Brooklyn Summer Ale

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Brooklyn, New York USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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On tap at Lazy Boy. Vegetal nose, olives. Decent malt in the flavor, veggie hops are a little weird but a nice chocolatiness. Very drinkable.

This one grew on me. I din’t like it at first. I gave it a day and retired it at cellar temperature. You can really get a sense of the cascades, but especially the amarillo hops. Not a lot of malt. Even though it is a summer ale, I think it could use a little more malt backbone. The malt character doesn’t seem to indicate even a 4.5% avb.

clear gold with large fluffy white head. moderately hoppy aroma with notes of grainy malt. palate is very light, crisp, and refreshing. nicely hopped flavor. extremely drinkable and made with quality.

2007 bottle consumed on 5/26/07
Soft peachy-tangerine-toned body is topped by a small, but fairly well-retained white head. Plentiful carbonaton rising in the liquid. Slight lacing.
A plasticy yeast is what I find first and foremost in the nose. It’s very dry and perhaps I’m just mistaking this for wheat (though I see that there is no wheat in this, so I guess not). Fortunately a very charming, though somewhat mild hoppiness arises, full of tangerines, lemons and light splashes of melon. Dry, straw-like maltiness has touches of hay and honey, with a fairly classic barleyish flavor (just straight up two-row malt flavor). The dryness and definite crispness on the end are big pluses here.
Very light bodied, well-attenuated and with a lingering hop bitterness that further emboldens the refreshingness, the beer is well carbonated and has lots of graininess to it. Pinches of honey and light breadiness can be found, but the carbonatoin keeps the body sparse and the hops poignant. Refreshing and drinkable, if nothing unusual.

Pours golden with a fully receding white head. Aroma of citrus, wheat,. Taste is sweet with notes of honey and wheat. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, slightly sticky with moderate carbonation. Not as ’Summery’ as other Summer Ales I’ve tried.

Bottle: Quite the creamy head. Deep and robust aroma, crispy citric bite to it. Somewhat surprisingly hearty character. Usually brewers make "summer beers" as an excuse to make watery and flavorless yellow beers for the non beer-drinking crowd. This is the opposite ... fully flavored, richly malty, yet with a nice bready, hoppy, citrusy flourish. Nice. (#2975, 6/12/2007)

Bottle. Pours frosty gold, thin white head. Aroma is caramel, vanilla, hops, coriander. Flavor is wheat, coriander, hops. This is more like an American wheat than a "golden ale/blond ale."

Bottled - .. Pours a light clean yellow .. Nose is light grassy hops... Taste is a light hoppiness with hints of wheat comming thru.. nice clean easy drinking summer beer..

12 oz bottle form the bodega.very light blonde coloered ale. mild hops flava .very light and refreshing

This beer pours an amber gold. It smells of grass and honey. It is very refreshing and it tastes sweet, hoppy and fades to wheat. A nice offering for a summer day.