Amber Apparition
Henniker Brewing Company in Henniker, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.02
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Kleg (3852) reviewed Amber Apparition from Henniker Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2
12 oz can bought in NH. Clear dark amber pour with a large creamy khaki head and great retention. Good lacing. Where's the caramel flavor? This tastes more like a hefe than an amber ale. Pass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Keg pour at powder keg beer and chili festival. Aroma is fairly nondeScript but with a faint rubbery smell(?)--not very good. Appearance is light brown pour with mild sparkle, tiny head with poor retention and minimal lacing. Taste is basically mild bitter without provoking any other flavor. Palate is light bodied with thin texture, mild to lively carbonation. Overall, not too much here and not much to recommend.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Rcvd in trade.
The appearance has a dark rusty amber/red colored body with a one and a half fingered white foamy head that lasts for a good minute before gently dieing into the body, some light speckled lacing sticks nicely to the sides of the glass.
The smell has some earthy caramel malts and light bitter hops that round out a nice sweet aroma with some toffee coming through.
The taste has mainly a sweetness running through the caramel malts. There is some toffee that comes through with a light nuttiness to it with a light caramel/nutty aftertaste and a dry sweet finish.
On the palate, it sits about a light to medium in the body with a decent enough sessionable aspect to it that could assist in going with its respected food. Carbonation is somewhat smooth but still there’s a decent harshness to subside the palate a bit longer as there’s the element of a slight creaminess rolling over the mouth and tongue.
Overall, I would say this is a nice American Amber/Red Ale well worthy of coming back to and well worthy of having it with its respected food.
CLW (16859) reviewed Amber Apparition from Henniker Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Paid $7.39 for a 22 oz. bottle at Top Shelf Brews Hampton, NH. Poured dark hazy brown color with an average white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Light toasted malt and pine needle aroma. Flavor is medium to sweet toffee with a light Earthy hop bitterness of low duration. My expectations may have been a bit high on this one. I find myself drinking a lot of amber ales recently. Honestly I don’t know why.?..? They tend to be real average, like this brew. Not bad in anyway just boring.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
22 oz bottle-trade with mcox90 thanks!-tight lt tan-dk copper. A-roasty/cocoa/peat-med/dk malt, earthy. T-roasty/cocoa/peat-med/dk malt, earthy hops. towards a brown ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours a deep garnet brown color with a smallish khaki head that that quickly dissipates to a cap on top. Smells of caramel and toffee with a hint of earthy citrus hops. The flavor is English inspired with a lightly chalky sulfur and caramel toffee maltiness with hints of earthy spicy hops that barely provide balance. Is that a bitter butterscotch I am getting in the flavor? Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet slick mouthfeel. A new NH brewery and I sooo wanted to be blown away. This one is OK, but really nothing special.