Amber Ale (Macs Ale)
Portland Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.36
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Available Year Round
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear amber with a white head. Medium sweet malt with light toast. The malt is well balanced by medium citrus hops. Very easy drinking. Flavorful and enjoyable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at Portland Brewing, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out dry bready malt and very light restrained hopping. Flavour is identical, very clean and easy-drinking, but uninspiring. Bready malt, a touch of caramel and light hop resins. Decently made.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap. Pours a clear amber with a creamy tab head that dissipates slowly to the edges and laces. Aroma has notes of straw and hay with a bit of sweet grain underlying. Flavor has lots of straw with a bit of hay and a hint of grains backing.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 6/21/2013. Pours lightly hazy/cloudy deep orange/copper color with a 1-2 finger dense light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, caramel, toffee, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness, floral, grass, light pine, and floral/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus hops and dark/bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, caramel, toasted biscuit, floral, grass, light pine, and floral/toasted earthiness. Light floral/pine bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, caramel, toasted biscuit, floral, grass, light pine, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a short bit. Nice balance and solid robustness of citrus hops and dark/bready malt; with a good malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and light-medium bodied; with a smooth, crisp, and fairly thin mouthfeel that is okay. Alcohol is well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a pretty solid amber ale. Well balanced citrus hop and dark/bready malt flavors; and very smooth and crisp to drink. Could use some more flavor and body, but pretty enjoyable otherwise.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Hangar on the Wharf before the Alaskan Brewing Company’s festivities of dishing out their Kvass with BrewDogs.
This one was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a decent hazy amber to brown color with a one finger white foamy head that left some sporadic messy lacing here and there.
The smell had a dampened and somewhat rich caramel roasted maltiness. Eventually as it warmed, there was a light herbal and almost earthy weirdness coming through.
The taste was mainly sweet but through the caramel entranced maltiness. As it warmed, there was a light toasty/nuttiness trying to come through.
On the palate, this one sat right about a medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. The carbonation was decent for the style and okay to me. It was nothing bad, but nothing outstanding.
Overall, decent amber ale to have again, probably not one to seek out.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 1.5
On tap at Brewster’s in Calgary it is avclrar golden color with a slight head. The aroroma is malty with the taste of slightly bitter grain that is thin
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Albertson’s. Bland and uninteresting. Amber in color with short, dull head. Light malty aroma. Taste is weak caramel malt with a short hops bite and very short finish. Not much remains on the palate. Mouthfeel edges on watery. Pass on this one.
SHIG (13882) reviewed Amber Ale (Macs Ale) from Portland Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a Copper orange with an off white head. Aroma is soft hops and malts. Taste is nice caramel malt with a hint of hops to set it off.
bb (18428) reviewed Amber Ale (Macs Ale) from Portland Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft. Amber beer with a cream colored head. light malt and light citrus aroma. Malt and light grapefruit flavor with light pine. Medium bodied. Light grapefruit and light pine linger with light malt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught as a 5 oz sampler at Pyramid in Sacramento, CA, on April 23, 2011Clear deep amber color, white head. Sweet, fruity, hoppy taste. Dry hoppy aftertaste. Moussy mouthfeel that tingles on your toungue, medium high bitterness. Sweet malty scent.Earlier Rating: 4/27/2011 Total Score: 4Draught as a 5 oz sampler at Pyramid in Sacramento, CA, on April 23, 2011Marked as 5.1% ABV and as a nitro version of MacTarnahan’s AmberClear golden color, smooth yellowish head. Fruity, citrus, hoppy taste. Citrus aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Malty, sweet, fruity, citrus, hoppy scent.I tried it side by side with MacTarnahan’s Amber and seems it would be hard that the beer would be this much better if the only difference was nitro-co2 mix instead of co2, feels really as a different (and for me better) beer.