. Caramel hazy light, bubbles. Nose: cinnamon, amaretto, boiled apple. Mouth: sweet approach of syrup, clean and dry candy, apple. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2016 at 08:29


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

A hazed amber ale with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity apple pulp with light mineral notes, light flower perfume, nice. In mouth, a nice sweet cider like offering with Apple pulp, light mineral notes, light chalky character, refreshing. On tap at Cajun Café spring beer fest 2016.

Tried from Draft on 16 Apr 2016 at 13:58


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 7/21/2015. Pours slightly hazy deep orange/copper color with a 1-2 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big balanced sweet/tart apples, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, light cinnamon/spice, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Fantastic aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready malt, apples, and light earthy hop/spice notes; with great strength. Taste of big balanced sweet/tart apples, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, light cinnamon/spice, and herbal/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate fruit tartness and light herbal/spice bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of sweet/tart apple, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, light cinnamon/spice, and herbal/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, apples, and light earthy hop/spice notes; with a great malt/tart/spiciness balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from the apple acidity as well. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied; with a very smooth, fairly creamy/acidic, and slightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 4%. Overall this is a fantastic fruit beer. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt, apples, and light earthy hop/spice flavors; and very smooth and refreshing to drink. A highly enjoyable offering.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2016 at 19:33


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

12 oz. bottle from my Secret Santa, shared at Ale Alpharetta. Pours a clear orange, with a small, bubbly, tan head. The nose is strong red delicious and gala apples, light cinnamon, white sugar, and some light caramel. Very fruity and sweet, with a light acidic tartness. Medium body, crisp, acidic, and clean through the finish. This is a very forward apple beer, but very tasty. This is what a fruit beer ought to be!

Tried from Bottle on 18 Sep 2015 at 10:23


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours unclear blonde, ok white head. Smell is pure apples, funky, bit sweet. Taste is bit bitter, full, narural tasting applejuice. No real beercharactereft.

Tried on 16 Jan 2015 at 09:46


8.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle, thanks to one of my co-workers. Poured a slightly cloudy light copper yellow color with a small white head. Aroma was wonderful. Like fresh sqeezed apples, some light sweetness even comes off this one - it reminds me of quality cider. The flavor was delicious. It was like a very juicy apple juice, very fresh. Very mild caramel notes. Incredibly easy to drink, the alcohol is there, but it doesn’t get in the way, clearly.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2015 at 16:32


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle split on the hotel patio, SD, big thanks to GT2 for gifting me this number 14/11/14. Rich amber/chestnut brown with a light beige covering. Nose is big on apple pulp, straw, light caramel, woody must, more apple juice. Taste comprises sweet apple juice, light pear and prune backnotes, caramelised brown sugar, sweet licks. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, sweet licks in the close. Ok for style but a little too sweet for me overall - full on apple orchard attack!

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2015 at 08:26



7.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Bottle courtesy of GT2. Pours hazy brownish golden (actually pretty much apple must coloured) with a very small fizzy offwhite head that quickly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass. Smell is fruity and slightly malty with graham crackers, caramel, ripe apples, cinnamon, hay and lemon peal. Taste is tiny sweet, tiny sour, fruity and slightly malty with graham crackers, apple must, cinnamon, nutmeg, moist soil, orange zest and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is crisp, sparkling, slightly tart and light bodied. Finish is tiny sour and fruity with graham crackers, smashed red apples, minerals, hay, orange zest and lemon zest. Aggressive sparkling carbonation, low sweetness, suiting tartness and tons of apple fruitiness makes up for a great fruit beer experience.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2014 at 11:22


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

12.05.2014, 0,35l bottle @ home, courtesy of RobertDale:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is sweet fruity, sweet apples, caramel malts, sugar, hay, raisins, hints of red berries. Taste is sweet slightly sour-ish fruity, sweet fresh apples, soda powder, red berries, caramel malts, raisins, cinnamon, hay, grass. Little bitterness, fresh light acidic fruity mouthfeel. Very nice and easy drinking.

Tried from Bottle on 12 May 2014 at 07:49