Short's Key Lime Pie
Key Lime Pie is made with fresh limes, milk sugar, graham cracker, and marshmallow fluff. The prominent flavors are immensely sweet, then tart, with subtle hints of graham cracker coming through in the nose and remain on the back of the palate. Key Lime Pie is a Gold Medal Winner at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival.
3.1
224 reviews
Bellaire, United States
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Poured a darker orange with a white head. Aroma was of caramel, lactose. Flavor simular, really sweet, light lime, caramel and lactos. Weird and not great.
Pour at the Great Taste of the Midwest. Light amber pour. Odd nose on this - malt with a hint of lime. Sweet beer, slight lime in the finish. Cool to try, but I could not drink much of this.
Key lime pie has a very good flavor. Tastes like a lime flavor initially with a subtle ending. Would drink again
Uhhhhh... Well this is weird... But I guess what was I expecting when I ordered a key lime pie beer? That being said, I’ve never had a key lime pie before so I’m only basing this off chobani’s Greek yogurt that’s key lime pie with Graham crackers and white chocolate. Maybe dropping a Chuck of white chocolate in this beer would fix it... Hmm...
Wow... What a thing this is... Heavy and sweet and weird. It’s like... Off-putting. Slightly. Sort of like a recipe someone would make drunk....... Hmmm... If this were like 8% I’d be like ok maybe but it’s like 5 and it just seems wrong.
Pours a pale copper with a foamy white head that slowly fades to thin. Aroma is graham cracker and some key lime. Flavor is key lime with a subtle tartness, apple, vanilla, and some graham cracker. Finishes dry with a thin body. I didn’t care for this one, sadly. Such a great concept, but the flavors just don’t work.
Aroma is lime and malts, taste is like milk, light beer, and lime mixed, just doesn’t work for me
Draft at GABF 2014 with Andrew, Mel and company. Pours a light body with white lacing. Aroma is lime, apple, grain and vanilla. Mouthfeel is medium to soft with notes of grainy cereal, malt, lime, lemon, apples - maybe some light graham cracker...
GABF. Orange hue with white head. Aroma is citrus, cereal, malt. Medium light body with crisp carbonation. Taste is sweet followed by slight roast. Overall this was an interesting brew.
Bottle shared by beerman6686. Clear orange red pour with a slight white head. Aroma is of key lime pie, I can really pick out all the parts but it is super light. I would love bigger aroma here but it’s there.
Bottle from trade, thanks Umich03jm! Pours golden brown with a white head. Smells like key lime pie, crust, whipped cream and all. Taste is a bit heavy on the graham cracker, with a good deal of lactose and the lime taking the back seat.
Amber colored pour. Small off white head. Little lacing. Spicy aroma similar to cinnamon. Taste is slightly fruity with the cinnamon coming through. Do not taste lime nor fluff.
Aroma of sour apples and smoked cereal. Appears hazy orange-copper with white foam and lots of lace. Tastes like Graham cracker crust and a hint of meringue. Fizzy, a bit oily palate. Overall, a tasty desert beer!
Tap. Opaque copperish color. Great head on pour followed by nice lace. Super creamy body. Nose of graham cracker, bit of smoke. Tastes simultaneously of "beer" and "key lime pie." Refreshing lime, very apparent graham cracker. A novelty, but good.
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 6/18/2014. Pours slightly hazy orange amber color with a 1 finger fairly dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Slight spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of tart lime, biscuit, graham cracker, toast, vanilla, cream, light caramel, and herbal earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of bready malt, lime, lactose, and other adjunct notes with light hop presence; and solid strength. Taste of lightly tart lime, biscuit, graham cracker, toast, vanilla, cream, light caramel, and herbal earthiness. Light tartness and minimal earthy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of lime, biscuit, graham cracker, toast, vanilla, cream, light caramel, and herbal earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and complexity of bready malt, tart limes, lactose, and other adjunct flavors; with a great malt/adjunct balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and slightly slick/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice experimental fruit beer. All around well balanced and nicely robust bready malt, lime, lactose, and other adjunct flavors; and very smooth to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
I wasn’t expecting much but this actually wasn’t so bad. Lime and meringue, grains, a bit of caramel and even a graham cracker finish. Pretty smooth and not bad in small doses.
