Bar Harbor Lighthouse Ale

Brewed by Bar Harbor Brewing Company (Atlantic Brewing Company)
Style: Mild Ale
Bar Harbor, Maine USA

Bottle thanks to ambergirl! Poured a clear, fiery orange with a modest cap of beige head. The nose was of detergent, mild coffee, and herbal hoppage. Flavor was of mild coffee with a citrus twist, herbal hoppage, and other sweet malts... lost the detergent. Light and slick on the palate... but enough malt backbone to hold it together... light herbal bitterness on the finish. Not bad.

had this on a trip to bar harbour a few years back - its was a real good mirco. Atlantic’s real ale was a marco compared to this beer

Bottle (650ml). via trade with Ruggedman. Poured bright clear copper with a huge lively foamy-creamy lasting off-white head. Light roast caramel malt, somewhat sweet and chocolatey, some fresh grain and very light hops. Mild taste - again, caramel/chocolate malt, mostly very light grain, sweet but not annoyingly so - this is really good! Quite thin-bodied but on-style, soft, lightly carbonated and very faintly astringent - excellent beer, I drank the bomber in no time flat. Well done! Thanks again for the trade, Ruggedman.

beer decants a fairly bright red-brown with an off-white head that retains well and leaves great lace. lightly roasted malt aromas has some dark toast and light chocolate notes. light floral hop aroma. almost a fudge-y flavor up front, with a dusting of dry bitter chocolate in the finish. a bit of earthy hop flavor compliments the toasty/roasty malts in the finish. light bodied beer does what the style is supposed to - delivers an easy-to-drink beer with enough flavor to keep it interesting thru the whole pint. well done.

Pours a light amber color with a huge just off white head that lasts the whole beer. This is a very pleasant well balanced brew. The head is very creamy, and foamy. This is an ideal beer to have with food. It’s a pretty good attempt at a mild ale which is essentially the less bitter or hoppy version of thier beers. Is this a fantastic beer? No. But it’s a pretty good one, something you should certainly try if you can.

(22 oz. bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/portland/ target=blank>Downeast Beverage Co., brew #1749) Pours darkish amber with large biege head. Head a little clumpy as it warms. Aroma is light malt and brown sugar. Sloppy lacing. Mouthfeel kind of thin. Tastes, well, mild. Not alot of flavor, light bitterness, actually very light hints of cherries and spice as it warms. Not much to get excited about.

It’s no exaggeration that this is a mild beer. While lacking in a strong flavor profile, however, it more than compensates by going well with food. I drank this with a Native American style meal - wild rice cakes, succotash, fried chicken, and it harmonized nicely. Nothing auspicious to this beer - well balanced. Long lasting whitish head. Darker in color than I expected, and didn’t seem excessively hopped. Lots of fizz, obvious that the yeast is still kicking. This bottle was old, 2004 consumed fall 2005, but it seemed to hold up well.

2005 bottle consumed on 11/9/05. Very deep amber-crimson body with very fine, bottle conditioned bubbles rising to create a large, beige head that is well-retained. Lacing is in large quantity as well. Surprising for such a low gravity beer. Hops in the aroma give notes of nuts, damp earth and underbrush. Malts provide notes of baguette, soft caramel, honey and light toasted grains. Flavor comes alive with light roast, chewy, dry caramel and balancingly bitter, nutty hops. Fruitiness in both aroma and flavor is quite light, surprisingly. Chocolate malt apparency really comes out as it warms while the roast dies down. Gives a soft, fluffy landing as you near the bottom of the bottle; right as you get tired of the roast, the chocolate softens the experience. Impressive amount of flavor depth when drunk over a range of temperatures. Yeast in the nose creates some drying. Quite light bodied, but not for the style. Everything is dry, but the little bit of sweet malt is used VERY efficiently and artfully. Mouthfeel is soft, with a moderately tight carbonation. No wateriness and no astringency as in some of their other beers. Perhaps just a bit too salty/seltzery. But I think this is just the dulling yeast influence.