Shipyard Chamberlain Pale Ale

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: English Pale Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Sweet ringwood aroma, fluffy head, copper in color. Sassy hop flavor with tight bitterness and a rounded, sweetness. Slight hop tingle on the finish. Decent drinker a nice English pale.

Light and coppery in the glass. Lots of aroma -- floral, herbal, hopcit. No real malt backing to the beer keeps the hops front and center, but the beer and the hops lack richness and depth.

12 ounce bottle in pint glass. Clear copper with nice head and lace. Honey sweet aroma with mild lemon and soap, very much like a pale lager. Medium honey sweetness with mild toastiness and slight apricot fruitness. Very mild bitterness. Lingering sweet finish. Medium-light body and medium-low carbo. Tastes like a well-made and very fresh. But tastes more like a pale lager than a pale ale. Lacks the fruity spicy bitterness of an ale. As it warms up, though, it gains a lot more ale-like character, bitterness and complexity. Pretty good, but definitely let it warm up.

Deep gold color with a small white head. Yeasty esters and sweet malt aromatics. Caramel and 2 row maltiness in the flavor, with some butteriness in the finish. Mouthfeel is light medium.

Crafty07 describes this well.....I agree it’s good, but not great. Certainly not entirely worthy of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain himself. From the bottle, pours nice, and the flavor is well balanced but without much distinction.

22oz bottle. Pours Clear golden with full foarmy white head. Aroma malty and lite floral hops. Taste malt, sweet and little hops with bitter finish.

7/3/07: Bottle.
Honey colored body. Nose has a heavy honey aroma. Sweet malt, caramel and honey flavor with a sticky, bitter finish.

Bomber - Pours a darkish amber in color with a whitish head that faded to a faint white rim aroud the glass. Aroma is of flowery and a bit spicy hops. Flavor is quite hoppy and nicely bitter. Finish is slightly bitter and fairly lasting. A good pale ale and one worth repeating...