Apple Ale
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Cider - Graff Series|
Score
7.26
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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.
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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7.8/10
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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
8.8/10
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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.
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
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
(end of my back log DEC 12, 2013) from a 12 oz bottle. Somebody without a sense of smell could still smell the apple here. Crazy amounts of Apple. Hazy amber complexion with very fleeting head. The flavor is a mix of varieties of apples. Red and green. Very sweet with a touch of tartness, just tart enough not to make it cloying. Funny thing for me it’s more like drinking a cider. Exceptional for a fruit beer. 3.8 % ABV it damn near is fruit juice however, really nice fruit juice at that.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2014
at 19:52
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Looks like I’m the last person to rate this beer. Candy orange. Nose is full of apples. just a huge obvious apple pie to the face. Wow. It tastes just like raw apple right off the tree. Sweet, earthy, raw and really out of the way malt profile. This is one of the most perfect fruit beers.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Dec 2013
at 15:05
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Aroma is almost all apples. It really reminds me of Martinelli’s Apple Cider. Faint maltiness in the background and not quite as sweet. Pours a fairly clear copper orange with a somewhat thin off-white/light tan head that quickly recedes to the edges. Flavor is very similar to the aroma. A light malt note and faint bitterness, but otherwise it is like drinking non alcoholic apple cider. Moderate sweetness but not sticky at all. The apple flavor gets stronger as it lingers on your tongue. Finish is apples and a faint cracker malt note. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with medium carbonation; this is the big difference from apple cider - it has more body to it. Faint astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall its a very interesting beer. Should I even call it a beer? So much apple character with a faint malt presence and a bit more body than regular cider. This isn’t like drinking a beer with some apple character, but instead like drinking apple cider with a hint of malt.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2013
at 22:30
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours clear amber with a small creamy off-white head and decent lacing. Aroma is green apple and not much else. Flavor is apple as well, medium sweet and lightly tart. Medium body, low carbonation; nice enough, but why not just make (or drink) a cider?
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2013
at 20:02