Shipyard Applehead Ale
Shipyard Applehead is a crisp, refreshing wheat ale with a delightful apple aroma and subtle cinnamon flavor. This beer is available in 6-packs, 12-packs and on draft.
“We asked Pumpkinhead fans what other flavors would they like to see and their answer was apple,” said director of sales and marketing, Bruce Forsley. “We listened to what our fans asked for and created Shipyard Applehead. Master brewer Alan Pugsley has combined the subtle sweetness of cinnamon and apple with a clean, refreshing wheat ale to create a whole new beer experience.”
“We asked Pumpkinhead fans what other flavors would they like to see and their answer was apple,” said director of sales and marketing, Bruce Forsley. “We listened to what our fans asked for and created Shipyard Applehead. Master brewer Alan Pugsley has combined the subtle sweetness of cinnamon and apple with a clean, refreshing wheat ale to create a whole new beer experience.”
2.9
214 reviews
Portland, United States
Community reviews
Pours a light yellow with a thin white head. Smelled like Apple cider. The taste was a light apple flavor with some cinnamon in the background. Overall it wasn’t too bad.
Apples. That’s it. That’s the rating. Apples. Tastes like apples. Smells like apples. Golden color, thin, disappearing white head. Medium in body. Good, if you like apples. Very sweet. Couldn’t really discern the cereal grains underneath. Just apples.
Drank from bottle. A light but medium bodied beer. Strong apple flavor and aroma. Not the best but enjoyable, makes a better late summer, early fall beer. Right before pumpkin beer season.
[Bottle] Deep golden color with a fizzy and quickly receding head. Nose is of apple juice, cinnamon and thin wheat malts. Crisp mulled spices mix with a thin apple and malt backbone. Flavors trail off to a nondescript sweet finish. Light in body. Higher than expected carbonation levels. Tasting notes from 2/2012.
Bottle. Poured clear orange copper with an average frothy white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate sweet apple spice aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium smooth sweet spice flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met.
Bottle 0.335l at Janoinen Lohi, Helsinki. Originally rated 22052012. Colour is cloudy orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, apples, apple pie, cinnamon and malts.
A cider like light orange pour. Has an apple aroma. Taste is mostly apple, but has a nice cinnamon and oaky flavor that gives it some body.
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance had a slight golden yellow colored body with a small white head that lasts barely three seconds.
The smell had Granny Smith apples, cinnamon with a light wheat.
The taste took the previously mentioned flavors combine with some malts to make a decent combination.
On the palate, it sat about a light, sessionable, crisp, light harshness on the tongue, apple aftertaste and finish.
Overall, this is the apple version of Shipyard’s "Pumpkinhead." Even though it is a bit like an "apple pie," it is easy to drink.
12oz bottle from Drum Hill Liquor, Chelmsford, MA. A cidery amber pour with a ring of white head; aroma of apple and cinnamon; the cinnamon dominates the taste - I’m not usually a big fan, but this kind of grew on me; the finish is dry and cidery with more cinnamon. I assume there is some wheat ale in there somewhere, but it’s not very apparent.
12oz bottle. It pours nice, looks nice, keeps a decent head........but I detected no apple on the nose and even less in the taste. There is a small bit of cinnamon though. Not a bad wheat beer, apple? Nah.
Bottle, screw-top. Nose is wheaten with yuletide cinnamon/gingerbread and fruitcake spicing, apple. Pours clear golden with a soapy beige head. Ginger and cinnamon sprinkled onto applecake in the mouth, a nice touch of cider, crisp and dry with a medium-full body and a bit of a bready finish. This really is a holiday ale to me, very seasonal, harvest fading into winter, but I like the blend and there’s enough balance (in combination with cloy-aversion) to make me want to know back a few. Well done!
Bottle. Pours a lager looking deep cider color with a weird backbone and after taste that makes it more of a strange spiced beer then a fruit one/..interesting
Terrible. Wheat, cinnamon, apple. Not what I am looking for when I want a beer. The cinnamon comes on strong at the end.
Draft. Pours murky orange with thin white head that lingers. Medium carbonation over sweet wheat aroma. Sweet apple like flavor with wheat beer tones. I don't like wheat beer and this is no exception.
