Summer Ale
Shipyard Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Wheat Ale Summer|
Score
5.64
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Summer Ale is a traditional American wheat beer with a crisp malted wheat flavor.
A lively brew, it’s a clean, cool, and refreshing light bodied ale, worthy of a relaxing afternoon in the sun. This brew is an ode to summer in Maine and pairs well with lobster, beaches and sunshine. This beer is best enjoyed outside with a lime wedge.
A lively brew, it’s a clean, cool, and refreshing light bodied ale, worthy of a relaxing afternoon in the sun. This brew is an ode to summer in Maine and pairs well with lobster, beaches and sunshine. This beer is best enjoyed outside with a lime wedge.
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6/10
Tried
on 22 Oct 2016
at 07:36
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
From a can: pours the way it looks in that there picture. Aroma is light fruitiness and bread. Taste is bready. Lightly hopped and kind of fruity. Pretty meh.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Aug 2016
at 11:27
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle. Pours a brassy golden color capped by a large rocky white head. Fragrant lemony wheat nose. Flavor upfront is fruity wheat malt. Has hints of citrus, banana and vanilla. Tart citrus malt in middle. Grassy hops in finish. Another ho-hum Summertime America Wheat. Nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jul 2016
at 20:06
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
On Cask at Cask and Vine dry hopped with Citra. Slightly hazy deep yellow color with a decent off white head. Earthy spicy light tropical fruity with bits of citrus. Still quite buttery and that ruins it for me.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 May 2016
at 20:43
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 1/10/2016. Pours lightly hazy deep golden yellow color with a 2 finger dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of lemon, pear, apple, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance of pale malt, earthy hops, and moderate fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of lemon, pear, apple, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lemon, pear, apple, wheat, cracker, biscuit, light honey, herbal, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Good robustness and balance of bready malt, earthy hops, and moderate fruity yeast flavors; with a good malt/bitterness balance and a slight bitter astringency lingering after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, and lightly sticky/bready/chalky mouthfeel that is okay. Alcohol is very well hidden with zero warming present after the finish as expected of 5.1%. Overall this is a solid English pale wheat ale. All around good robustness and balance of pale male, earthy hops, and moderate yeast ester flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. A fairly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2015
at 21:20
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Pours a dark straw from a bottle, aroma of sweet caramel and corn or something like that. Flavor is rather dry, with some hop bitterness. Meh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2015
at 21:32
6/10
Tried
on 09 Jul 2015
at 08:39
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can from Foods Plus, Plaistow, NH. Aroma is minimal--slight malty breadiness/cereal? Appearance is clear golden with minimal sparkling and significant white frothy head (poured it kinda fast) with good lacing. Taste is mild but sweet over bitter. Palate is light to medium with creamy texture with soft carbonation and abrupt finish. Overall, a pretty attractive looking beer with decent mouthfeel but not much else going on. An inoffensive beer to have cold accompanying summer fare--hot dogs/burgers or lobster that goes along for the ride.f
Tried
from Can
on 20 Apr 2015
at 18:47
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
31st August 2014
Bright clear gold beer, tiny white head. Palate is light and semi dry. Fine carbonation. Light pale malts, a touch grainy. Very mild bubblegum ester. Apologetic citrus, barely there. Light semi dry finish. Dull.
Bright clear gold beer, tiny white head. Palate is light and semi dry. Fine carbonation. Light pale malts, a touch grainy. Very mild bubblegum ester. Apologetic citrus, barely there. Light semi dry finish. Dull.
Tried
on 07 Sep 2014
at 07:52
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle, best before December 2014, poured into a weizen glass. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is nice malty grain, medium/light body, lighter carbonation, and some small bubble lacing. Taste is grain and some crisp hops. Sort of in between a kristalweizen and a pilsner, but just average.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2014
at 17:26