Atlantic Bar Harbor Real Ale

The most popular draught beer in Bar Harbor, ME. This beer is a Mild by style, and is one of the best domestic examples I have ever tasted. This is the ultimate session brew, a beer to drink when you want to drink quite a few. Mild is a very underdone style here in the US, and it has seen a major decline in the UK as well. That is a shame, because this is a wondeful beer style. Milds are low in alcohol, lighter in body, and mild in hop bitterness. This is a nutty, slightly sweet malty brew that will slake the thrist of the hardest working coal miner, or the most seasoned beer lover. Fantastic stuff, seek it out.

On draught at the brewery in Bar Harbor, this beer is incredible. It pours at a number of bar and restaurants in Bar Harbor, and is the most popular draught beer on Mt. Desert island in Down East, Maine. Stylistically this beer is billed as a Nut Brown Ale, but it tastes more like a Mild to me, and a very good one. Bar Harbor Real Ale pours to a beautiful, slightly murky brown color with a nice tan head that fades, and a moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent with lots of good sweet malty and nutty malt aromas. The palate is full, but by no means hefty, with good sweet malt, pale, and nutty malt flavors. Some light flavors of estery fruit play a supporting role. This beer finishes with more good sweet and nutty flavors up front, then ends with just enough flowery hop bitterness to balance the cloying nature of this beer out. Contract bottled version from Ship Yard is quite good as well, but not as impressive as the Atlantic Coast brewed version in Bar Harbor. Well worth seeking out if you are in Maine, or markets where Bar Harbor Real Ale is sold.

This is a great ale, it could become a real classic with me. Perfect body, great balance between malt and hops, finishes with delightful cleanness (is that a word?).

Had this on fresh off the tap at my uncle’s house in Maine, down the road from the brewery. Sat around drinking on a lake in the moonlight. Nice brown body, hazlenuts on the nose, light hops provide wonderful balance. One of my favorite beers ever... but it could be because I was having so much fun while drinking it.

Scored this at Total Wines in Jville. Leather brown pour with some red hints. Lots of malts and mild hops. Some faint coffee hints and a little licorice it seems. Nutty aftertaste. Far better than the run of the mill competition.....update. Is this a stout or a Brown Ale? You couldn’t tell it’s so good. I can’t believe this isn’t rrated higher.