Shipyard Longfellow Winter Ale
This beer is indeed a full-bodied Strong Ale; a Hybrid between a Porter and a Scottish Ale…
This hearty winter warm ale is named in honor of American poet Henry Longfellow.
I remember the black wharves and the ships, and the sea tides tossing free……. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, and the magic of the sea. –“My Lost Youth”
This hearty winter warm ale is named in honor of American poet Henry Longfellow.
I remember the black wharves and the ships, and the sea tides tossing free……. And the beauty and mystery of the ships, and the magic of the sea. –“My Lost Youth”
3.4
262 reviews
Portland, United States
Community reviews
22oz bomber. Opaque beer, dark mahogany--no lacing, medium head fades down to a collar. Aroma is very very awesome, a nice cereal-coffee aroma with a hint of spice. Taste is very good as well--it’s actually a nice blend -- the scottish ale and porter mix well. Palate isn’t awesome, just a bit fizzy and a little too long/strong. Overall, a great winter beer -- tastes stronger than 5.8%
650 ml bottle purchased at my local Market Basket. Deeper ruby color with to much carbonation. Fizzy and lasting. Aroma is caramel malt, light peat and some toasted grain.
Flavor shows toasted malts and grain with a light smoke in the back of the sip. Secondary notes of chocolate and peat. Thin watery body. There is an old saying, " you get what you pay for." That would describe this beer.
12oz bottle (Old Notes)-Pours a dark brown almost black with a decent sized head. Aroma of caramel, coffee, and spice. Taste of the same with a small amount of chocolate coming out. This full bodied brew is well balanced and quite tasty.
Bottle. Pours dark brown with tan head. Nose/taste of toffee, light maple, pine sap and toasted caramel malt. Medium body.
Bottle at Nya Tröls. Left-overs from the holiday-season. I’m not a fan of the winter-seasonals but this was really good.
This is a breakfast beer. Strong coffee at the front with a biscuity backend. Not sure if I would drink this again, but only just started on this one.
Twelve ounce bottle from Beer Of The (Every Other) Month Club. Very dark brown/ruby hue, medium to strong malty aroma with a spicy note, flavor has attractive roasted malt and chocolate character but there’s something artificial or chemical in the flavor, although it recedes as the glass warms. Good beer but could be better.
Great up front. Not over powering. A nice beer for a cold night. Would buy a case in a heart beat.
Bottle. Pours a deep ruby almost black with a thick tan head. Aroma is molasses and also maybe a bit like a merlot for some reason. The aroma is pretty powerful so I was expecting a pretty strong flavor. It does start out with big roasted and chocolate malt taste but is balanced well with hops and isn’t overpowering.
Bottle - Pours dark brown with an average head. Has a coffee taste on first sip but after that it’s a biscuit malty taste. The mouthfeel is thin.
Bottle. Pours deep brown with a beige head. Caramel malts, light nutty notes, and a hint of earthy hops. Not bad.
Bottle. Pours a dark reddish brown with a decent tan head. Aroma of malt, caramel, and spice. Taste is malt, caramel, spice, some chocolate, and some coffee. Nice.
Mahogany red with a light tan frothy head and moderate lace. Aromas of ripe fruit, roasted malt and a touch of butterscotch. Taste is that of roasted, light chocolate and ripe fruit up front, then a slight hop bitterness, more of the butterscotch, a hint of smoke/charcoal and a warming alcohol presence. Full body, lively carbonation, pillowy soft and smooth mouthfees, and caramel and lingering hop bitterness in the finish.
A cola colored body with a tan head that had mild retention. Aroma was mostly caramel malts, there was a slight bread note to it. Some herbal hops. Flavor was similar. Carbonation seemed a little high to me, other wise it was a good beer.
Beer of month club. Pours cola color with white head that quickly disappears. Nose is very malty. Taste is also ver malty, with some black licorice. A chewy beer. Good.
Pours a dense brown with beige head. Malty aroma of dark fruits and toffee.
Flavors of toffee, raisins, and powdered chocolate. FInishes dry and bitter.
This beer has a traditional English character with a malty backbone supporting notes of toffee, dried fruits, and leather. It finishes dry with a mustiness from the English hops that makes the beer well balanced and easy to drink.
