Amber Adventure
O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company in Bagenalstown, Carlow, Ireland 🇮🇪
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.27
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours a clear darker amber color, topped with a very generous off-white head. Caramel aroma, some herbal notes, later on some plesant hoppy aroma. Taste starts sweet, fine caramel notes. Herbal body with pleasantly bittery finish. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Klares bernsteinfarbenes Bier mit einer ordentlichen beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr hopfig, fruchtig, Citrus, Karamell. Geschmack nussig, Karamell, hopfig, fruchtig, ok!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled 500ml. -from Vrutak Zagreb. Clear amber coloured, medium to big sized off-white head, light caramel in the nose. Sweet malty, light caramel, slight bready and grainy with mild nutty and slight hoppy finish. Quite a mess here, but that mess is surprisingly good and drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle @Sheridan’s, Zagreb. So... "Amber Adventure" in Indiana Jones letters, oh how adventurous this must be. All kidding aside, this is supposed to be a light amber ale, heavily hopped with NZ hops. Which sounds promising enough really. Well, it certainly looks the part, dark amber with a white, fluffy head that went away very slowly. Sweet aroma, slightly heavy even, peach & elder from the hops, but a strong malty presence too, slightly dry. Not bad really... but the taste is a bit of a shock after that. Yeah, some fruity notes, peachy come up and they ARE pleasant, but the taste quickly becomes a dry mess of herbal bitterness, maltiness, metallic notes, some tartness and the aforementioned peach that saves the day really, holding on, with some sweetness to the end. The complexity of the flavors (not necessarily a great thing) isn’t matched by the body that’s supposed to hold it up, and the bitterness in the taste isn’t matched by the aftertaste (yeah, some is there, but far away). I like it and I dislike it at the same time. Heck, at 4.1% for 10.5° it shouldn’t be overattenuated, and yet it feels that way. Strange (though "clean") yeast I guess. Dunno what to think of it. A part of me would give it a 2.something and declare it’s messy slop, a part of me likes it and respects what was being aimed for. Looking at it from a session perspective, though it’s too dry, it deserves some degree of respect, though I seriously doubt that it’ll be that popular. They are heading in the right direction in any case.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught, small stable creamy head, a little hazy deep orange colour, aroma of citrusand fruity hops, flavour of citrus and barnyard with a light malty backbone, medium strong fruity piney bitterness, that lasts for quite a while with a piney finish. Good and original bitter.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ EBBC14 [280614]
Amber, clear, thin white head, slight lacing
Aroma of soft caramel, light grains, light fruits
Taste of caramel, soft grains, touch of toffee, soft fruits, easy going
Palate - soft carb, light body, light sweet. Finish as main flavour
Overall - Too many big beers during the event, this subtle beer was never going to show it’s best colours...seemed like a reasonable drinkable supermarket beer....one to re-rate
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled@PBF IX. Amber colour, small what head. Aroma is crystal malts, some mild toffee and a bit bready notes. Flavour is the same with some floral notes to it as well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml bottle @ PBF IX
Pours reddish orange with a small head. Aroma of earthy notes, malts, fruits and metallic notes. Taste is malty, bready and sweetish with some grassy hops. Finish is dry, bitter and malty. Decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
50 cl bottle @ PBF Ⅸ, BBE 28.07,2o15
Aroma has lots of bready malt and some berries. Also hints of toffee. Flavour has some hoppy tones, bready tones and toffee. Too much berries here. More like bitter or EPA than Amber Ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle 500ml (PBF IX)
Clear amber coolor, small white head. Ryeish malty aroma. Light to medium bodied. Bready, earthy bitterness and some caramel. Quite English. Plain.