Craft Select Amber Ale
Suntory Liquors Limited in Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.83
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Pours light reddish brown, big head that comes down and leaves some dirty-looking lacings. Transparent, looking watery and thin. Aroma - has a bit of bread, not much else. Maybe some wet cardboard and some sourish feel to it. Taste feels thin, some caramel and buttering hops, not much fragrance. Watery, yet feels heavy. The best part is glowing bitterness in the aftertaste. Beer is missing all fruitiness I enjoy in ales. More like amber Vienna, watered down version of that. Drinkable, but not really good
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Suntory's Amber Ale 5.5% I am drinking this to make space in my fridge and out of a sense of journalistic duty. It pours a decent looking orange amber but with a fizzy macro-lager like head of foam. The aroma is sweet sugary caramel - too sweet but not so different from other ambers I've had. Medium to light bodied with a prickly carbonation. The taste of this isn't half bad, starting with a sweet caramel hit, then cardboard/crackery malts and a dry very very light hop finish. I'd say it's within the normal range of an amber. Not good but a passable version of a pretty dull style in my opinion. Meh. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Can from the Garden. Drank straight from the can. Not much aroma on the nose, maybe some faint berries and light caramel. Watery mouthfeel with a thin body and average carbonation. Caramel syrup and some light graham cracker. Everything is muted. Not as awful as other beers in this series, but what’s the point? --- Beer merged from original tick of Craft Select Amber Ale on 24 Dec 2015 at 18:56 - Score: 4. Original review text: I didn't vomit.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Can. Industrial, candy caramel nose, bit pf cherry, weak malt, no hops. A bit grassy maybe. Pale, thin amber color. Light, thin flavor, a bit of caramel, candy, prickly hop bitterness. Does not taste bad, just dull. Thin body. This series is one fail after another.