Summer Love is 5.2% ABV Golden Ale and is the summer seasonal from Victory Brewing Company. A floral, crisp summer brew Summer Love is great for BBQ’s as it pairs well with smoked chicken, pasta salad and other summer staples.
This brew pours to a vibrant yellow color with a s light haziness and a pillowy white head that persists while drinking. Its aroma is a mixture of earthy wheat alongside wild flowers with a hint of citrus as it warms.
These scents follow into first sips where there is a slight bitterness from both the Citra and Simcoe hops used in brewing. This is the same reason there are notes of lemon and the pine you’d expect for an ale. The German malts do serve to balance the brew out, making it more earthy and not quite a pale ale.
Its fairly thin mouthfeel and medium to high carbonation means no one flavor lingers on the tongue, but does produce a dry finish. Summer Love succeeds in being a mild ale with only slight bitterness and no one overly dominant that can be enjoyed by a wide variety of beer lovers.