Pours amber with a thin ivory head. Malt, Lime, and alcohol aromas. Bold lime flavor with marshmallow, cream, and citrus notes. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Creamy mouthfeel. I am a big fan of key lime pie dessert and I really liked this beer. I thought the flavors were bold and unique.
Key Lime Pie is a beer that does exactly what it sets out to. Sweet and tangy with heavy lime (funnily enough). Biscuit and graham cracker comes through on the back end. Goes well with dessert - drinking this on its’ own may be somewhat cloying and over the top.
Bottle, pours an orangey amber. Lime and bready malt in the aroma and taste. Ok but hardly worth seeking out.
The Key Lime Pie pours a rusty bronze orange color with a small beige head that doesn’t last too long. The aroma is graham cracker and lime. The flavor is lime and sugar with the graham cracker in the finish. Overall this is a decent beer but quite unique.
Interested. Some lime bread aroma amber like pour not much head. Some bread lime graham and milk. Light carbonation. Interesting. Prolly hit their mark but key like beer is what it is.
12oz bottle - pours a hazy orange . Big citrus lime aroma . Taste is tart and sweet , obviously some lime with a hint a sweet bread . Definitely interesting .
Pours a deep orange color with a thick thick foamy chunky orange tinted head. The head really really sticks around and leaves a nice lacing. A really nice looking beer all around. A strong graham cracker aroma with a hint of a tart lime in the end. Really brings all the pie qualities to the table. It starts off with a tart lime flavor. The lime really lingers on and blends into the graham cracker pie crust flavors. Very specific key lime pie tastes. A very soft feel. Great level of carbonation. Shorts really nailed it here. As usual. I think of the key lime pie Yoplait. A really good dessert beer.
Tap: Soft amber color with an olive green hue; slight haze, topped with only a small, white ring around the edge. Aroma is fairly light.. some sweet honey graham crackers, moderate caramel malt, light lime zest, although the lime character is more like "vague citrus" rather than explicit key limes. Taste is citric up front (again, almost more along the lines of lemon-lime than key lime alone) with a light tartness & sweetness combo, going mild on both. Light caramel malt backbone that may feign some graham cracker presence. Light, citrus spritz finish. In theory, I should love this beer because I absolutely love key lime pie. But I was let down a little, mostly due to insipidity. Not bad by any means, I just expected so much more based on Shorts’ other wacky experiments. Though, this was very early in my craft beer reviewing days, so I look forward to the eventual revisit.
bottle. Amber with floaties and small head. It’s every bit as strange as it sounds. Sweet with some light lime. Somehow this really does taste like Key Lime Pie. It’s a novelty, but a pretty cool novelty.
4oz on tap at HopCat East Lansing during the Shorts tap takeover. Mostly clear orange amber color. Minimal off-white head. Wow, big key lime pie creme aroma. Pretty close to the target. Weird for a beer, but damn, tastes like the pie. Very much lime zest and cream. Light tart zesty taste, moderate sweet. Medium-plus body. Very light carbonation. Nice pie crust. Impressive concept.
Draft at HopCat in East Lansing. . Pours a goldish with a hint of ruby. The aroma is a mind-blowing like scent. It smells like you’re almost about to take a shot of tequila. The taste is just as limey, if not more pronounced. The mouth feel lingers and the taste fades into a sprucy type of aftermath.
On tap at the brewpub. Pour a hazy amber with a thin head. As advertised, it has the aroma and taste of key lime pie with a slight malt background, Interesting.
Tried this on a date at the 2010 GABF. Had to go back for more! You can make out all the key ingredients for the pie, subtle lime taste and graham cracker too.
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Draft at Lou and Harry’s (from backlog). This beer did smell and taste a bit like key lime pie. It was so sweet though that a couple ounces was plenty.