Port City Brewing Company Rivershed Ale

Rivershed Ale

 

Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
6.74
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 30 Ticks: 13
Our tribute to the Chesapeake Bay and the rivers that feed into it, Rivershed Ale is a dry-hopped pale ale brewed with local grains that provide the perfect context for a bright hop flavors.
 

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7

A really nice effort from port city. Golden pour. Some hops and grains. Bit of a malt finish. Enjoyable effort.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 02:03


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Citrus and a little hay. Golden pour with decent tick. Light bitter end. Can.

Tried from Can on 11 Jun 2023 at 18:44


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can. Poured a light golden yellow color with a small white head. Aroma was nice citrus, pineapple, tropical fruit. Quite a pleasant pale ale, nice floral and slightly citrusy juicy hop flavor. Slight crispness.

Tried from Can on 17 Sep 2022 at 03:15


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at the brewery. Pours gold. Peach, chalk, grain, clean citrus. Medium body. Fine.

Tried from Draft on 03 Apr 2022 at 22:10


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

Cask at GBBF'19, day 3, 08/08/19. Lightly hazed golden blonde with a decent off white cap. Nose is melon, grass, tangerine, juicy citric flesh. Taste comprises soft bread, orange pith, melon, papaya. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close splashed with balanced juicy hop bitterness. Decent cask pale.

Tried from Cask on 25 Nov 2021 at 11:35


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

7-25-21 grand liquor, dc

Tried on 26 Jul 2021 at 00:55


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

Sampled from the tap at the brewery. Pours a slightly hazy light yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces. Aroma has light citrus with a tot of peach, light rind and grain backing. Flavor has a dry grass with a hint of rind a straw backbone.

Tried from Draft on 19 Jun 2021 at 01:49


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Lilly, honey, dandelion aroma. Clear golden, thick head. Grass, lillies. Medium body, easy carbonation.

Tried on 03 Nov 2019 at 15:06


5.5

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2019 at 15:31


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


Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2019, [ Great British Beer Festival 2019 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, Greater London, England W14 8UX.

[ As Port City Rivershed Ale ].
ABV: 5.6%. Unclear - hazy medium to light orange yellow colour with a average, frothy - fizzy and open, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, pine, spruce, citrus, floral. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, pine - spruce, fruity hops, pale malt, sweet malt, floral. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20190809]
6-3-7-3-14

Tried from Cask on 11 Aug 2019 at 11:02