Devil's Backbone

American style amber ale made by one of these new generation Irish craft brewers, thanks Johan for sharing the – beautifully styled – can. Egg-white, thick and foamy, plastery lacing head over a clear, ruddy-orange amber coloured beer. Aroma of rusk, dry teabags, fried tomato peel, peanuts, old biscuit, dried flowers, orange zest. Clean fruitiness in the mouth, touch of apple peel and orange perhaps, fizzy carb, smooth and soft bread crust-, rusk- and peanut-like maltiness, sweet with a bitterish toasty edge blending with a rooty, zesty, bit powdery, spicy ‘classically American’ hop bitterness in the end. Typical U.S. style amber along the lines of New Belgium’s Fat Tire and the like, rather unassuming perhaps in that respect as this style seems to have become rather obsolete these days, but well-balanced and technically flawless.

Can from Appellation Wines. Appearance - deep amber, toffee colour. Nice billowing suds. Nose - toffee, biscuits, honeycomb. Taste - ginger biscuits, ginger cake almost. Sweet with biscuity bitterness. Palate - medium bodied and crunchy and sweet through the middle. The finish is crunchy and dry. Overall - to me this falls into Bitter style, and as that, it's a great example.

Hazy deep amber colour, tall frothy lasting beige head, heavy lacing. Aroma toasted malt, grain, dark fruits, light liquorice. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, malty, grainy, toffee, herbal notes. Malty sweetbitter aftertaste, dusty and earthy notes, medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, nice sturdy amber ale.

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Amber colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have some candy sweetness. Sweet malts in the finish.

keg at the Edinburgh craft beer revolution.. Soft sweet toffee fruit nose.. Light caramel toffee fruit.. Massive burnt rubber... as in skid marks