Bottle @ home via Dr. Shithead courtesy wave. Would pete. Pours a very hazy dull dark orange appearance with a cream colored head. Really heavy cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, holiday spice, apple/pear aroma. Mostly just tastes like a goddamn 7-11 apple fritter. Lightly tart. Not super hard to chug but not particularly delicious either. Not a wave.
A: Clear Golden Straw/Amber Hue, Passes All Light, Very Mild White Head Ring, No Lacing
S: Cinnamon, Crisp Green Apples
T: Green Apples, Mild Cinnamon
M: Poorly Carbonated, Light Bodied, Crisp, Clean
Overall, this beer is as advertised which is an apple beer. It definitely has the taste of a beer as opposed to being a cider. Its good but nothing impressive, as advertised. The cinnamon wasnt overpowering thankfully and very drinkable.
The measure against which every apple beer should be measured is Ephemere and this one just doesn’t stack up. Overly sweet, sticky, lacking the dry tartness that reminds you of beer rather than cider.
Pours a clear solar yellow with a thick but effervescent off-white head - looks more like a cider than a beer. Aroma reinforces the cider perception, having a strong apple note and some cinnamon as well, just a hint of malt. Smells like a fresh apple pie. Flavor, though, is a little more beer-like; now the wheaty malt comes through, though the main flavor is still apple, and a cinnamon tone accompanies them. Texture is smooth and firm but lacks fizz. Still, go ahead and pick one to enjoy on a nice crisp fall day.
(bottle - 12 oz) Slightly cloudy gold pour with a thin white head. Very light on the apple aroma but has a nice touch of cinnamon. Flavor starts off with a nice and smooth cinnamon flavor and very light apples that really come through at the end. Crisp clean finish.
Bottle, rated from backlog. Golden with white head. Aroma and taste are strong; apples, cinnamon, sugar and malt.
Bottle. Best enjoyed before: 09/13. A hazy amber pour with a skim of a beige head. Apple pie filling / caramel apples / apple cider aroma - delicious! Goes down very thin and crisp. Caramel and apples upfront taste-wise. Cinnamon follows. A grainy finish. Pretty straightforward and one-dimensional. A very enjoyable fruit beer.
On tap at Millers Alehouse. Pours a clear gold with small white head. The aroma is spice and apple. Thin mouthfeel with a light watery cinnamon and spice. Not much going on with this one.
WOW... I have never been a fan of apple-style beers... Until Now!! Not something you can drink a lot of, because its sweet, however it reminds me of cinnamon applesauce! Enjoyed!
(Bottle) Orangey amber colour with brief, frothy, off-white head. Fruity nose with cinnamon, red apples, brown sugar, bread and hints of citrus peel. Fruity taste with notes of apples, cinnamon, wheat, white bread, honey, custard and hints of citrus peel. Low bitterness. Medium body, with a balanced sweetness. Quite interesting and refreshing but hardly exciting.
Strong cinnamon taste and flavor. Smooth. Would be great as a shooter with ice cream after a turkey. Great execution, just not something I’d love to drink a ton of.
Apple nutmeg beer, go figure. Surprised I liked it as much as I did. The smell and taste are strong and similarly, of apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, hint of brown sugar. Good fall/winter beer. Happy to have 1 or 2 of these in a session any more would be flavor overload.
Bottle purchased at Vicker’s Liquors. Clear gold pour with a thick white head. Aroma of sweet malt, apple and light spice. Cinnamon and apple flavor with some maltiness before a semi-dry, thin finish.
Best part of this one is when you first get drink it you get the first rush of apple and cinnammon then NOTHING may as well be flavored water not bitter like cider warmer it gets worse it gets Shipyard I should have known better perhaps apple is a hard flavor to get in a beer Redds sucked have to try the shock top one.
The aroma is spicy and sweet with sour apple candy. The appearance is golden with a thin head. The taste is like the aroma. The palate is watery. Overall sessionable enough.
the beer itself is weak and light, but the apple are quite crisp with a touch of cinnamon. no hops at all and the malt and palate is thin.