Shallow toasted barley-hop template turns increasingly bitter, gaining lemony grapefruit tang and woodsy pine-needled spruce depth to dull caramel-malted finish.
Tag Archives: amber ale
MAGIC HAT ROXY ROLLES
Enormously piney-hopped coppery amber ale needs floral red-orange-fruited nosing to be more pronounced in the mouth since modest flavor profile lowers overall appeal. Taunting toasted rye base picks up astringent buttery pecan nuance to resinous black molasses finish. Distant cannabis, pekoe tea, and peanut oil hints detected.
OAK CREEK AMBER ALE
SAINT ARNOLD AMBER ALE
WILD GOOSE AMBER ALE
ARCADIA AMBER ALE
BRIDGEPORT ROPEWALK AMBER ALE
(ELLEZELLOISE) QUINTINE AMBREE
HORNPOUT NO LIMIT AMBER ALE
Brewers’ inaugural ’06 offerings were highly carbolic so pour slowly. Dry roasted hops and burnt wood chip slip reminiscent of finer India Pale Ales while grain-toasted caramel malting redolent of classic Bass Pale Ale. Supplemental spruce, beechwood, and dark floral undertones fade to parched oak bark niche, but acrid oxidation yields promiscuous heavy alcohol seepage. Brewery defunct: 2006.
MARTHA’S VINEYARD OFFSHORE AMBER ALE
O’DELLS LEVITY AMBER ALE
Tangy peach-quince freshness brightens honeyed cereal malts and grapefruit-embittered floral hops of copper-hazed pearly-headed moderate body. Sour lemon rind seduction and wood-soaked cherry parch encounter earthen mineral grains at cracked wheat spine. But abrupt astringency scours bitter piney finish, coarsening sour bruised lemon musk.