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Granite Brewery Summer Ale

Percentile
33
overall
Brewed by Granite Brewery (Toronto)
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale

Toronto, Canada

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unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
382.89/5.02.87/5.0Summer4%46.5English pint, Shaker
Commercial Description:
A full bodied, well hopped brew, light in color and alcohol content. Available in the Summer.
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 JoeMcPhee (5000), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/514/20
Sep 15, 2006  
Organic brew at Ginger’s Tavern in Halifax. Crystal clear golden beer toped with a thick fine laced head. Beautiful sweet fruity nose, Challenger hop brightness, some juicy fruit and cherry notes over a lean earthy British malt bill. Sweet flavour, lightly minerally with cherry and soft grapey sweetness. Lean bodied, but with enough malt to balance the sweet/earthy hops. Great balance. A very sessionable pint. I think I’ll have another.


 Dickinsonbeer (3449), Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Jul 25, 2009  
Tap at Toronto. Beer was actually pretty nice and easy drinking. Pours a very light blonde with a foamy white head. Aroma is fresh floral hops, light citrus hint, lemony, and clean. Flavor is crackery, toasty, light breadiness, and floral fresh hops, light grassiness, but clean and crisp. Easy drinking.


 rudolf (1758), Buffalo, New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
May 30, 2006  
Volo Cask Days. Nose has lemon, lager kinda hops, somewhat fruity. Kind of juicy-fruit esque. Flavor is a bit of bready malt, lemon, honey, slightly watery finish.


 daboskabouter (1470), Fergus, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Aug 26, 2001  
Good for a light ale.


 GregClow (2496), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Jun 11, 2004  
Light-golden colour, very clear. (Earlier ratings refer to it as being hazy, so I assume that it used to be unfiltered?) Fresh citric hops in the aroma. Mild, fruity flavour with a nice hop finish. A good refresher.


 MrManning (1644), London, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
May 15, 2004  
Light gold in colour, with body supporting little to no head, even after swirling the glass a bit. A citrus/candy aroma mixed with hops was a nice suprise. Subtle fruit taste with some hop bitterness. The aftertaste is mildly bitter with a sort of fuzzy feeling left in the throat. A decent summer ale. I’d like to have this again.


 JAF737300 (792), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/103/513/20
Oct 28, 2007  
full for a summer beer, pours golden with decent hops on the nose and the finish. Not mind boggling but solid.


 Spab (264), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Jun 20, 2009  
Draught at brewpub in Toronto. Pours a clear pale gold with small white head, modest lacing. Aroma is mostly floral with some fruitishness and grass. Flavour is fruity and grassy with floral hops giving it a reasonable bitter finish. Light body. Pretty decent beer for a warm summer’s day.



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