Celtika Ambrée

Formerly brewed at Brasserie Celtik (formerly: Douar Men)
Style: Amber Ale
Cléguérec, France

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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750ml bottle. Pours a cloudy amber color with a two finger head. Smell of toffee, with spiced light fruit, cinnamon and honey. Flavor is a dry assertive Belgian Pale with a lingering sugar candy sweetness. Medium bodied, slightly creamy, with a light but persistent carbonation.

Way to go mom on finding the rare beer only distributed in Northern Virginia. Too bad it pours so much head you have to wait a half hour before you can drink it. I was expecting a little more maltiness from an amber beer. This tastes more like a triple to me. Fruity and spicy. Pours a hazy light amber color. Big, BIG head detracts from the beer.

Hazy beige colour, with a strangly fruity aroma that made me wonder if this was an amber ale or not (thinking the a actual type of beer was wrongly translated into English). I was orignally quite disappointed by the flavor, which I found to be very thin; Then I realized that this beer is actually 6.5% alcohol, so the thin flavor is actually a false-front for a real whopping hang-over. All told, this isn’t a bad beer. The finish is light, but easy to handle. Probably a really nice summer beer, to be enjoyed while sitting in the shade and feeling lazy. Sante

Foggy amber color with a huge frothy head. Citrusy aroma. Some yeast notes, as well as bitterness. Not overpowering. Sweet, with a dry finish. Kind of bitter. Interesting Amber Ale.

Bottle, a bit past it’s "best by" date. It erupted from the bottle and poured with a big airy head that disappeared in a steady pace, like 7Up. Once the body appears, it’s muddy orange. The aroma is yeasty and bitter. Milky. Quite sour. Bready. Dried fruit. Vanilla. Tea. Complex. (#3070, 8/29/2007)

Corked like a champagne bottle, it poured from the bottle with a tremendous amount of white frothy head. The color is a deep rusty orange that is translucent. The initial fragrance is of citrus with a slight hint of yeast. Once you wait out the tremendous head, which laces and doesn’t dimish fully, the flavor is underwhelming, the initial flavor is slighty sweet and slighty bitter. The beer is very flat on the palate with an astringent feel. Way too much head, way to little flavor and not nearly enough of an aroma to make this beer a regular in my fridge.

Bottled (6.5%). Hazy amber, brief head. Dusty nose. Citric and fruity. Dry with clean mouthfeel and light body. Primitive malt character, followed by lemony acidity. Low bitterness.

Far too much sourness and carbonation. Sweet wet malt oozes from the beginning. The bottle is the best part of the deal. A little Stonehenge action.

Just odd. Medium amber, hazy, with a huge head. Faint sourness on the aroma made me think I may have a bad bottle. Flavor was of sweat and dirt, and reminded me distinctly of a really over the top corked bottle of wine. TCH, is that the compound? Can’t remember. Some caramel as well. In any case, I was torn between weather or not this was a bad bottle, or if the strange off flavors were intentional. In the end, I decided that this was what they were actually trying for. Yikes.