Crop Circle Beer

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: Amber Ale
Patchogue, New York USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

A very strange brew, this one is. Really beautiful amber pour, nice thick head, and smells really sweet and malty and also carries hints of dark fruit. Very sweet, almost fruity with lots of malt as well. Pretty easy drinking brew, but not something I would seek out to drink. Glad I got to try yet another otherwise unattainable beer.

12oz Bottle. Noses light honey and stone ground mustard. Color of blended campari and coke, with a rim of off-white. Hazed. Initially, a really heavy set flavor to the beer, vinous in halloween candy and christmas chocolates. Weird spices originating from yeast off-flavors. Vague vanilla and butter. Caramels. Unique, but ends up tasting dirty and unclean. Finishes on nuts and toast. Interesting, but not really all that right. I can enjoy a good amber ale, but this one is all over the map.

Deep orange/amber with a small, yet lasting off-white head. Caramel aroma. Lightly sweet with a touch of bitterness. Overall, thin and boring.

This beer had a amber body and a strong caramel aroma and flavor. The flavor also had a bit of a bitter finish.

Clear copper/amber color with a bit of head. Strong caramel taste and a bit of that unique flavor that you can only really find in an amber ale. From other descriptions I would have to conclude that it is a mix of raisin, honey and gingersnap, however I would not have put that together by myself as this beer, and indeed all well done amber ales, have a very unique flavor.

UPDATED: JUN 7, 2008 This is supposedly brewed with barley from England’s notorious "crop circle" fields. Cool label that suggests both medieval and space age mystery. Dark with a foamy head. Rich flavor that is close to being a stout - coffee, roasted grains, spices, and sweet malt. You can definitely taste the alien influence - no doubt the exhaust from their flying saucers found its way into this brew.

Bottle: Amber pour with a bubbly tan fading head. Spicy/sweet malt aroma, with some fruity hints. Raisins, cinnamon, light gingerbread, decent aroma. More aromatic than flavorful. The body is slightly watery, but has a decent malt flavor. Roasty upfront with light gingersnap cookie hints & subtle dark fruits. Finish is roasted and has a mild spicy bitterness. A decent Amber Ale.

Bottle. High white creamy and lasting head. Clear yellow body. Barley malt aroma. Sweet, smooth and mild barley malt flavor without much hops bitterness, carbonation or aftertaste. The malt aftertaste is there but generally this beer will soon be forgotten.