Pours copper with an off-white head. Aroma has soft caramel malt with a good amount of hops. Medium body. Hop presence is apparent from start to finish - piney and woody. Some grainy malt detectable in the background, but this is definitely a hop based beer. Hoppy, but not a knock in the head hopfest - a solid effort from O’Fallon. Very nice.

12oz. bottle. Fairly slight aroma, just some faint herbal hops and hints of citrus combined with husky, grainy malts. Light golden amber color with a lasting, fine, off-white head and clingy lace. Flavor is lightly bitter and hoppy to start, these leafy and citric, seeing a bit of pale maltiness about midpoint, and finishing dry and spicy with faint suggestions of lemon and pine. Palate is tangy and fairly effervescent, body is light-medium. Drinkable but not exactly exciting. Appropriately summery, however.

12 oz Bottle: Pours a nice golden color, like a standard macro agree with tjthresh about larger than normal bubbles. The aroma is of light lemony hops, nothing sepctacular. The flavor is mild, but quite nice. I think the normal ho-hum quality is what it was going for with a name like summer brew, a lawn mowing beer with much above average (when speaking of macro) flavor. Some toasty/roasted flavoring along with some pine, citrus, and grassy flavors. I don’t know why, but it reminds me of Milwaukee, some sort of lager charcteristic is my guess, can’t put my finger on it exactly-I think it might just be the working man mentality I have with this flavor, no beer geek worldbeater, but a good and tastey flavorful beer.

Poured into a shaker glass. Pale golden color. Formed a decent white head that receeded to just a thin layer on top. Larger than normal bubbles. The aroma is pretty spicey. Grainy, almost adjuct malt aroma. Maybe toasted. The flavor is very ho-hum. Spicey or earthy hop flavor. Husky. Nice bitterness, and a crisp finish. Just doesn’t really taste all that good.

tap and bottle samples from various places. pours light orange with a soapy white head. aroma of spicy hops on tap, but in the bottle, a more piney note comes across with lots of toasted pale malt base-grainy, like cereal. the cascade hops they used must have been pretty green-grassy and spicy notes predominate the hop tone here. flavors of crisp pale malt husks, grassy hops, and the ofallon house malt/yeast twang on the finish. body is crisp, medium carbonation with a nice feel on the tongue. i would have to say this is a well balanced and fun drinking pale with some nice crisp flavors. A good compliment to the wheach for 2 solid summer beers.