Alaskan Summer Ale

12oz bottle. Gold color with a big, brilliant white head. Light aroma with fruity pear and spicy hops. The flavor has a nice clean malt body with light fruitiness and low bitterness, though enough hop balance to make it interesting. Pretty refreshing, but the fruitiness is a little much after the aroma belies a cleaner taste.

ON tap; seeing what style it is classified as, it makes a bit more sense. Still this was pretty poor. Aroma was ok, but really light; watery if an aroma can be that. Flavor was dry and grainy; a bit plain. Not much hopping and flavor. Below average for the style for me.

i love this beer. it goes down quite easy and the crisp, citrus taste goes well with the lagerish body. Kolsch’s are interesting indeed.

Bottle sampled at Alan’s initiation, thanks Dogbrick: This is just not my cup of tea. Very pale pour, aroma is very faint traces of esters and grass. Light-bodied, slightly funky, yeasty. I could see drinking this very cold on a hot day. Not terrible, but not a sipper.

Pours a light straw color with no head or lacing. Aroma is lacking but a light estery component. Flavor is light malt no bitterness. A nice summer but nothing big on flavor. Body is fairly light.

Bottle. Pours a dark gold with one finger white head. Nose is light grassy hops, sweet malt and banana. Palate is sweet malt, spice and light hops. Medium mouth feel with zero lacing. Ok beer.

Bottle. Looked good in the glass, a golden orange with a thick head that faded away in a couple minutes. Taste was a little muted, a little bready, a little yeasty, a little hops, maybe some honey in the background, and do I taste a little off-metallic flavor? Not very crisp. Nothing really wrong, but there’s a lot of better thirst quenching summer beers out there.

bright pale gold color with a medium thin white fizzy head. Light grain and spicy hop aroma. Light body, lively and very clean carbonation. A good clean malt flavor with a light lasting bitterness. Well balanced and very drinkable