Alaskan Amber

Brewed by Alaskan Brewing Co
Style: Altbier
Juneau, Alaska USA

Serve in Kölsch/Altbier

A serviceable amber, passable beer. Enjoyed on tap at The Yard House, Scottsdale. A little sourness, which also gave it an edgy drinkability. A bit amber, a little lace.

Thanks to Buck Dich for this. Alts tend to be "middle-of-the-road", but this one has pizzazz. Pours deep copper with medium off-white head. Aroma of caramel malts, toffee, cognac, slight brown sugar. Tastes malty, with caramel, toffee, slight honey and brown sugar, and some finishing hops. Extremely smooth palate. Fabulous. A top notch altbier.

Bottle in the rake. Alround rating: Sweet brown bread like malts, infact quite cloying for the %, seriously lacking any hop character. Not into this at all.

Many thanks to chadzter for bringing this back from AK. Pours a very bubbly amber with copper tones, a medium sized frothy and foamy head, lined lacing. Aroma is yeast (sweat, dough), malt (straw, grain, meal) and grass, flowers, earth. Medium sweet caramel malt and grainy meal flavor, grassy yeast, fizzy and spicy hops, mild bitterness and acidity. Medium bodied and fizzy-spicy palate.

Bomber poured a clear amber with a small lasting amber head. Aromas of carmel, fruittiness and toasted malt. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a smooth finish. Flavors of carmel, toasted malt and light fruittiness with a smooth lightly sweet finish.

Bottle. I was not a fan of this beer. Pours Amber white 2 finger head quickly diminsishing to this hoppy, fruity alt. Wheat and earthy notes. eh.

Bottle. Man, what a dissapointment. First of all, this isn’t an altbier, no way in the world. Tasted more like Newcastle Brown, horribly sweet, caramel, toffee and nuts, soft, sweet rubbish, made me angry while drinking it, because i was expecting am enjoyable beer, which is not what it ended up being.

Good beer. I had this while I was out west(Oregon or Wash) and liked it. Well balanced and tasty.