Shipyard Summer Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Pours pure deep gold with thin white head. The aroma is light with notes of grains and acidity and little else. The taste is refreshing grains and mild lemon acidity mixing with floral hop notes. To the finish a brief note of roastiness is noticed.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Wheaty aroma has a yeasty overtone and floral hints. Pours a clear solar yellow with a decent but not too persistent white head. Flavor is wheaty, a little yeasty, with again that floral touch. Texture has about average fizziness and body, not bold but not watery. Refreshing and summery, if not outstanding - have one while passing the time on a sweltering day.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Pours out a clean yellow color with a good whit head. The aroma, well there really isn't any. The mouthfeel is very thin and the taste. Well the best way I can describe it is it's beer flavored water.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

This is actually my least favorite of the Shipyards that I tried...close call between this and their Pumpkin. In the middle of my summer brew sampling phase, and this beer is one that I probably won't try again or miss. Thinkin I prefer more towards the Kolsch and Pilsner styles, or a golden ale even...over an American Wheat. The flavor seemed a little rustic and bitter, but not in a good hoppy way. Everything else is pretty much average.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottled@The 2nd ES/CS Beer Tasting. (thanks K.K.!). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fruits, wheat, some hops, sweet malts and mild bready notes as well. Flavour is being quite much the same. Bland and quite watery.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

May 2010 - Well, you can’t be disappointed if you’re not expecting much. Watery and bland, it was hard to even tell it was a wheat ale. High levels of carbonation and a slight tart finish are about the only distinguishable characteristics.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

A pale golden colored beer. A medium sized creamy textured off white head rises above. Settles fairly quickly into a thin cap. Big sweet wheat nose. Medium bodied. Loads of carbonation and bold creaminess. The taste is far blander than the aroma. A mustiness of wheat dances on the palate. Drinkable, but again it lacks that ‘WOW’ factor.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

I also had this on tap in Booth Bay, Maine. Tried it out since I saw a few signs for Shipyard up there. Wasn't too bad, a decent brew I might have again. But overall the flavor was too weak-flavored. Easy enough to drink though.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

On tap at a pizza place in Booth Bay, ME. Another completely uneventful entry from Shipyard. Easy drinking, but characterless, and nearly flavorless. If Bernie Bott's made a beer flavored jellybean, this is probably what it would taste like; it is just that standard-issue.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottle: Poured a golden color ale with a small bubbly white head with limited retention. Aroma of weak malt with some yeast. Taste of weak wheat malt is overall quite boring with again a weird and off taste of yeast coming through. Light hops at the end provide a dry aftertaste. Definitely boring for a style that doesn’t produce much in term of great beers.