Shipyard Export Ale

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

(bottle). From Four Points Sheridan Norwood Mass. Clear golden complexion. Flavors are balanced sour with skunk. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Buttery and candylike, but smooth and tasty. Normally I don’t like the butter but it works here.

Bottle. Golden beer with a strong head. The aroma is gently hopped, and the flavour is hopped and mildly toffee roasted with yeasty elements. Overall an average hopped and yeasty bitter like beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Pours a pale, crystal clear gold color with little head. This brew has a buttery smell with floral hints. Pretty good taste with the buttery malts detected in the aroma making a return in the flavor with spicy hop bitterness in the showing up in the end. Tasty brew, could more than a few down in one sitting.

Bottle from Kris Wines, London. Amber pour with a white head. Sweet malt nose and further sweet malts in the flavour. Couldn’t find the hops here. Yawn. Very drab material and best left on the boat this one.

For its style it’s not too bad but neither is it a world-beater. Tasty enough for a session beer, with a pretty decent malt-hop balance, but just a hint more bite than one might prefer or expect. Pours a nice deep golden color and goes down reasonably smooth. You can’t go wrong with this beer, but you could do better.

At table and vine beer tasting, malty body, pretty thick, very light hops, boring and inoffensive as a golden ale should be. Some bubble gum in there.

12oz bottle picked up at The Grapevine in Pocattello
Appearance: Clear golden with medium sized white head and some lacing
Aroma: Sweet malts, honey and fruit
Taste; Sweet malts, grassy and honey
Ok, easy drinking