Atlantic Bar Harbor Summer Ale

Brewed by Atlantic Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

(12oz bottle, best by 10/07) Clear apple juice body with small off-white head. Aroma is mild, medium sweet, apple juice, some orange. Taste is medium sweet, apple/peach, some bread, light dusky. Light body. Not awful, but awfully bland.

Any first impressions?
-A narrow ring of foam is soon created by the fizzy carbonation over the transparent, aqueous bronze.
-Weak cereals and dry minerals produce a shy, macro-like aroma.
-Anoxeric honeyed maltiness cannot muster enough personality to make me believe I’m not drinking a BudMillerCoors product.
-A very frail malt backbone, watery leanings, and frothy fizz evoke soda.

What if you dig deeper?
-Aftertaste is nearly non-existant; there are no defects to be found, but there aren’t many flavors either.
-Bready connotations can be found, in despair.
-The semblance of a minty hop flavor is buried within.
-I don’t know what gets on my nerves more: an infected product, or a purposely watered-down beer from someone who can brew better. This behavior just perpetuates the idea that "refreshing" has to be tasteless.

Bottle; best before date was not notched.

Pours gold with a thin white head. When I asked the server what this beer tastes like prior to serving, he told me it was somewhat similar to Gumballhead. A very bold statement if way off. Smelled of grapefruit. Tasted of wheat and hops. Not their best offering. Maybe after they’ve tweaked the recipe a bit.

On draught at the brewery, 8/14/2005. Golden-amber-yellow with a white head that recedes to ring. Rather filtered and very clear. Smells of wheat, hay-like hoppiness, some floral notes. Orange-tea with honey. Flavor is warm biscuits and honey, fairly gritty/chewy wheatiness. Bready/doughy as well with a fairly strong yeastiness on the end. Dry, slight astringency in the middle with only a touch of caramel. Moderate carbonation, large bubbles. Light, farmy hops add a touch of bitterness on the end. Cornbread and milkiness from the malted wheat. Medium-light body.

12oz bottle purchased at the brewery. Pours pale yellowish with a bright white head. Little to no nose. Taste is bitter with no redeeming qualities. DRAIN POUR.

On tap at the brewery. Clear golden color with a ring of white lace. Aroma and flavor of citrus. Light and creamy palate.

Bouteille de 12 oz achetée directement à la brasserie. Arôme: Très légère odeur de citron. Apparence: La couleur est cuivrée avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un large col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Très léger goût de citron et de savon. Courte durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps et la texture sont mince. Faible effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût très légèrement savonneux. (Rating #1899)

Thin and very carbonated - almost like a soda. Some ginger in the aroma, little bit of lemon. Taste was very lightly malty, no hop presence, very little character (this is a wheat? could hardly tell). Thanks to my friend Paul for this bottle (not the best of the dozen or so he brought me, but it’s still appreciated!)