Northwoods Amber
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular|
Score
5.66
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Malt forward amber lager with Cascade & Cluster hops
Originally introduced in 1986, Northwoods Amber quickly became a fan favorite in coolers across the country. In fact, Northwoods Amber has won a gold medal in 1993 at the Great American Beer Festival® in the Premium Lager category. It’s made with some of the finest quality ingredients, including some hops, barley, oats and water from right here in Wisconsin.
Originally introduced in 1986, Northwoods Amber quickly became a fan favorite in coolers across the country. In fact, Northwoods Amber has won a gold medal in 1993 at the Great American Beer Festival® in the Premium Lager category. It’s made with some of the finest quality ingredients, including some hops, barley, oats and water from right here in Wisconsin.
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3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Bottle. Just another massed produced American lager that just does not taste good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 06:04
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz. bottle, found in a friends fridge. Appears to be a couple years old. Pours a darker, copper color, with a small, fleeting head. Thin, acrid malts, caramel, and rotten bananas. Sweet and watery. Quite poor. Drain poured...
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2019
at 16:04
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 ounce bottle. Clear amber, thin fizzy white head, poor retention. Aroma of toasted grain, apple, grassy hops. Taste is grassy hops, pale malt, apple. Thin, high carb. Decent for the style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2018
at 03:03
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 3/26/2018. Pours crystal clear golden amber color with a 1 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with bready malt and light earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, biscuit, light honey/nuttiness, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness of bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, fairly crisp, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.9%. Overall this is a delicious pale lager. All around nice robustness of bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink. Flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Clean and nicely rich Pils/Munich malt flavors, with just enough earthy hops to balance. Drinks more like a Helles to me. A really enjoyable offering, and great style example.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2018
at 00:34
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle, not retired. Looks like pale lager, but certainly more quality here than a cheap pale lager. A better attitude towards pale lager fer sher. Mine says 4.9%. Nearly noticable sweet perfume cream corn aroma. Smooth and on par with any cheap macro - lite er not - as far as drinkability goes. Easy and it goes down easy, nice job LK. Refreshing summer tasks beer? Let me try!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2017
at 13:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From old tasting notes. Labeled as "Linenkugel’s Limited Lager". Bright amber orange color. Dense bubbly beige head.mtart toasted malt nose. Spicy toasted malt flavor finishes dry and crisp. Long bitter aftertaste.
Tried
on 12 May 2017
at 21:26
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz bottle from the winter variety pack. This one must be out of retirement now. Aroma is floral, cereal grains, grain, generic beer. Pours clear new penny copper with a reducing white head that laces a bit. Taste has a slight hoppy bitterness and a light malt sweetness; crisp, clean and refreshing. Damn, this is pretty good. It reminds me of a craft pilsner like Pivo or something. They better keep it out of retirement. It’s so much better than the majority of their offerings.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2017
at 20:43
6/10
Tried
on 20 Feb 2012
at 15:20
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Pour is a dark gold with a white head. Aroma is sweet and grainy. Flavor is some dry hay malts and nothing in the way of hops. Slightly more body and heft then a BMC and by slightly I mean very slightly.
Tried
on 21 May 2011
at 16:53
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
draft - Pours clear deep gold with a small white head. It smells of bready, grainy malt. The flavor is of sweet, grainy malt and some very mild hops. This brew is basically fizzy yellow beer. It’s better than most pale lagers, I’ll give it that, but it’s still unimpressive.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Apr 2011
at 18:21