Blackhorse Barnstormer Red

Brewed by Blackhorse Pub & Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Clarksville, Tennessee USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Some light hops in the aroma. Good red color. Also some malt caramel. Not as good as it smells. LIght without a real distinct. character. Mostly boring.

Pours a clear red amber with a thinnish head and some lacing. Good carbonation. Aromas of slightly toasted malts with a good dose of floral and piney hops. Taste is hoppier than expected with a nice malt back. Good amber.

Draft sample at KBJ2010. Poured clear copper color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate toasted malt and hop aroma. Medium body with a smooth thin texture and soft carbonation. Medium sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where not met.

On Tap at the Blackhorse Pub & Brewery- Beer has an amber hue with a light head. The smell hints of caramel, but mostly generic. The taste was clean with a light sweetness I did not expect . Feel is a medium body with low carbonation and goes down smooth. Worth a try if your at the pub, one of the better brews they had on tap.

Slight hazed bronze pour with off white head and lace. Aroma of earthy hops. Light/medium sweet malt without much bitter. Medium bodied but thin. A drinkable beer.

Appearance: Lightly hazed, amber-hued body with a small, somewhat fizzy, white head. Smell: Aroma smelling of buttered-up biscuits with some sweetish toffee tones and nominal fruity notes. No real apparent hop character. Taste: Tastes of caramel and toffee from the malts with a relatively light amount of overall sweetness. Again, there’s that gosh-darned diacetyl, so, yeah, more butter from Blackhorse. Hint of ripe fruitiness. Very mild, very fleeting hop presence, with almost nil bitterness to offer. Meager touch of biscuits. Then, it’s more of the same until the finish. Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium-low carbonation. Drinkability: Assumably designed and formulated with ease of drinkability, as it’s just so mild (and so buttery) in all its facets. My dear Fine Friend Fifi opted for this buttery offering.

Golden red-orange with a quick whitish foam. Aroma is caramel, toast, metal. Taste is toasted malt, metallic notes, caramel and sweet malts.

Knoxville Brewer’s Jam sample. Poured a clear amber with a one finger whitish head. Aroma of caramel malt. Flavor of oak, dark fruit and caramel. Good beer. A great staple for a small brewer such as this.

2008 Knoxville Brewers’ Jam. Pours hazy amber with off-white head. The aroma is straight caramel with a little bit of a butter tinge. The flavor is pretty much the same, with a few woody and fruity notes thrown in for good measure. Very, very simple, but not undrinkable.

Sampled at the 2008 Knoxville Brewer’s Jam. Reddish orange. Big aroma of caramel and toffee. Flavor is also caramel and toffee. Simple, but tasty.