Front Porch Swing
Sapwood Cellars Brewery
- From:
- Sapwood Cellars Brewery
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.11 | pDev: 6.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 19, 2025
- Added:
- May 11, 2024
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Pale Ale with Peach Tea
This beer was inspired by the feeling of sitting on a front porch swing in summer, sipping peach-flavored ice tea. We leaned into the underlying peach and apricot aromatics of the hops (Vista and Southern Cross) with a delicate addition of peach-flavored tea. The tea itself adds herbal notes helping to balance the fruity aromatics. The finish balances the sweetness of the pale malt, juiciness of the hops, and richness of the tea leaves.
This beer was inspired by the feeling of sitting on a front porch swing in summer, sipping peach-flavored ice tea. We leaned into the underlying peach and apricot aromatics of the hops (Vista and Southern Cross) with a delicate addition of peach-flavored tea. The tea itself adds herbal notes helping to balance the fruity aromatics. The finish balances the sweetness of the pale malt, juiciness of the hops, and richness of the tea leaves.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by running3dogs from Maryland
4.14/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.14/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Standard haze, but with good head retention and excellent lace. Fresh herbal, grassy aroma. Tea dominates the palate and blends well with hops, creating a very distinctive, hoppy kind of flavor. Sample is 74 days old and the peach flavor seems to have faded quite a bit. So maybe I'm missing out on the full experience. Still a very clean and distinctively flavored beer, probably the best tea-flavored beer I've ever tried.
Aug 19, 2025
Reviewed by Spankyrightus from Maryland
3.79/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
On draught at the brewery. Taste is exactly as the description states. A decent Pale Ale with some peach and tea flavors.
Not bad, just not my thing.
I might try it again and update the review if it strikes my differently next time.
Aug 13, 2025Not bad, just not my thing.
I might try it again and update the review if it strikes my differently next time.
Reviewed by BJB13 from Maryland
4.39/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.39/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
16 ounce can poured into a Spiegelau wheat beer glass.
CANNED ON 4/17/24
L: Hazy pale straw, one inch head, creamy white foam has a yellow tinge, decent retention and lacing.
S: Fruity hop nose, stone fruit aromas with apricot and peach standing out over hints of pulpy citrus.
T: Taste is balanced with medium sweetness and moderate hop bitterness, it opens with sweet apricot and subtle peach flavors with more mango-like stone fruit and flour-like pale malt flavors taking control of the second half of the pour.
F: High carbonation giving a refreshing crispness that lightens the medium weight creamy body.
O: The peach tea addition is a subtle difference over Sapwood’s standard variety of hazy APA, and seems to work.
May 22, 2024CANNED ON 4/17/24
L: Hazy pale straw, one inch head, creamy white foam has a yellow tinge, decent retention and lacing.
S: Fruity hop nose, stone fruit aromas with apricot and peach standing out over hints of pulpy citrus.
T: Taste is balanced with medium sweetness and moderate hop bitterness, it opens with sweet apricot and subtle peach flavors with more mango-like stone fruit and flour-like pale malt flavors taking control of the second half of the pour.
F: High carbonation giving a refreshing crispness that lightens the medium weight creamy body.
O: The peach tea addition is a subtle difference over Sapwood’s standard variety of hazy APA, and seems to work.
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