Shipyard Export Ale

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Poured a rich golden hue from the 12oz. bottle: Aromas of caramel, sugar, and butterscotch. The finish leaves a sweet sensation that’s better than the mouthfeel, which is a bit fizzy. Everything is light and faint: aroma, flavors, finish. Crisp bite to it with minute apricot notes. Pretty bitter. #137 on 11102009, DG.

draft. Ringwood yeasty aromas, fruity, malty with grasy hops. Pours amber blonde with a thick white head. I’m not sure if its cause this keg is very fresh but this tastes so much crisper than i remember. Very crisp hop bite, with bready malts. This really is a great session beer.

Has the look of a B/M/C golden yellow exxcept for a puffy white head. Some big carbonation bubbles and a slight haze. Minor lace. The smell is a nice sweet English tavern ale aroma. Sweet, biscuity malt. Bready ringwood yeast adds a nice dry touch. Has the dry quasi-sweet taste of a bitter ale. Has notice of apricot and orange, but in the background. Slight lagery hop bitterness, but not much. Very very pleasant. Wet and thirst-quenching, but with a dry bready finish. Highly "quaffable." A very good session bitter. Sweeter than normal, but well-balanced and smooth.

Bottle. Smells of slight sweet fruit and grain. Appearance of a boring piss pale ale color, but did indeed have good lacing and decent head retention. Primarily tasted hops with each gulp being bitter, but this brew did have a smooth crispy finish. Boring palate, enough said. Overall this is about as average as you can get.

bottle, almond color with white foam, aroma is malty,fruit, flavor is fruit with a nice sour wine bitterness, average finish

Aroma is nonexistant. Pours gold with white head. Very crisp, with a nice clean bite on the finish.

A: Poured with an average-sized, white head that dissipated quickly to a thin film. Body is clear and sparkling, with a slight amount of haziness, and a dark-golden color. S: Do I detect some malt in there? The hops are what mainly come through, but I could swear there’s some sweetness as well... T: Pretty good flavor... lightly sweet at the beginning, and then ends lightly bitter. It’s really not very hoppy for an APA, but still pretty tasty. Duration of the flavor is average. M: Medium bodied, oily texture, with average carbonation. Finish is, again, slightly bitter and even a little astringent. D: By the time this beer was warming near the middle or so, it was starting to taste almost as malty as it was hoppy. Weird. Either way, it would be easy to drink a couple of these, but there’s many better APAs out there.

I’ve had this on tap and in the bottle at various places but unfortunately don’t have good tasting notes beyond the numbers.