Peak Organic Simcoe Spring Ale

Peak Organic Brewing Company
Brewed at Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle. Very flavorful pale ale -- lots of hop pine and floral. Clear, golden, and lots of carbonation. Overall very good.

Coppery gold in color with a thin skim of white bubbles. Aroma carries the same green smell like a bag of hop pellets with spritzy citrus and pine notes and even a bit of lemongrass. Taste is like a weaker infused tea version of the aroma, which carries the herbal, grassy dry-hop components. It’s not unpleasant , just conspicuously dry-hopped. $2/12oz

Aromas of pine, flowers, vanilla, butter cream, citrus fruit, nuts, peach, and subtle apple. Orange-bronze with a mostly lasting, khaki head. Dry with a refreshingly snappy bitterness. Light-medium bodied with lively carbonation, and finishes with chai-like and floral tones.

On tap at Great Lost Bear Portland, Maine. Nice floral grassy spices of hop aroma and taste. Very balanced and easy going brew. dark gold creamy head. Overall pleasent on palate.

Tap. Golden with foamy cream lead and decent lacing. Smells piney/grapefruity. Light bitter flavor, with a hint of grain, and a hint of butteriness. Not quite crisp, moderately carbonated, light dry finish.

Associated Supermarket, Bushwick sixer ($11): Pours a copper color with a white head. Aroma is pine with some nondescript citrus bordering on lemon, along with pale malts. Taste is bitter simcoe throughout without much else happening. The maltiness is pretty lame. Nice pine, but without anything to back it up, this is just not interesting. Minimal aftertaste. Medium-light body. Meh.

Draught at Stags Head NYC. Pours slightly hazy orage/gold/apricot in color with a big white head. The aroma was an intense citrus hop smell, really nice. There is an overload of grapefruit in the aroma as well as the taste, which I love. Incredibley balanced with a piney citrus finish. really comples and smooth finishing. A great pale ale.

Cask at ACAT. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of grassy hops with a bit of pine, a touch of onion and a grain back. Flavor starts with light grain and becomes grassy with a bit of pine and resin in the finish.

Previous notes...pours light honey amber with a crisp white head. The aroma is that of a floral spring presence. The flavor brings light hoppiness on a crispy refreshing body.

12oz bottle in a sampler glass. Pours amber with an off-white head. Aroma of citrusy and piney hops plus some caramel and pale malts. Flavor the same with a good amount of hope for the style. Average texture. A nice hoppy pale ale.