Belfast Bay Lobster Ale

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

Dark red-amber with fair, creamy tan head / Simple, sweet. some rancid-sour malt nose / Light body, somewhat sweet, malty with fair hoppy finish / Sweet flavors of sour malt, cooked fruit, toasted grain and burnt sugar / Another mediocre Shipyard brew. Agree with daknole, below. Paired with lobster? Ha ha.

Bottle consumed while shopping in Boothbay Maine. Moderate coppper in glass. thin head dissipates instantaneously. Thin, wormy lacing rings the glass and soon dropps to oblivion. The boring and flatline body does little to quench my thirst. A metallic tang finish. Blah

Bottled. I never knew there was a market for a beer that smelled/tasted like....uh..lobster, but I guess there is. I swear to god my bottle tasted exactly like lobster. Oh yeah it was a rather boring ale after that..

Pours reddish amber and has notes of sweet corn syrup and malt. Sweet, light and tasty is a good way to describe the flavor. Smooth but couldn’t drink too many.

12 oz. brown screwtop bottle whose lable would seem to indicate that it is among the last to have been brewed by the Belfast Bay company as opposed to Shipyard...


Surprisingly dark red, almost brown in color with about a finger of off-white head. Smells malty with a hint of hop bitterness. Roasty malt flavor, maybe a hint of skunk unfortunately. Medium to full bodied. Tasty, but it would be better if it didn’t have just that hint of skunk quality to it. It gets better as the skunkiness dissipates somewhat. A pretty decent ale, I’d say. Too bad Shipyard brews it now, only because the character of the ale will probably change a little.

12 oz bottle. Pours a deep brown/red color with a thin white head. Nose is mild hops & grains. Maybe a little fruit. Palate is hearty with average carbonation. Flavor is mostly malts with some floral hop flavor. Nothing special, but not bad either.

Amber pour with a fizzy offwhite head. Aroma is very toasted malt and bitter hops. Flavor is Toffee, more toasted malt, some light fruitiness and bitter hops at the finish which impart some nice dryness to the ale. Much nicer as it warms, very mild and drinkable.

From the 12 fl. oz. bottle with an August ’10 expiration date. It pours copper with ruby highlights and a hefty, frothy off-white head. Strong fruity and malt aroma. Creamy texture on the tongue. The taste is of sweet malts with a nice American hops follow up. It ended on the dry side.