Blue Point Summer Ale

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Patchogue, New York USA

12oz bottle. Pours a clear gold color with a small white head. Nose is straw and hay with some grass notes, a bit of honey mixed in. Palate is light bodied with some light playful hints and a sticky tongue. Flavors of honey, grass and hay. A crispness to it with a sugary texture.

2006 bottle on 5/20/06. Actually retained head just shows fresheness as this is filtered and artificially carbonated. Fades to ring quickly, zero lacing, and a clear straw-golden body. Hoppy nose has straw, dill, oregano and light barley hints. The flavor is wet vanilla and light honey atop chewy grahahm crackers. Rather dulled by some water and leafiness, but quite clean in the yeast and alcohol department. Filtered and unadventurous can only get you so far.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with shadey, thanks Shane!) Gentle aromas of lightly sweet grain and tea-like hops. The mild flavor is a bit more balanced toward the sweet grain, but light tea still strikes a chord in the finish. Light-medium bodied isn’t nearly as thin as I was expecting, and carbonation is solid. Medium straw in color with just the slightest of haze. Tiny carbonation bubbles rise in slow-motion toward the surface of the beer. Standard white head settles to a wide ring while leaving only a few broken patches on the glass. Not a whole lot here, but it’s pleasant enough and surely easy to suck down on a warm day.

Thanks to DMeyers69 for this bottle. Light hoppy aroma, a bit floral. Carbonic aroma, mild sweet grainy malts. Medium goldern amber clear with a thin white lacing head. Light watery body, almost crisp, with medium-high carbonation. Starts with decent grainy malts. Light beany carbonic acid burn, with medium hoppy bitterness. Finish is medium bitter with light alum astringency. Powdery bitter with light sweetness.

12 oz bottle. Clear yellowish gold with a lasting white head. Aroma is DMS and mellow flowers and pale malts. Taste is nicely hopped with a smooth mouthfeel. Finishes a bit of tart lemon instead of following with that nice hoppiness.

On tap. Pours a clear gold with a white head. Light lemony aroma and flavor. Slighty sweet malt taste accompanies the lemon flavor. A decent beer after a round of golf.

Tap at brewery. Clear golden color. Citrusy and light in both aroma and flavor. Pretty refreshing. Would make a nice lawn mower beer.

I guess I’d say it was refreshing and summery - but it didn’t quite do it for me. It was drinkable...just not remarkable in any way (I had a bottle a few days ago and nothing stands out in my mind that was worth remembering). Don’t get me wrong, it was far from horrible, just not excellent (or, apparently, all that memorable).