Camp Wannamango Pale Ale: 3.5 – This tastes like mango if it was mixed with cereal. If that sounds sort of odd, not really great – well that’s because it is. It’s not an overall bad pale ale, but there’s really a missing component here of some bitterness or maybe a bit of lemon to add a nice sharpness to the flavor instead of having it seem sort of – soggy.
Price Average: $16.50 for mixed 12 pack cans
Website:https://www.harpoonbrewery.com/
Whalers Dry Hopped American Pale Ale: 5.0 – It’s not super bitter, but certainly hoppy and citrusy. Overall it’s an okay beer, but nothing worth writing much more about.
Price Average: $11 for 6-pack cans
Website: https://whalers.com/
Brooklyn Summer: 2.5 – It may be the dead of winter but that’s just not a good summer ale. Not sure where the concept of it being sunny is, but there’s just some critical aspects that make this less a nice bright citrusy pale ale and more something that tastes vaguely like what a wet sock would taste like.
Price Average: $20 for mixed 12-pack
Website: https://brooklynbrewery.com/
Country: 6.5 – It’s a nice pale ale with a fair amount of flavor and hops going on. It really helps make it unlike other blander pales. An overall just good beer.
Price Average: $16 for 12-pack
DDH Light Speed: 6.0 – That bit of citrus really helps a lot here because this is one hoppy bastard. It thankfully leaves with an aftertaste of said orange citrus in your nostrils, but ther overall bitterness from the double dry hopping is a step too far from it being great.
Price Average: $14 for 4-pack cans
Website: https://www.tgbrews.com/
Dragons & YumYums: 6.5 – A few things to note before reviewing. Yes that collab is with the band, and this is a pale ale brewed with a combination of dragon fruit, yumberry, passionfruit, pear juice, and black carrot juice. Which coupled with the art implies that a lot is going on; however, and this is critical – this is NOT a sour.
There is a whiff of bitter, but overall it’s just over the top tropical. With that combo of ingredients and the color of the beer you’d expect it, but it’s truly a sour w/o the sour and just a nice pale ale stuffed with tropical fruit. It’s complex and delicious, and has a theme song?
Price Average: $14 for 6-pack
Website: https://www.dogfish.com/
A Tiny Beautiful Something: 6.0 – It was slightly worrying given Maine brewing companies proclivity for hoppier beers.However while this is as usual for them on the hoppier side for a pale ale it’s not a step too far, but is close to an APA. Given that it’s a mostly standard and forgettable beer.
Price Average: $9
Website: https://www.mainebeercompany.com/
Fort Point Pale Ale: 6.0 – It’s a hoppy american pale, but thankfully the mango, peach and some sort of citrus don’t make it sugary but add a filling sort of flavor to the rest of beer. It’s enjoyable, and while there is certainly a decent amount going on it’s abrupt not lingering very long.
Price Average: $9 draft
Website: http://www.trilliumbrewing.com/
Pub Style Pale Ale: 5.0 – It’s a little sweet and nutty, but otherwise fits the idea of a more ‘pub style’ beer you’d expect to get in a British pub, even if it’s not really a ‘pale ale’. As for a typical Maine beer it’s certainly easy to see this more with some hearty winter grub than seafood, but overall it’s a passable beer.
Price Average: $3
Website: https://grittys.com/
Baroque Belgique Pale Ale: 3.0 – The side of the bottle says to open like a champagne bottle, what it really means is that as soon as that wire cap is loose, duck + cover. If that wasn’t an indication of the head be warned it’s a big dome, literally spent the first 10 minutes to get a glass, and you do have to wait because that head is bitter. The beer itself is very hoppy, a bit bitter, and you only get a twinge of that brettsour at the very tail end. Overall this is a miss.
Price Average: $13
Website: https://www.greenflashbrew.com/