Fischer Amber

Brewed by Heineken (France)
Style: Amber Ale
Schiltigheim, Alsace, France

Good head. Clear gold amber. Sweet caramel and grainy malt. Earthy, slightlty peppery hops. Thin and crisp. In the style of a macro but better.

Huge white, meringue-like head. Hazy amber-brown body with orange hues. Aroma is wet-hay, grass, ripe red plums. Taste is a wet lager, watery, could use carbonation. Caramel is readily present. Palate is boring. Sampled from a rather large bottle, purchased at Wegmans in Fairfax, VA.

From a 500 ml swing top bottle, this poured a very clear amber with nice white head and light lacing. Nose of light malts and some floral hops. Medium mouthfeel. Flavor has some light nuts and the finish is slightly bitter. Drinkable.

2008 Bottle - Small white head, light amber colour, flavour is smooth malt, bread and slight bitterness...not too much going on, decent, but I feel that most of the price went to packaging...

From a 22 ounce flip top bottle purchased at By The Bottle in Vancouver, WA--Poured a frothy white-headed copper-golden-amber clear body. Metallic nose with hints of mild earthy malts. Thin, but well rounded mouthfeel. Perhaps this beer didn’t travel well, because it is obvious that it is a medium-bodied, easy drinking, well-balanced brew. Thin, sessionable, creamy, nutty, and smooth. Finished with some stale, yet prevalent hop character. I bet on tap at the source it is much better.

I’ve been drinking Amber off and on for 20 years. What it may lack in exquisite taste and character, it makes up for in consistency. It tastes the same as the first time I tried it. Pours a golden amber color with a thick rocky white head that diminishes eventually, but still provides lacing. The hoppy aroma is bitter and weed-like, yet not unpleasant. The taste is sweet roasted malt along with caramel and a pronounced sour bitterness. Aftertaste is almost like having chewed an aspirin. Having said all that, I still think it’s pretty decent, just odd.

Bottle. Amber pour with a white head. Aroma is a mild european hop scent with some underlying fruit. Flavor is week, some sweet malt and a mildly bitter finish.

Brown bottle stored in a beer cooler away from light, there is a date code but I can’t decipher it so I’m assuming this should still be within the freshness time frame. I’d like to say this is old and that’s why it stinks, but honestly I believe it’s just a bad beer to begin with. Grassy aroma with a residual sweetness and a hint of toffee. Clear light amber pour, very light with a lasting, thin white head and a layer or two of lacing. Thin and watery with a horrible aftertaste of plastic and cardboard. Flavor is thin with a very faint caramel quality that is soon masked by that nasty aftertaste. This was a rough one to finish.