Anchor Liberty Ale

Brewed by Anchor Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

My favorite from Anchor. Pours amber with medium off-white head, nice and lasting lacing on the glass. Aroma is mainly hoppy with citrus, grapefruit and grass, but there’s a bready maltiness there as well. Taste starts off with a sweet malty tone (bread, hay and a touch of toffee) before ending with a fairly long hoppy finish (grass, citrus). Body is decently full and creamy for the ABV, and the medium level of carbonation works well with the taste.

355 ML bottle. Pours golden with a frothy white head. Fresh floral fruit notes with a low bitterness. A refreshing, albeit not balanced ale. Good!

Bottle @ JohnMurdoch. Hazy dark golden colour, off-white head. Nose is grainy, citrus. Flavour is citric, grainy, a bit creamy. Slgihtly bitter and slightly dry finish.

Refrigerated bottle poured into a shaker. Pours hazy light orange with medium head that dissapates quickly. Pretty good lacing, medium body, and slightly sticky texture. Taste is grapefruit and finishes dry grassy bitter hops.

Bottle. Pours a clear orange with a slight yellow hue and a white head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of grass and a bit of floral hops with some sweet grains and breads backing. Flavor begins with a good amount of sweet grain and hay and is joined by some floral and grassy hops in the finish.

UPDATED: AUG 13, 2011 Bottle from West Brewing Company. Spicy hoppy aroma. Cloudy yellow brown colour. Creamy grainy hop & citrus fruit flavour. Light and refreshing.

09.08.2011. 0,355l Bottle. Systembolaget Strömstad. Golden yellow colour, white head and a little bit cloudy. Aroma is dominated by strong dry bitter hops. Medium malty body. Hops are bitter and very fresh and aromatic. Medium lasting bitter aftertaste. Good beer.

Disappointing beer. It’s not bad, but I expected it to be better. Don’t really taste ’heavely cascade hopped’.