Summit Brewing Company Extra Pale Ale

Extra Pale Ale

 

Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale Regular
Score
6.35
ABV: 5.1% IBU: 49 Ticks: 61
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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6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

bottle - Pours copper and clear with a medium sized head that fades to thin and then lingers indefinitely and leaves excellent lacing. The aroma is dominated by the citrus hops. The flavor is mainly those hops (Cascade?) and some light caramel malts. It’s a little watery, lightly carbonated, and very easy to drink. While I’d prefer some more intense flavor and a more full body, this beer would be easy to drink all night.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Aug 2007 at 23:11


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Sample from tap at the brewery. Pours orange with lacing white head. Aroma is slight sweet fruity and caramel sweet. Flavour is floral, strong bitter and still sweet. Has a nice bitter finish.

From cask with Cascade Hops. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty and crisp hops fruity. Bitter, mild fruity and light peachy. Crisp hoppy, bitter and smooth fruity finish.7-3-7-3-14

Tried from Draft on 30 Jun 2007 at 02:27


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Tap. Amber in color, nice white head. Aroma is malty. Taste is malt, with a nice full finish. Very solid beer.

Tried from Draft on 11 Dec 2006 at 10:16


6.2
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 13

Draft and bottle. Copper pour with a small off-white head. Floral aroma with hints of caramel. The bottled version was much sweeter than the draft — perhaps because of age. The hops were much more subdued in the bottle as well. Both draft and bottle were fairly standard renditions of an APA. Nothing to make you sit up and take notice. OK hop bite atop the sweet backbone. Medium body and watery texture. Enjoyable for a session beer.

Tried from Draft on 24 Oct 2006 at 16:37


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy chestnut color with a small khaki head. The aroma is sour nut, strong floral and fruity hops and light molasses and maple syrup. The flavor is sour nut, strong molasses and maple syrup and crisp floral and fruity hops. There is a tangy bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Oct 2006 at 20:49


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

On Tap. Poured a clear amber orange color with a huge head. A little tast of hops and a lot of bubbls.

Tried from Draft on 01 Jul 2006 at 10:21


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

Bottled. Clear orange colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruity and hoppy. Flavour is fruity, hoppy and a bit roasted? and grassy. Smooth brew which at the same time is very refreshing. As the desription says, this beer will most likely not offend anyone.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Apr 2006 at 04:13


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

Bottled
Dark semi- hazy orange/copper brown, good off-white head. Flowery hoppy (Cascade?) nose with some ryeish malt notes. Medium-bodied. Starts with some sugary sweetness, then crunchy hops. Aftertaste is more on sweet side than bitter. Easy to drink APA, nothing really outstanding, but drinkable "summer drink".

Tried from Bottle on 16 Apr 2006 at 04:13


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

Clear amber-copper body, medium off-white head. Nose of caramel, pine, and citrus. Toasty body with caramel, light fruit, pine, and grapefruit rind (but not overdone or of IPA strength). Rather thin-bodied and easy drinking.

Tried on 24 Aug 2004 at 21:19


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

Draft, Minneapolis. Nice to see a larger craft brewer whose flagship brand is not the usual pale pilsner. And nice to see that it's readily available on tap in the Twin Cities (it's even on a few taps here in Chicago). A pleasing amber/copper color, toasty malty sweetness and a refined hop spiciness... definitely not IPA level, but enough to tell the novice beer drinker there's another world out there. Great with those Matt's hamburgers with the cheese fried inside the patty (a Minneapolis tradition my brother introduced me to)!

Tried from Draft on 04 Aug 2003 at 06:16