Bomber from Knightly in Orlando, FL. Pours dark brown with a slight tan head. Aroma is sort of cola. Flavor is a little chocolate, some light toast/burnt malt, and likely a bi of coffee. Ok, but not strong in flavors.
Bottel @ home, aged 2 years. Pours clear dark red/brown, some lacing from the beige head. Nose is sweet and somewhat vinous. Licorice, herbs, and lots of dark friuts mostly raisins. Restrained chocolate and roasted malt. Quite tiny mouth feel. Taste is sweet, brown sugar like plus citrus-sour and herbal with hints of red berries, chocolate and dates. Dry sour finish.
$6.99 for the 650mL bottle purchased from Top Shelf Brews Friday evening. To oversized snifter, it pours a reddish-tinted dark brown with an off-beige, sudsy head barely even a fingernail in length. Aromas of caramel, tangerine zest, vanilla extract,and alcohol. Tastes weirdly of those little caramel squares with which raisins, and grape juice has been added. Incredibly bizarre. By swallow, it’s hinting at earthy hops and burnt brown sugar. Seriously, what the hell is this? I had low expectations buying the bottle, but this is just too odd to finish. A good 90% of Shipyard’s inventory is crap.
Bomber--once again, one of those beers I have had several times thinking I have rated it, but haven’t! Deep brown color with a good size, off brown head. Aroma of malt, roast caramel and a touch of vanilla, nice! For the taste add the aroma with some sweet chocolate as a based. A little heavy on the finish, but not oily. Produce place
Dark brown of color with a beige head. An aroma of liqurice, malty and soy sauce. A flavor of roasted malt, liqurice, soy sauce and malty.
(Bottle). Aromas of roasted malt, caramel and hops. The taste is slightly spicy with flavors of roasted malt, dried fruit and caramel. In the aftertaste there is a distinct hoppy bitterness.
Smak och doft av humle, malt, torkad frukt, farinsocker, mörk choklad med aromer av nötter och honung. God beska.
Bomber from ABC on Thomasville ($3.99). Dark brown pour with a thin tan head and slight lacing. Aroma is warm brown sugar, dark fruit, roasty malts. Tastes are dark chocolate, brown sugar, honey, nutty, earthy hops. Drinkable enough.
Bottle pour in South Florida. Snifter. Pours a very dark, opaque with an off-white head that is thick at first. Head diminishes quickly to a thin head. Great lacing. Very good looking overall. Aroma is very good with heavy malts, caramel, light smoke and wood. Taste is very malty with hints of coffee (slight bitterness), caramel and oak. I also detect some coconut. Mouth feel is very smooth with a pleasant finish.
Bottle. Pours dark ruby with a medium tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel, chocolate, light smoke, nuts and light fruit. Nice roasted malt flavor with chocolate, light coffee, light smoke, nuts, light fruits and moderately bitter grassy hops. Woody and nice bitter finish. Very good scottish ale.
Bottle, shared with esp0r december 1st 2012. Dark brown body, a bit hazy, creamy light brown head. Aroma of malt, hazelnut, dark fruit. Taste of burned malt, coffee, chocolate and flowery hops. Good but unbalanced. Low carbonation, sherry-like aftertaste.
It pours jet black leaving a one inch foamy lumpy off-white head. The head slowly dies to a centimeter lasting a little longer in my nonic. Minimal lacing is left. The smell is slightly malty and has a dry coffee aroma coming through as the beer warms. The taste is bittersweet through the malts and the dry coffee. The palatre is about a light to medium with lots of harshness coming through at all angles, kinda bad for an English Porter. This is fairly drinkable. Overall, I’m not impressed with this one.
22 oz bottle (2012) served in a Sam Adams lager glass.
Pours deep, dark, clear mahogany with a small and fragile tan head. Decent lacing is left on the glass. [3.75]
The spice level is near perfect and well-balanced. While evident in the nose and obvious up front upon tasting, the spicing slowly fades after the finish eventually leaving a chocolate malt to dominate the aftertaste. Sweet and bitter largely in balance, but a tad too sour. No burnt flavors, but a hint of smoke in the finish. High complexity and good balance make every sip seem a little different than the one before. Plenty of dark chocolate in the nose and flavor.
M: near full body with rather lively carbonation. I suspect I’d prefer a bit less carbonation; a suspicion supported by the fact that the mouth feel improves after the beer has been in the glass for a while.
O: outstanding, and unusually low ABV, winter warmer.