3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours an orange/red color. not getting a lot of the malt and roast notes that I expect from an amber. seems to be hoppier than it should be too. If I hadn’t read the label, I probably would have liked it more. A pretty good pale ale in my mind. Floral with a nice bite to it.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JAN 8, 2012 [330ml bottle from my wife - cheers!] Once again I’m offended by a Brewdog beer before I open the bottle - why they want to fill the bottle label with text hurling abuse at their customers is beyond me. The gratuitous swearing is a turn-off too. It’s lucky they make decent beer really otherwise I for one wouldn’t be buying them. This one’s a deep bronzey-amber with a cappuccino head and a slight fizz. It’s dominated by pine resin with lots of sweet lime and some grapefruit too. There’s a touch of spice tingling on the tongue, and some sweet chocolatey malt in the background. The moderate bitterness is well balanced by the sweet malt and a rich satisfying mouthfeel with a slightly dry finish. It leaves you with a big smile on your face, wanting more. Great stuff!
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very thick, cream-yellow head, slowly collapsing leaving lace over clear deep-amber beer. Thick C-hops, with caramel, banana and mango aromas. Superb. Very dry, peppery hops with very watered-down caramel flavour. Finish is hoppy and dry. Bit light palate, false (malt)syrupy impression, with a near-sticky ending. "Iconoclastic amber ale", they call it. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
On tap at Stone Bistro. Pours a nice reddish amber with creamy off-white head. Citrusy hops, malt, light fruit, and bread in the aroma. Flavor is similar, except lighter on the hops, and more caramel and bread. Nice beer, tasty and drinkable.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Gave the cask version a miss at Leicester knowing it would turn up sooner or later...and sure enough here it is. Bottle from The Wine Cellars. Brilliant ruby with a slim, tenacious cream head and lacework aplenty. The kind of lush tropical-hoppy aroma I’ve come to expect from The Dog; grapefruit juice, lychees, strawberry Chewits. Hopped-up, drying, tropical and husky on the palate like a HTDC shandy; big notes of grapefruit, tonic water, high cocoa and caramel. A notch more balancing malt sweetness and body would have been good, but I’m nit-picking. Quality.
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
A really good clean tasting crisp slightly hoppy amber ale. Aroma oozes sharp fruit, bit of grapefruit and orange. The appearance is pretty much perfect consisting of bright orange amber colour, carbontion and a clear visibility. Yellow off white foamy head with good lacing. The palate is smooth on the tongue and quite light. The taste is crisp citrus fruit with a bitter taste. It has a slight sweet hint too.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
when i think Amber ale, i’m bored, but Brewdog wakes and shakes this style up!! .. Pours out a dark orange, with medium bubbly white foam, lacing is also good .. aroma of light citrus, orange peel, pine cone - big for an amber .. very smooth, Watt was hittin them hard all night! .. Good stuff, and damned enjoyable.. .. No actually the boy is quite astute. I really am trying to kill him, but so far unsuccessfully. He’s quite wily, like his old man.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at the Ginger Man, NYC. Pours a truly gorgeous ruby-red with a lingering white head. Nose is heavy on the hops, piney. Flavor is more balanced, with some earthy, sweet malts to counter the hops. Medium bodied with nice carbonation. Finish is clean, mildly dry with some bitterness. Quite good.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
0,33 l bottle, bought at PreZBF Festival, Belgium.
What an appearance!!! Clear, deep amber beer with a huge, foamy but creamy tan head. And the aroma.. Fine citrussy hop perfume comes in the first second, after that arrives the caramel, some toasry aroma, grape and fine citrusses like grapefruit, orange peel. Alluring me to taste it....Medium bodied one with a powerful fruity hop flavor. Citrusses and grape, edible floral.flowery hops. Caramel and malt give the base for the resiny games of hops. Dry, floral aftertaste. Characteristic, hoppy amber one, yumm!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at Spuyten Duyvil. Poured a rich red amber with a thin off white head. Nose is big simcoe and chinook hops. Lots of caramel flavor. The mouthful is a bit thin but that adds to the drinkability. This is a great red beer. It’s hoppy and bitter with sweet caramel but it’s so non offensive.
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