Review - Atlantic Brewing Company's Bar Harbor Real Ale
"A good, clean nutbrown ale with a malty body. This is our most popular ale due to its smooth and malty flavor.
We use a mixture of pale, crystal and black malts in this one, and our primary hop is Target, though we also add some Whitbread Goldings Variation as well.
The Real Ale is best fresh, so fresh in fact, that it's great right out of the bright tank." -- Atlantic Brewing Company
This ale pours a dark amber color with a small, light-brown frothy head. Fair lacing behind a mostly-diminishing head. Hazy, cloudy body. Aroma is of light, light bread malts and light doughy yeast. Initial flavor is lightly sweet, with a nutty taste, finishing lightly bitter with a smoky finish. Light on the palate, it leaves a watery texture with soft carbonation.
Reviewer's notes: "Looks like a nutty brown, fizzles out at the end, initially a sharp taste due to carbonation followed by a sweet taste then a little bitterness of toasted malts"
Reviewed on July 20th, 2006.
| Type: | Brown Ale |
| ABV: | 5.2% |
| Source: | 12 oz. Bottle |
| Score: | 17/30 |
