Abita Amber Lager

Bottle: Poured a rusty copper with a off creamy white head. Aroma is sweet and malty. Taste is caramel malt and metallic hops.

I’ll admit it, I’m partial to Abita because I’m from New Orleans. It’s an above-average beer good for standard drinking, and usually what I’ll go to at a restaurant. Clear amber color, white head. Goes down smooth with flavors of malt and caramel and a clean finish.

Overall Impression: I remember this being a decent Amber beer, but I just didn’t stick in my brain too well.

**I will need to re visit this ranking in the future, as I don’t remember all the intricacies of this beer well enough to record them at this time.

12 oz bottle from the Binnys Singles Rack (Orland Park, Il). Pours a bit of a dark gold, just a touched hazed, with decent offwhite head that dissipates to a good film. Well carbonated, aromas are some decent bready malt with light biscuit and a spiciness to it. Initial is light bodied, light bready malt, light sweetness, with a faint spice and pepper. A little too watery and weak for me. Needs to pronounce it’s style, not cower in fear and lack flavor. Quenching, but lacking overall.

Clear amber color with a white head. Mild hop, wheat, and malt aroma. Smooth drinking. Not much carbonation. Flavor of malts, wheat and a mild hop end.

pours copper with white head. Aroma is hoppy, wheat and malty, really nothing special there. Taste, hoppy with some fruit notes, light malt presence giving the beer a sweet mouthfeel of wheat/caramel with notes of grains. Boring at best.

Bottle. Amber color, normal white head. Little lacing on the glass but it is carbonated well. Malt and grain taste.

Has a slight taste of burnt barley. The cocoa taste can’t overpower the subtilty of burntness.