Amber Ale

12 oz. bottle. Hazy orange color with a small, beige head. Light citrusy aroma, with some white bread, cilantro, and mild cheese. Mild malt sweetness, with maybe a hint of roasted malts. Light hop profile. Light to medium body, slightly chewy, and clean. Overall, this is a solid, easy-drinking beer.

Great for style. Nice creamy texture on this with extremely good balance between hops and malt. The blurb lives up to the fruit claim as well - there are definite hints of orange here. Foamy head with good lacing. Pours orange with a little cloud. Bottle from brewpub store.

From a 12 oz bottle at the beach. Pours a hazy amber with an off white head. Fruit and floral aroma. Malty flavor. Mildly bitter finish.

Bottle @ Brad’s house Minneapolis. Pours a hazy burnt orange appearance with a cream colored head. Nutty, toasty grainy, earthy, lightly sweet aroma. Somewhat creamy, bitter herbal, straw, toasty bready flavor. Ok.

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled 3/22/2012. Pours a very hazy orange amber color with a nice 1 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Some decent spotty lacing clings to the glass. Aromas of biscuit, toast, caramel, light citrus, floral, and nuttiness. Some pretty good well balanced aromas that are a bit muted. Taste of caramel, biscuit, grapefruit, orange, floral, toast, nuttiness, and light pine. Light bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, grapefruit, toast, floral, and light pine on the finish for a short bit. Slightly dry on the finish. Good balance of citrus hop flavors with the malt backbone. Medium carbonation and body; with a fairly creamy and slightly crisp mouthfeel. Alcohol is well hidden with pretty much no warming noticed at all on the finish. Very easy to drink as expected for 5.8%. Overall this is a very nice amber ale. Nice flavor balance and smoothness; very sessionable and enjoyable.

Jake’s Pub, Chicago tap ($6): Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of caramel malts, fruitiness, and a nice hoppy edge. Taste is predictably similar, but in a good way. This is a standard amber ale, which doesn’t succumb to amber ale boredom. The hoppy element in a nice touch. The malts are well-balanced with the hops. In short, this is an excellent session.

Refrigerated bottle poured into a shaker. Pours hazy amber with suspended yeast. Some lacing, medium carbonation, medium body, and caramel aroma. Taste is toasted caramel malt, some fruit, and some lightly bitter hops.

From notes. Draft 4oz glass from a flight at Old Chicago. Has a light amber color to it with a frothy off-white head. Looks pretty good. It has a slight hop scent but I think the head is blocking most of the aroma. Its lightly bitter. It tastes more malty than hoppy. Roasted nuts. Light bodied with a creamy texture and soft carbonation. Overall, its not bad. Something I would drink again but not seek out.

Looks nice, hazy and thick and amber with a lovely, lasting head. Smells like a combination of sweet malt and wet towels. Not sure what that odor is, but it’s a little sour and mildewy, not what you want featured in your beer’s nose. Taste regains lost ground, sweet and caramel laced, with a grassy, semiroasted middle that fades into a sturdy hop finish. The hops take command of the second half of the beer, bracing the initial sweetness, but I’m still not entirely sold on this beer. The next bottle could go either way.... (5/19/09)