Ambar IPA
Cervezas Ambar in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain 🇪🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
5.77
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6.5/10
Tried
on 01 Feb 2022
at 16:44
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
IPA from local brewery in Zaragoza in northeast Spain, thanks to my girlfriend Goedele for this unknown bottle! Medium thick, moussy, egg-white, regular, slowly breaking, dotty-lacing, eventually opening and thinning head on a near clear, deep golden beer with orangey hue, slight haze in the middle along with disparate strings of sparkling. Aroma of banana candy, hand soap, orange-flavoured Fruitella candy from when I was a child, lavender, bath foam, plaster, apple peel, sugared tea, something lemonade-like. Sweetish onset in a very clean, slick way, bit sugary even, apple and banana aspects, softish carb, some minerally notes; very slick, slender body, thinly caramelly and cereally maltiness, increasingly bittered by a quinine-ish, rooty, peppery hoppiness which fills the finish, ending with a wormwoody bitterness that lingers for quite a long time, along with something soapy or bubblegummy. The nose did not promise much, to put it kindly, but this beer does behave a lot better in the mouth: though thin and lacking in depth and power, it does offer a long-lasting, wormwoody, tonic-watery bitterness of a kind I have not encountered in IPA in a long time. Almost English IPA in style, but with a more powerful bitterness sitting closer to its West Coast heir - and even if the whole beer feels a bit half-hearted and misses the point in terms of aroma, this refreshing bitterness is an important plus for me personally so I cannot be too harsh on this one, which I feel is a bit underrated here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2021
at 21:45
3/10
Lata de @Supermercado. 22/06/2021. Color ambarino corona de espuma blanca, aromas herbales, sabor herbal, floja. Mala.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2021
at 19:20
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Many Thanks for this bottle to Mario from Valencia. srednia piana, ale klarowne, opada niestety szybko. barwa jasno bursztynowa, nie wiele w aromacie sie dzieje, praktycznie nic nie czuc, ale w smaku jest lepiej, chmiele sie czuje posmaczek smaczny i wyraznie sie ciagnacy niczym guma turbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2021
at 18:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
IPA @ the beach. Cloudy, muddy orange color and a white head. Fruoty nose, taste is floral-fruity with a good hoppy finish. Nice balance.
Tried
on 26 Nov 2020
at 11:03
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
How: Draught.
Where: The Bridge, Torrevieja, Spain.
Appearance: Golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Malt, hops, citrus, fruit.
Body: Light to medium body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Malt, citrus, hops, fruit, bitter finish.
Where: The Bridge, Torrevieja, Spain.
Appearance: Golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Malt, hops, citrus, fruit.
Body: Light to medium body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Malt, citrus, hops, fruit, bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Sep 2020
at 14:40
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
33 cl bottle served in Chimay chalice at my father's place (thanks, dad.) It pours clean amber with a huge, foamy, off-white head. Aroma is some strawberry, certain lemon and a disctint tinge of aspirin. Soft, bitterish, long-lasting and refreshing. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2020
at 10:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 8
Overall 4
Pale gold, hazy, with a frothy white head that lingers. Aroma of tangerines and something resembling a sugary, peach syrup. Taste follows through along those lines—sweet, almost cloying, artificial. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Not my thing.
Tried
on 24 Feb 2020
at 17:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Very hazy amber with quickly disappearing head leaving a few mm thick covering. Interesting nose lemon, oak, champagne. Smells almost like a sour. Interesting hints on top of the lemon in the mouth. Again oak (checking if it spends time in a barrel: can't find anything). Very lemony without being bitter. Ok but a bit weak.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Feb 2020
at 23:35
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
330ml bottle. Hazy, grey-ish, orangey golden colour with small to average, frothy, diminishing, minimally lacing, white head. Sugary sweet-ish, slightly artificial, fruity aroma, hints of peach, apricot, Trolli Pfirsichringe. Taste is watery, sweet-ish sugary, slightly leafy and bitter, minimally citrusy and fruity hoppy, a touch of lemon and peach, peach flavoured ice rea. Quite anaemic, slightly artificial, sugary sweet - not good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2019
at 15:32