Fish On! Summer Ale
Lang Creek Brewery

Hazy, pale amber with a medium, offwhite, foamy head that stuck around a while and left some heavy lacing. Smell nice, if not overly interesting. Ripe fruit (apples?) and bready malt with some well balanced floral hops. The taste is a toned down version of the smell, and this one is definitely more interesting to the nose than to the tongue. Feels medium bodied, pretty smooth, with some carbonated prickles. Nice enough, enjoyable, easy-drinking beer. However, it's a big full bodied to be a "Summer Brew" in my opinion. A bit heavy to have more than one on a really hot day. Maybe it's more of an autumn brew? Overall a nice beer, not overly exciting, but an interesting change of pace. I might have it again.

12oz bottle purchased at Bottles in Millwood for $1.69. Best by September, according to the label, where the beer is described as a "summer ale." The colorful label art features a pilot and would-be fisherman standing on a pontoon of his floatplane -presumably anchored on a lake somewhere - who is desperately trying to reel in a fish with one arm while with the other he tries to fish his beer out of the water with a net. Overhead, as always, the Lang Creek Ford Tri-Motor cruises serenely overhead in black and white.

Poured a dark gold color with an inch of white foam that steadily dropped, leaving a sparse, sticky webbing, though the head was easily re-agitated to life.

Not a terribly sophisticated nose, but it smelled good. Bright, floral hops and biscuity malts, plus a very slight lemony scent.

The taste was a bit more dull than the nose. Bland, herbal hop notes outweigh mild, bready malts, with the already-noted lemon present as a flavor deep in the background. Also a mineral-ish taste is present, though not to an intolerable degree.

Medium bodied, with a mouthfeel that seemed a little too thick for something being marketed as a summer beer. Carbonation seemed low for the goal in mind indicated by the labeling. Lighter in body, with a more crisp, efervescent mouthfeel, and this would be substantially improved.

Drinkable as a one timer, but this isn't crisp enough or interesting-tasting enough for me to use it as a summer BBQ or "lawnmower" beer, an overcrowded field as it is.