Gnome's Amber Ale
Ellison Brewery + Spirits in East Lansing, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.99
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at The Draft Room during the Ellison Brewery Launch Event on 02/28/2019 (as Amber). The beer is a clear copper-amber color with a medium thin off-white head that diminishes gradually to a film. Small patches of lace. Malt, fruit and caramel aroma. Light to medium body with flavors of roasted malt, fruit, caramel and slight hops. The finish is sweet with a malty aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
16 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 1/17/2018. Pours slightly hazy medium orange/amber/light copper color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy cream colored head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big caramel, honey, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, citrus, herbal, pepper, and floral/grassy/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big caramel, honey, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, citrus, herbal, pepper, and floral/grassy/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/grassy/spicy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, honey, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/roast, citrus, herbal, pepper, and floral/grassy/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 5.7%. Overall this is an awesome American amber! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; extremely smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Rich Crystal/Honey/Munich malt complexity with balancing earthy hops. A really enjoyable offering, and spot on style example. One of the best true to-style ambers I've had.