21st Amendment Special Edition Allies Win The War

21st Amendment Brewery
Brewed at Cold Spring Brewery
Style: English Strong Ale
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Sampled on 1/1/2012. This English Strong Ale pours a deep reddish amber color from a 12oz can. Medium to large sized white foamy head, with decent lacing and nice retention. The aroma is caramel, bready, fruity, dates and sweet. A medium bodied English Strong Ale. The malts are caramel. dark fruit and sweet. The hops are herbal and earthy. Nice carbonation. Caramel, fruity and sweet with a definite date flavor at the finish. Very easy drinking beer. A little thin maybe. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

(Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 31 March 2012) Dark reddish brown colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with red fruit, caramel and orange peel. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, toast, red fruit and spicy hops in the finish. More than medium body, with a certain malt sweetness. Very much like an English strong ale brewed by American brewers, which in fact is exactly what it is. Well balanced and nice.

Can, shared with my wife. Beautiful deep copper orange with a thick golden head that leaves sheets of sticky lace. Aroma is very enticing: breadcrusts, earthy toffee, light chocolate, light pine. Delicious flavours of breadcrusts, sponge toffee, sticky dates, light citrus and pine, moderately bitter finish.

Can. Dark red, with a thin but firm head of light tan foam. Sweet caramel aroma. The beer drinks super-sweet ... full of caramel malt, and a raisin-like richness that I have to attribute to the advertised dates. Slippery enough to lubricate a kid’s bike, I’d say. (#4448, 1/15/2012)

Picked up single 12-oz can at Heritage Liquors in Maplewood, MN. Pours a clear golden amber colored brew with a fast dissipating off-white head that leaves behind some spotty lacing. Aroma of golden grain malt, some floral and spice hops and a touch of fruit. Taste is light to medium bodied, with flavors of golden grain malt, a touch of corn, some lager yeast, a hint of grassy hops and some dry herbs. Finish has a lager yeast and a hint of dates followed by a crisp and clean cut finish.

Draft. Pours reddish amber with wwhite head. Nose/taste of berry, spicy hops, peppermint, light cocoa and sweet malt. Medium body.

On tap at Beer Revolution. Pours reddish brown with a nice beige head and a fruity aroma. There is a dry earthy dark malt flavor with lots of carbonation and a bitter hoppy finish. A nice brew.

1/25/12. 12oz can. Basically clear amber pour with a small khaki head that fades to a ring and barely laces. Sweet aroma of brown sugar with a touch of alcohol and bitterness. Slightly sweet caramel entry with a definite minerally bitterness, a fair hint of roast, and lingering earthy hop bitterness. More time shows dark fruits and nuttiness lingering as well. Not bad.

12oz. Can: Aroma of malt, hops, caramel, pine, and toffee. Poured very deep amber/deep orange in color with a small, creamy, tan head that greatly diminished but lasted throughout around the edges. Clear. Sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and light to medium bitter. Tastes of malt, caramel, toffee, hops, pine, slight medicine, and some resin. Medium body. Lightly dry texture. Average carbonation. Malt, hop, pine, caramel, toffee, resin finish is light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter, as well as lightly dry. 8.5%ABV is completely hidden throughout.

Can:   Coppery colored, thin to moderate off-white head, a bit sudsy, with sparce lacing.   Somewhat of a bready and biscuity nose.   An odd duck of astringent biscuity mealy malt flavors on the tongue.   Its a bit hoppier than most English Ales.   Seems like an ESA meets ASA of sorts, and I am not sure that it works.   Its like many winter English Strong Ales, except remove the strong biscuity malt profile, dim that down a bunch, and add a stronger than normal hop back ground.   Not really digging this one, seems really out of balance in terms of hops mated with malts.