Amber Smashed Face
3 Floyds Brewing Company in Munster, Indiana, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - American Rotating|
Score
7.36
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An aggressively hopped American Amber Ale sure to crush your skill and liquify your brain
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From tap. Pours cloudy amber, small white head. Aroma is fruity, crisp hoppy. Solid hoppy. Bitter, fruity. Mild sweet. Toasted malty. Lingering breadish and solid hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Apr 2018
at 10:58
7/10
Tried
at
Holy Grale
on 28 Dec 2017
at 23:54
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Non Beer Trip Beer Trip Beer #46. Keg at the brewpub, 3/10/16. Clear amber, thin fizzy tan head, good retention. Aroma of toasted malts, herbal and leafy hops. The taste is herbal, piney hops, umami, pale malt, mild toast. Medium bodied, moderate lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2016
at 00:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Mikkeller Shop. Pours clear amber with white head. Intense, citrusy, hoppy aroma with caramel, grass and some dank hops. Taste is more resinous with pine, grass, caramel and zesty lemon. Borderline IPA, but very nice overall nonetheless.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2016
at 10:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a pale amber color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy caramel aroma. Fruity malty piney hoppy caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty piney hoppy caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2016
at 05:48
7/10
Fruity grassy red IPA. Wouldn't call it an amber but I guess that's good since I generally don't like ambers.
Tried
on 12 May 2016
at 00:04
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared with Niller, sourced from Mikkeller Bottle Shop, Copenhagen - (bottled 18/2/2016) fuzzy glowing orange Amber pour with off white head and lacing. Aroma and taste is a plethora of juicy tropical and citrus fruits, vibrant mango and grapefruit, tangerine, citrus peel, solid caramel malty backbone, some dank hoppy action going on as well, went down a treat. Gorgeous.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2016
at 13:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled 2/18/16 and drunk 3/26/16.
Ruby-amber body has some darker beige notes and a large beige head that slowly recedes to cover. Good clarity, with a touch of chill-haze.
Massively fruity hops in the nose combine with light notes of specialty malt (low on the iced tea here, thankfully, they add mostly some various grain/cereal notes) and plenty of vanilla-caramel character from the interaction with the base malts. Low on the "sour" hop element that many of their beers are prone to (really just too much bittering hop in a lot of their beers). No alcohol or flaw. Red fruits, mangoes, apples, cherries. Seems like lots of late simcoe and centennial, yet the pine expected with those is quite low, pleasantly enough.
In the mouth it has an earthy/bready malt character with some softer caramel sweetness helping to balance. Fruity hops show moderate bitterness, with lemon and orange peel and light pine, but an equal, or perhaps larger portion of strawberry-mango-cherry-like playfulness and levity. Quite drinkable and very malty-soft, though not underattenuated or overly sweet. Of all the recent 3 Floyds I’ve tried (permanent funeral, Cimmerian Sabertooth, wigsplitter and this) I’m pretty surprised the amber ale was my favorite by a good margin (though as Chris points out, this is basically just a malty IPA, not really an amber).
Ruby-amber body has some darker beige notes and a large beige head that slowly recedes to cover. Good clarity, with a touch of chill-haze.
Massively fruity hops in the nose combine with light notes of specialty malt (low on the iced tea here, thankfully, they add mostly some various grain/cereal notes) and plenty of vanilla-caramel character from the interaction with the base malts. Low on the "sour" hop element that many of their beers are prone to (really just too much bittering hop in a lot of their beers). No alcohol or flaw. Red fruits, mangoes, apples, cherries. Seems like lots of late simcoe and centennial, yet the pine expected with those is quite low, pleasantly enough.
In the mouth it has an earthy/bready malt character with some softer caramel sweetness helping to balance. Fruity hops show moderate bitterness, with lemon and orange peel and light pine, but an equal, or perhaps larger portion of strawberry-mango-cherry-like playfulness and levity. Quite drinkable and very malty-soft, though not underattenuated or overly sweet. Of all the recent 3 Floyds I’ve tried (permanent funeral, Cimmerian Sabertooth, wigsplitter and this) I’m pretty surprised the amber ale was my favorite by a good margin (though as Chris points out, this is basically just a malty IPA, not really an amber).
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2016
at 16:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
650 ml bottle thanks to ClarkVV. Aroma is Bolder hop profile and the malt shows the balance in both aroma and flavor.
Flavor is citrus rindy grapefruits, lemons, pineapple, and mildly aggressive pine resin. Caramel and sweet malts to help balance this bold hop profile. I like this because it does not resemble an amber ale in the slightest, all IPA here. Nice
Flavor is citrus rindy grapefruits, lemons, pineapple, and mildly aggressive pine resin. Caramel and sweet malts to help balance this bold hop profile. I like this because it does not resemble an amber ale in the slightest, all IPA here. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2016
at 16:09
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured from bottle thanks ClarkVV golden caramel pour with a nice white head. Aromas of dank citrus caramel and hops. Taste is slightly sweet caramel toffee with hint of hop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2016
at 16:13