Belfast Bay Lobster Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pretty decent ale. Some mineral aroma and taste. Somewhat fruity. Serving: Bottle

Bière de type amber ale de 5% d’alcool, peu pétillante, peu mousseuse, notes de pommes, excellente pour accompagné une bonne chaudrée de palourdes du Maine.

Pours a deep amber with a big fizzy head that laces slightly. Nose is funky, sour, almost spoiled. Taste is much better than the smell. Mild flavor of balanced mellow hops and malts. The smell is a bit much to get past, I almost suggest drinking this beer straight from the bottle as I feel the nose does more harm than good. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Aroma of brown sugar, dark fruits and sourdough. Pours red. Tastes of ginger, sugar, and figs. Cool.

Translucent amber with a thin but lasting beige head; sticky medium body with medium-high carbonation.

Aroma: some vinegar sourness, a bit of barnyardy funk, maybe a hint of leafy hops, and a dark earthy note.

Taste: nutty sour malt, barnyardy funkiness, stoney minerality, and leafy slightly minty hops.

Odd sour and funky notes, but once my palate acclimated, a decent amber ale came through.

12 oz bottle from Decanted. Pours deep copper in colour, with huge frothy white head. Middle of the road ale here. Nothing special. Luckily not flavoured with cooked lobster.

I had this on tap last night. The waitress described it as "like Sam Adams." I’m not a fan of regular Sam Adams so I took a risk banking on her being wrong. And she was! This was a pretty tasty beer for a hot night eating a tremendous amount of lobster. Good simple flavor. Nothing crazy going on here.

Bottle thanks to Ryan from Steve. Nothing special here. Just an slightly below average amber or red ale. Not much character. Though I was drinking the ass end of the beer for my sample. Still I won’t seek this out again.

Bottle from Half Time. Pours ruddy dark amber with a creamy/fizzy beige head. Aroma is mostly sweet roast caramel. Med body. Thinning as carb leaves. Not getting much of anything except roasted malt. Granted there’s something else here cause it’s not all that sweet - but whatever hop it is, is more earthy than fruity. Bitter enough to be drinkable.

A very nice looking amber with red highlights and a nice white head. The aroma is malt and bread. The flavor is malty sweet balanced with a bit of bitterness. Slightly thin feel. Nice after taste. Worth a try.