Extra Pale Ale
Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Pale Ale Regular|
Score
6.34
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The beer that started it all! Our first brew, Summit Extra Pale Ale is St. Paul’s craft beer pioneer. EPA has been gracing the pint glasses of serious beer lovers since 1986. Caramel biscuit malts balanced with a juicy citrus hop bite have led this beer to be crowned a winner through the years and for more to come!
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle. Poured a light golden copper color. Aroma is floral and earthy hops, light biscuit malts. Flavor is earthy, slightly floral hops and malts. Decent, solid brewed American Pale Ale. Nothing to call home about. Probably a good gateway brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2011
at 15:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Purchased at Binny’s in Chicago, IL as part of a 12 pack sampler, enjoyed after the last horrid Friday commute I’ll have for a while! Appearance is a very cloudy golden amber with a very frothy white head. Aroma of bready/toasted malt with earthy hop profile and a bit of spices, richer than other APA’s I’ve smelled and more robust. Taste is interesting, it’s good as it’s got a nice earthy/floral hop profile mixed with toasted malt, but it’s somewhat light when compared to other beers in the style with a slight touch of sweetness. It’s more hoppy than malty, but I’d say in a 60/40 kind of way. This would make a great ’session’ ale, I’d definitely recommend it and think it’s the bees knees.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2011
at 16:52
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Received in trade from depechemode1983 thanks for the opportunity! Pours a deep golden amber color with a bubbly white head that dissipates quickly. Smells mostly of peaches and citrus with a slightly herbal hop aroma. Taste is malty sweet. Bready biscuit and toffee malts rule a slightly herbal floral hop bite. Medium body and carbonation level. Sweet almost sticky mouthfeel. Decent enough pale ale, but nothing extraordinary. Glad I got to try, but I wouldn’t seek out again.
Tried
on 28 May 2011
at 19:55
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From a 12oz bottle from Pick’s Liquors poured into a Shaker. Thick white head that dissipates quickly. It’s a golden orange color, somewhat hazy. Sightly hoppy aroma, but not much there in the way of scent. Taste is medium bitter, great hop taste. This beer is medium bodied with a slick texture. Average carbonation and a long bitter finish. Overall, its a pretty good beer. I would buy it again except for the fact that it is really expensive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2011
at 16:37
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
12oz bottle thanks to Douglas88
Appearance: Clear golden with a big white head and some lacing
Aroma: Stale pale malts and citrus
Taste: Pale malts, caramel and citrus
It was OK.
Appearance: Clear golden with a big white head and some lacing
Aroma: Stale pale malts and citrus
Taste: Pale malts, caramel and citrus
It was OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2011
at 22:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
pression @ OTH. ambre, blanche. Arôme, fruité, je ressens du kiwi et pastèque et grains. Goût, fruité, pastèque, balance entre le malt et le houblon pour un fini qui reste mi-amer. Facile à boire.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2010
at 15:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Picked up a lot of bready, biscuity malts on this one with a slight hops presence. Slight citrus in the flavor, too. Maybe it was old? I don’t know, I really didn’t pick up much in the way of hops, though. Still, decent brew.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2010
at 17:45
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Poured a clear bronze with a thin white head. Aroma had some pine notes as well as a grain and cereal note. Flavor was sweet from the malts with the pine hops being more of an undertone.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2010
at 16:51
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle thanks to angrypirate06. Pours with an off-white head and a burnt golden body. Aroma is grassy with husky grain and some sweetness. Taste is grainy, astringent, cardboard, wet dog and perhaps some very light pine hops. Fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2010
at 09:23
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft: Golden orange with a modest sandy colored head. Nice thick sheets of lacing. Mild, almost faint aroma is lightly sweet with citrus and caramel. The tastes comes through much more flavorful. Citrus hops, grapefruit, even grape itself, and a small amount of maltiness. Wet feeling overall. Very light floral element. This is drinkable stuff; potentially a perfect house beer for summer.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Oct 2009
at 11:08