Shipyard Export Ale - Shipyard Brewing Co.

Loki

North Carolina

4/5  rDev +20.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Sampled on draught at the Florida Tap Room.

Served a golden honey color with a faint white head. The lacing was great, leaving an intrical web all around the glass.

Aromas of malt and hops. Very inviting.

The taste is sweet malt then clean hops with a nice spicy finish. One of the best Shipyard Products. Very balanced, even, and clean. Great combination of malt and hops.

Serving type: on-tap

08-24-2003 14:44:21 | More by Loki

Satsuma

Florida

3.25/5  rDev -2.1%

06-16-2013 03:47:04 | More by Satsuma

IchLiebeBier

Virginia

3.5/5  rDev +5.4%

06-15-2013 22:34:23 | More by IchLiebeBier

protton

Florida

2.5/5  rDev -24.7%

06-14-2013 18:38:40 | More by protton

DCH

New York

4/5  rDev +20.5%

06-13-2013 02:40:36 | More by DCH

utopiajane

New York

3.08/5  rDev -7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Pours pale and hazy. Light straw with a head of white foam that fell fast to some decent lace. Nose is floral, apple and lots of pale malt. Very low key. Bread, dough and caramel. Opens up with grass and earth. Citrus in back. Taste is grainy malt like it wants to be an amber with apples on top. Not really balanced. Plenty of cracker and bread. Diacetyl. A touch of hop bitter and oil on the tongue at the end and a small bite from the carbonation. Body is thin and not heavy. Doesn’t finish well because it finishes sweet and the diacetyl leaves bitter. It’s just ok.

Serving type: bottle

06-12-2013 10:25:37 | More by utopiajane

irv2424

Massachusetts

2.5/5  rDev -24.7%

06-11-2013 03:47:15 | More by irv2424

drewface

Germany

3.5/5  rDev +5.4%

06-06-2013 11:24:25 | More by drewface

Barton

Maine

3.5/5  rDev +5.4%

06-06-2013 00:35:58 | More by Barton

m_p_snyder

Ohio

3/5  rDev -9.6%

06-05-2013 18:53:40 | More by m_p_snyder

BeeGinner

Rhode Island

3/5  rDev -9.6%

05-31-2013 23:01:35 | More by BeeGinner

broob

Mississippi

2.25/5  rDev -32.2%

05-31-2013 22:55:32 | More by broob

chudson1992

Massachusetts

3.5/5  rDev +5.4%

05-26-2013 21:51:57 | More by chudson1992

NHSTEVE

New Hampshire

3.25/5  rDev -2.1%

05-25-2013 00:01:44 | More by NHSTEVE

InspectorBob

New Jersey

3.25/5  rDev -2.1%

05-22-2013 16:14:45 | More by InspectorBob

johntfox

Florida

3.5/5  rDev +5.4%

05-21-2013 18:05:22 | More by johntfox

HiWire

Florida

3.5/5  rDev +5.4%

05-15-2013 07:30:47 | More by HiWire

jondeelee

Massachusetts

3.49/5  rDev +5.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Export Ale opens to a grainy nose, full of wet wheat, Grape Nuts cereal, whole wheat bread dough, biscuit, hay, and cracker. Toasted nuts and toast crust add light layers of baked complexity. A good measure of sugar helps offset the breads, most of it brown, but there are some nice fruit esters as well, including apricot, orange, and berry. Shades of grapefruit and pine from the hops add touches of citrusy bitterness, further offsetting the grains. As a whole, the nose is nice, being decently balanced, aromatic, and featuring a pleasant set of fruits and sugars to offset the breads, the nose suffering mainly from being light, but more importantly, somewhat plain, offering little in terms of a “wow factor,” and relying instead on simply presenting decent aromas in decent quantities.

On the tongue, the beer has a noticeably grainy flavor profile, with hay, Grape Nuts cereal, toasted bread, wet wheat, biscuit, toasted nut, and wheat bread making up the majority of the flavors. The brown sugars and fruit esters – again: apricot, orange, berry – do help offset this somewhat, as do grapefruit and pine from the hops. In subsequent sips much of the nuance is lost, the flavors simply too weak to stand up to repetition, and the beer becomes even more heavily dominated by wet wheat, toast crust, and hay. The aftertaste is a continuation of the main mouthful, lingering for a decent while. Mouthfeel is medium-light, and carbonation is medium.

Overall, this is certainly good summer fare, being light and crisp, but largely suffering from a lack of sugars to help counter the heavy grain flavors.

Serving type: bottle

05-14-2013 15:55:40 | More by jondeelee

aLenwell

Florida

2.75/5  rDev -17.2%

05-14-2013 00:40:38 | More by aLenwell

jazzyjeff13

United Kingdom (England)

3.1/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

A 355ml bottle with a BB of June 2013. Picked up recently from Booths.

Poured into a straight pint glass. A bright golden-amber hue with faint translucence and good carbonation. Yields a large head of creamy white foam that lasts for a few minutes before reducing to a surface layer. Some lacing. Aroma of light caramel malt with hints of earthy yeast and stewed hops. A faint sweetness in the background. Meh.

Tastes of light caramel malt with a dry finish. Notes of caramel, subtle grain, earthy yeast and stewed hops. Well-attenuated, though there is a faint malty sweetness in the background along with a hint of cardboard. A very mild bitterness upon swallowing. Mouthfeel is smooth, tingly and dry, with pleasant carbonation and good body. Rather astringent, with an aftertaste of stewed leaves, earthy yeast and weak malt.

Pretty dull. Nothing technically wrong - it seems well crafted but boring. Like a US version of John Smiths. Looks good, but the aroma and flavour don't hold your interest. Decent body though rather too dry. With so many great beers out there, this isn't really worth the trouble. Give it a miss.

Serving type: bottle

05-13-2013 22:31:16 | More by jazzyjeff13

DuffDaddy

Florida

3.75/5  rDev +13%

05-13-2013 20:07:33 | More by DuffDaddy

rderedin

Maine

3.25/5  rDev -2.1%

05-11-2013 20:18:03 | More by rderedin

ToddHolder

Illinois

3/5  rDev -9.6%

05-11-2013 01:55:52 | More by ToddHolder

ajtorres311

Florida

2.5/5  rDev -24.7%

05-10-2013 16:35:19 | More by ajtorres311

Thedrizzle

Florida

3/5  rDev -9.6%

05-10-2013 01:17:36 | More by Thedrizzle