Summer Golden Ale
Andrew's Brewing Co. in Lincolnville, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
7.05
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Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Summer Golden Ale from Andrew's Brewing Co. 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2005 draught at the brewery, July 2005. Pours a shining, golden-yellow color, lightly hazy with some brilliant white-gold to copper tinges swirling about. Large, foamy white head due to the fresh, unpasteurized, unfiltered nature. Lacing is large. Aroma of beautifully wed amarillos and a farmy, sweaty, grainy-fresh malt. Sniffable and perfumey, brilliantly done dry-hopping. Coarse, gritty and substantial, this is not thin, watery, bland summer golden. Sweet honey and bread-dough play with grapefruit, limes and lemons, with bubble gum and light hay. Fresh, crisp hops and barley fill the palate on the end, with a moderate and pleasing carbonation and a medium body overall. Just really well malted and flavorful. This ale is dry-hopped, bittered and flavored with amarillos and is their best seller while it’s produced. I can sure believe it.
I wish the rest of Maine would quit making their boring cookie-cutter wheat and barely and malt, bland summer creations and take some inspiration from this. Great stuff and it’s good to see the quality upheld here by the numbers it’s been given thus far.
I hesitate to give it a high rating, thus pretty much setting it up for more exposure and no doubt bringing on the countless assholes who will just slam it, not being able to appreciate its fine construction, despite it being a low gravity golden. Taken for what it is, this is a real gem.
Oakes (33097) reviewed Summer Golden Ale from Andrew's Brewing Co. 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Hazy golden. Soft, fruity aroma. Flavour is like biting into a sugar-covered grapefruit. This is the most grapefruity beer I’ve ever had. No particular balance to it, really, but very refreshing and heck I just like it.