Clipper City Oxford Class Organic Amber

Brewed by Clipper City Brewing Co.
Style: Amber Ale
Baltimore, Maryland USA

Dark amber, thin white creamy head. Soft grains and earth nose warms to hints of chocolate tea. Lightly toasted cereal flavors balance on touches of grainy chocolate notes. Light bodied with soft carbonation. Boring and bland...

Bottle from State Line. Pours ruby brownish with khaki head. Nose is caramel malt, some nuts, hops. Tastes a bit tart, with caramel malt, hops, and some charred cereal notes.

12 oz bottle from BOMC, shared with a homebrewer friend. Nice white head on amber beer. Good malt and hop aroma. Flavor is caramel, malt, and hops. Typical, fairly good, but not impressive. I never saw any benefit to the overpriced organic hype, just not worth the price. Even so, this is a decent, drinkable amber.

Bottle; second sampling of it. Poured a medium to dark amber with a smallish tan head. Aroma of nuts, slightly sweet caramel, toast and earth. Flavor was good for an "organic" beer. Alot of sweet caramel, biscuit and earthy malt initially, with a slight bitter finish; not much flavor from the hops. As others have mentioned, a slight tart presence was sometimes evident. Probably good for the style and for organic beers.

Bottle: Poured dark brown color with almost no head to speak of. Scents are sweet caramel and fruit. Taste is pleasent with a slight sweet aftertaste. BOM

12oz bottle. Nice dark amber pour but the thin taste does not match. This beer kinda bored me, just not that much to it.

12oz bottle. Small off-white head atop crystal clear dark amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, caramel, some earthy, nut, light apricot. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, some earthy, light pine, apricot. Light-medium body, low carbonation.

12 oz bottle-pours a thin tan head and brown/copper color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel/peat. Taste is medium malt-caramel/peat, some sour fruit, English (?) yeast.