St. John Virgin Islands Tropical Mango Pale Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours a beautiful clear apple juice color. The aroma is all mango and light grain. The mouthfeel is smooth and light. The taste is really good made up of malt, wheat and mango.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Brother-in-law brought this one back from a recent Caribbean cruise. Pours a clear amber color with a decent white head and some lacing. Huge mango aroma, slightly sourish, fruity all the way. Taste is tart then syrupy sweet mango - overwhelmingly mango. Good fruity beer that is exactly what it says it is. Thanks bro.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

I had mango in a bunch of other foods and drinks during my visit, so the beer seemed a natural, but it was disappointing. Aroma was slightly fruity and yes, it was mango. But the flavor only had a hint of the fruit. The beer was perhaps too light and it reminded me of bitter water with sour fruit on the back end. I had a hard time finishing it.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

I was suprised at how much I enjoyed this beer, and equally impressed at how the mango shows up. Some of my favorite IIPA's have that tropical fruit/mango profile so to actually have it included in the beer was nice.

The beer pours out a deep gold color, clear with a hefty 2" white head. The aroma has the solid mango notes and some light malty sweetness. No hops detected to signify a pale ale, but the fruit was accounted for. Flavor had the same thing. Lots of juicy mangos on the flavor, light sweet bready malts on the palate with a bit of dirty penny.

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

Tasted during the Nor Cal Beer Geek Tasting on 3/11/2009. This fruit beer poured a pale orange gold color from a 12oz bottle. Small to medium sized head. The aroma is mango, fruity and sweet, touch of butterscotch. A medium to light bodied fruit beer. The malts are fruity and sweet with a lot of ‘mango’, peach and apricot flavors. The hops are kind of citrusy. Guess this could work as a summer beer, the hop and fruit kind of clash together, but it’s a taste I can live with. I am more surprised it’s a Shipyard beer that does not reek of butterscotch and under-attenuated malts. Mouthfeel is a touch thin. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is fruity sweet.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

The label was the initial draw. But I kept debating with myself before setting the bottle in the shopping cart. I am violating the Man’s Rule: ‘No Fruit in the Bear’. Well, it poured a crystal-light amber color. Nice full soapy head, settling within short time into a soapy ring. Fruity, Mango intensive aroma and taste. Body is weak, short of watery. Interesting but the novelty ends with this bottle.

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

Pours a golden-orange color with a decent intial off-white head. The aroma consists of a whole bunch of mango, guess they weren't kidding. Flavor follows suit, blast of mango and some peaches up front, slightly sour, and the finish is bland and weak. Where are the hops? This gives me a whole bunch of fruit juice and that's it. My wife said it tasted like a Coors or Michelob with Mango juice addded... hmmm, I think she might be onto something!