Blue Point Summer Ale

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Patchogue, New York USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Appearance: clear honey gold, one-finger white head, substantial lacing. Aroma: toasted wheat bread with honey butter, lemon zest and some spices. Taste: as the aroma indicates, with good grainy/bready notes, citrus, and a little hoppy spice. Finish: lingering sweet notes of wheat toast. Notes: Seemed like a great summer drinking session beer to me. I quite liked the flavors. Similar to (but with less citrus and hops than) the Great Lakes Oberon.

Aroma is very fruity, yeast. Taste is citrus, lemon zest, wheat, bread, banana. Very light. Not sure there’s alcohol in here.

Appearance is a small white head with clear amber. Aroma is a sweet malt, but not strong. Taste is a sweet lemon malt. Overall it could have more character.

A craft brew that tastes like a watery domestic light beer. Devoid of any noticeable flavor that one would otherwise associate with a sturdy brewer like Blue Point.

12 oz bottle from Decanted. Pours amber in colour, with moderate white frothy head. Aroma and taste are mild sweet malt, with some citrusy hints. Nice and refreshing for summer drinking!

12oz bottle pours gold / copper with white head. The aroma offers up mild puffs of floral hops and spicy hops with a slick smelling sugary maltiness off in the background. I think I also get sugar dusty marshmallows too. The taste is a mix of bad tasting sugary sweet floral hops and more pleasing notes of grainy malts and spicy hops. Overall the sweetness of this one out paces the more interesting fresh malty and hoppy notes.

Pours a warm yellow-orange color with a thin cream-colored head. The aroma features a faint combination of light, lemony wheat characteristics and a slight citric tartness. The flavor is likewise light, with a mild fruitiness that seems like some combination of banana and orange. The texture is light and fizzy, which works with the mild flavors. Overall, this one is a pleasant, easy beer that is appropriate for the heat of summer, but there is nothing that stands out among other mild summer offerings.

Clear pale yellow pour. Oily mouth feel. The beer doesn’t taste bad, it just doesn’t have any flavor at all.