Toshis Amber Ale

Brewed by Banks’s (Marstons plc)
Style: Amber Ale
Wolverhampton, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Tasted this in The Esquires House, Glasgow (JDW) in November 2009. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear red amber with a thick creamy white head. strong fruity malt in the long aroma. Good creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt gives strong fruit notes of watermelon and redcurrants. Slight hop presence in the short aftertaste but sweet fruit in the refreshing finish. This reminded me of Houston brewery’s Crystal? A good summer session ale this.

Big citric bitterness at the beginning touching on iron and melon. It quickly mellows out to creamy maltiness. Totally sessionable. If a little biley at the start.

Cask at Baker Street, W’Spoons. An amber coloured ale with a good fluffy white head. Really nice fresh and fruity aroma. Easy drinking ale tasting of fruit with a nice slight bitterness. Pleasant.

The Fleur-de-Lis, Banbury. Soft tawny amber ringed with lace. Wet hay and faint citrus aroma witha pinch of ginger. Riper, more flowery citrus beneath; tangerine, biscuit, some white grape, paper and cherry sherbet. Mineral softness, English silk. Flimsy but decent. I like Japan and I like Banks’s. Good balance. 14.

A Mes rate. Cask at Baker Street ’Sporks.
Clean copper with an oily film. Strong biscuity malt, very bready. Faint astringent feel. Slightly meaty and fatty. Spooned to death I’m afraid. 

Handpulled cask at JDW Baker St. Amber with a loose bubbled off white head. A subtle. varied flavours but very underwhelming considering the hops promissed in the festival program. Watery!

Cask, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Oadby. Amber with an off-white foam.. Aromas are weetabix and toffee malts with peppery, herbal notes. Flavours are very herbal with grapefruit. Sweet toffee and caramel with a peppery finish.

Cask at JDW ... Amber ... thin white head ... soft fruity ligth hop nose ... light fruity toffee malts ... soft easy ... nice ... but nothing special