South Shore Applefest Ale

Brewed by South Shore Brewery/Wilmarths Deepwater Grille
Style: Fruit Beer
Ashland, Wisconsin USA

Light hexane malt aroma. Cloudy apple cider pour. Slight apple flavor, but mostly a real mellowed malt caramel. Finishes savory and tangy.

A 5 minute pour, huge bubbly head, lots of carbonation. Cloudy amber color. Aroma of apples and hops. Flavor is sour apples, hops, and a touch of honey. Overall a nice balance.

a light golden pour w/ lots of carbonation bubbles and a huge tall sticky small bubbled white head lots of lacing. Smells lightly nutty almost a touch sour in the hop to light for me. Palate was light ok coated not much to it really. Tastes of wheat and grain lightly fruity. Not much to this beer. Thanks to Blake for sharing.

Pours to a HUGE fizzy head. BE CAREFUL when pouring. If the head was more manageable, this would be rated higher. The body is a hazy straw color with ultra-tiny particulate. Excellent lacing once the gargantuan white head dies down. The aroma is not fruity at all. More honey and dry silage. Corn stalks. Silage. The flavor is corn silage, wheat, grains. Oddly, the flavor isn’t offensive. The palate is pretty basic, but good.

Very fizzy pour... left a frothy off-white head. Hazy-like slightly dirty gold/amber body. Aroma consists of dry honey-like grainy grass hops. Fizzy carbonation dominates the tongue. Taste is dry corn and grains... some bright hops pick up the flavor from the floor a bit. Overall... its okay, but too fizzy. And I question the Ratebeer style of this beer. Looking at the description, it says nothing about apples, so I wonder if this is something brewed for "applefest", which may be one of those "northwoods" festivals?

This beer was tough to pour out of the bottle. The initial pour was a half inch of beer and six inches of a very faomy off-white head. It eventually calmed down enough ot pour the rest of the bottle in. It ended up being an attractive deep golden color with the foam just coating the glass as I drank. The nose was mostly dusty grains. Maybe it is because I was expecting something as overpoweringly apple as the New Glarus, but there is virtually no apple in this beer. Lots of cereal grain flavors with some honey sweetness. I think it is mostly the power of suggestion, but there may be some sour apple toward the end. Minimal hop finish. Not really a bad ale, but not what I expected.

thanks JPDIPSO
Holy Huge Head batman - the carbonation and residual clouds are the highlight. The aroma is pleasant, yet not too fruity. It is all dry, roasted and dry again, with not a whisper of apple in the flavor. This seems to be an amber ale in the mold of Fat Tire. It must be the Lake Superior water - something here just doesn’t agree with me.

Pours a clear copper bronze with a thick, thinly-lacing off-white head. Dry pale malty and corny aroma has a hint of sweet candy apples. Starts semi-sweet and overcarbonated with some mild fruit toward a semi-tart bubbly finish. Once the carbonation dies down, this smooths out some. An ok fruit beer, but could use a touch more fruit and balance. Thanks to JPDIPSO for the bottle.