Grays Rathskeller Amber Ale

Brewed by Grays Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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12 ounce bottle from Woodmans West Madison. Pours a clear amber color with a large foamy white head. Below average head retention and lacing. Aroma of toasted malts and floral hops with a faintly soapy note. The taste is caramel, toasty notes and a bitter hop finish. Medium bodied.

This beer is really pretty decent, but still nothing much to it. I like some more complexity.

Pour from a 12 oz bottle. Darker amber brew with thinning offwhite head. Aroma of caramel malts with a pleasant earthy overtone. Taste is mild to moderate caramelt malts at the start blending into a light but somewhat complex hoppiness - some earth overtone, spice, grass, and general bitter on the back of the tongue. Palate is a bit thin for an amber but is bolstered by relatively active carbonation. Overall a solid brew that has some distincitve features.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I believe this also goes by the name "Speakeasy Ale" at certain locations, like Janesville’s The Speakeasy Lounge. Was good.

On tap, pours a dark amber with a nice off white head, and that’s the best part, aroma and flavor is extremely bland and boring, there is a distinct metal finish mixed in with light malt, pass.

It’s drinkable, but there isn’t much flavor there. Vaguely malty is right. I wouldn’t pour it out, but also wouldn’t choose it.

Pours orange with white head, aroma is faint caramel. Taste up front is a bit of sweet bready and caramel malt with a watery finish.

Poured from the bottle to a cloudy amber-brown hue with thin off white head that disipated quickly and left no lacing. Nose was very faint, but what I could detect was a mix of hoppy fruit (apples) and malty chocolate. Mouthfeel was on the the thin side with little carbonation or tingle. Taste was more aaccentuated than the nose, as it picked up the fruit and chocolate, which then led to a somewhat watery, short finish. Not terrible, but won’t go out of my way to drink again.

Dark red-brown pour with tan head. Aroma of caramel malt. Flavor of malt, little nutty, slight dry finish.

Clear, almost ruby amber with a large beige head, fading to a film. Simple malt aroma with a bit of cider to it. Flavor weak, vaguely malty, not much there in the beginning, a bit of wort and tea in the middle, some cidery elements and a bit of bitterness develop towards the finish. Thin body, somewhat carbonated.