Abita Amber Lager

Thanks to richbrew for this one. Bottle: Amber brown color with a medium flaky head, lots of carbonation; aroma is quite inviting. Taste is straightforward, light body, clean and crisp.

Bottle. Slight sweet malt aroma. Copper color with small head. Very light flavor - caramel malt. I don’t know what happened to Abita - seemed to be a lot better 15 years ago. Seems much weaker now.

Slight bitter nut taste at the beginning, light amber in color. light body for an amber beer. Hint a caramel at the finish that goes away quick.

Light amber; fizzy head. Aroma is pretty lame, mostly just light malts and dark sugar. Flavor shows light malts and a touch of caramel. Medium-thin and overcarbonated. A fairly crappy beer.

On Tap at the new <a href=/Place/tennessee/cordova/the-flying-saucer/5594.htm> Flying Saucer in Cordova, TN. Poured a dark golden amber. Light creamy head. Medium body with light lacing on the glass. The flavor was pretty mild. I’d have to say not a lot to this beer overall... Worth a try? If you haven’t had it yet, if you know you like something, go with it instead.

Color; amber. Nose; beer. Palate; light nectar. Overall, a well ballanced amber lager that runs circles around the major mfrs’ rice burners.

Abita Amber is a Munich style lager, and it is a good one in my opinion. This beer has a really nice crystal malt character, and is quite balanced. Abita Amber pours to a deep amber color with a nice white head, and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer has some really nice malt aromas, and is balanced with some nice hop aromatics. The palate is a firm malt backbone of crystal malt flavors, slightly sweet, and a touch toasty. The body is really smooth and round. This is a very drinkable beer. This beer finishes will more malt character up front, then in balanced with a nice short, hop bitterness. Really a well done, balanced, smooth, drinkable, lager. Good malt flavors, and just the right amount of hop bitterness to balance. This beer worked very well with an appetizer of "alligator bites" which are battered and fried chunks of alligator meat, served with a spicy, Tabasco spike dipping sauce. This beer also worked well with an entree of Jambalaya, a rice dish loaded with spicy taso ham, andouille sausage, shrimp, and okra. Often I pair a very hop accented brew to stand up to spicy fare, but a malt accented, balanced brew such as Abita Amber, works well with spicy fare too. I switched up to Turbo Dog for desert though. Its chocolatey character made the perfect foil to cranberry bread pudding and whiskey sauce. I would also match Abita Amber is German fare, it would work well with grilled bratwurst, and roasted pork or chicken dishes.

An average looking amber/copper with a white halo. Diacetyls ruin all, but I can detect some bitter hopping in the nose. Bitter nuts start the flavor, but buttery-dumb-butterscotch is stale and unwelcome. Thankfully, light effervescence dries the flavor out of the mouth rather quickly.

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