Belmont Top Sail

Brewed by Belmont Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Long Beach, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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On Tap. Pours with a amber body and an off-white ring. Aroma of caramel and fruit. Taste is nutty (peanut shells) with fruit, light dark roasted notes and caramel. A bit too fizzy and thin on the mouth.

Aroma of slightly roasty caramel malt with noticable hoppiness too. Pours amber - go figure. Flavor is mostly some earthy caramel with some nice hops. I remember this one being more hoppy than malty. Medium bodied. Pretty regular.

Clear amber color/ thin head. Mild nutty, caramel aromas. Fizzy light body. Mild nutty flavor with mild roasty malts, weak, thin.

(22 oz bottle: Belmont Brewing Company in Long Beach, CA) The bottle was purchased and consumed brewery fresh, and frankly, while the beers I sampled at the brewpub were forgettable, this is not a bad little beer. Lightly malty and fairly sweet, with a very perfumy and mildly floral hoppiness, this beer could be better balanced for an amber ale, a style which if anything is often more balanced toward the malty end of the spectrum. Though more hoppy than malty, this beer is only mildly bitter, and most of that is in the finish. While this beer isn’t especially malty, there is a modest roastiness lurking in the background. The nose is very perfumy and fruity. Medium in body, with a well-carbonated palate that doesn’t inspire any thoughtful description. Dark amber in color and completely clear in appearance. One strong positive note is the light tan head, which pours to an inch in height, maintains a nice topping on the beer, and leaves some dense patches of lace. I guess in the end, this isn’t a bad beer, but it’s not all that great either. Needs more malt for the style, and the hops is too perfumy for me, and unfortunately, as the beer begins to warm from fridge temperature, these aspects are magnified.

Tap at the brewpub. Nice amber pour. Smooth malt taste with some toasted and caramel touches. Light malt aroma. Just ok.

Draft @ brewery. Malt caramel with citrus grassy hops on the nose. Pours a clear copper. Piney hops with bready malts and hints of citrus hops. Balanced

Reddish amber hue, showing the clarity more of an amber lager. Aroma shows a mild nuttiness with faint malt and noticeable hops. A clean apple fruity malt drifts into a smooth slightly fizzy palate. Finishes out with a good level of bitterness and citrus in the aftertaste. A little too light in malts and body, but good hop properties. 

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a dark amber color. Aroma is a little toasted with dark fruit, mainly plum. The flavor is cardboardy with some fruit and very a barely discernible hop finish. Not a terrible amber ale.

A nice copper,amber color when poured.had a good hoppy flavor with a medium mouthfeel.The finish was slightly bitter as i noticed in most of their beers.

Color is pale amber with a small head. Toasted, biscuit malt balanced by bittering hops. Pretty well-rounded, but I guess I just wished something stood out more about this beer. To be honest this beer is a bit tought to recall in light of the fact that I tried their Hop Head Red afterwards, which blew it away.