Shorts Key Lime Pie

Brewed by Shorts Brewing Co.
Style: Fruit Beer
Bellaire, Michigan USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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(Draught) Pours a cloudy amber body with a spare white head. Aroma of frozen key lime pie, caramel, cream cheese, and graham cracker. Flavor of caramel, pie crust, bread, light key lime, loads of sugar, and graham cracker. Sugary and unbalanced. Ingredents are conflicting with each other.

Date: January 08, 2011
Mode: Draft
Source: The Porter, Atlanta
Appearance: cloudy burnt orange, creamy beige head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet malt aroma with a touch of graham cracker, hint of tart lime, light musty funk
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, musty funk up front, key lime comes in first as a sweetness before turning tart, light bready graham cracter
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *** /4

Draft. Hazy amber body, small off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, lime, graham cracker(!). Taste is moderately sweet, lime, sugar, some lactose. Light-medium body.

26th November 2010
Brewed with Marshmallow, lactose, lime ans Graham Crackers. Hazy amber beer, tiny white head. Crispy palate. Pleasant tangy lime. Minerals. Offset by lactose sweetness and a hint of biscuits! A pretty much perfectly flavoured novelty beer! Love Joe Short’s creativity!

Bottle from ericandersnavy. Pours hazy copper with a fine, foamy off-white head. Smells bready with just a hint of citrus/sour. Med body. The flavor is passing different. I think I get the graham cracker, and the sweet could be marshmallow. There’s a touch of lime. Some brewers just have too much fun.

Draft sample at MBG 2010 Winterfest. Poured hazy reddish brown color with an average fizzy white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate to heavy complex lime aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture and soft carbonation. Heavy creamy lime flavor with a medium to heavy sour lime finish of long duration. Refreshing brew that is a standout.

Growler…Cloudy amber ale with a small, fizzy, white head. The nose is nutty and lightly fruity with malty notes of caramel and praline – just a touch medicinal. Medium-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and gentle carbonation. The flavor is cloyingly sweet and sugary; moderately tangy and fruity with a modest caramel component. Did I mention sweet and sugary? Lord, why? Sweet, mildly tangy finish with just a trace of key lime.

12oz bottle. Poured a medium, slightly hazy, amber color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of (would I have picked this out without the name?) lime, cookies, some earthiness, and bready. Tastes of limes, lemon sour candy, and cookie dough. The tastes were ’different’ but I kinda liked it.

Bottle poured a hazy orange amber with a lingering ring of amber foam. Aromas of lime, cookie and some lactic notes, hope it tastes better than it smells. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry lightly tart finish. Flavors of lime, and light cookie with a crisp dry lightly tart finish.

Bottle shared by GT2. Pours clear amber with a medium, fizzy white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (grain, cereal), no hops, key lime and dust notes. Flavor is key lime, biscuit malt, and general funk. Light body, low warmth, medium carbonation with a dry finish.