Great Divide Ridgeline Amber Ale (Arapahoe Amber)

Formerly brewed at Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Bottle> Pours a nice copper color. Light head. Tastes of malt with a bit of hops. The malt seems to push down the flavor of the hops but they are there albeit subdued. Finishes clean and smooth, perhaps a bit bitter.

12 oz bottle pours a glowing hazy amber with a nice off white head that leaves some lacing in my glass. Bready, fruity aromas, sweet peach, apricot and caramel flavors. Medium bodied with a soft and creamy mouthfeel, finishes on the sweet side, I really like this one, I could easily down a few of these in one sitting.

Pleasant ruby color with an adequate, frothy, light tan head. Aroma is very malty with some nuttiness and butteriness and some dark fruit. Flavor is toasted malts and caramel, still a little buttery; dry in the middle with more alcohol presence than expected for only 5.3%; lightly hoppy through the finish along with the sugary sweetness that was present the whole time. Smooth yet bubbly, fairly thick and barely sticky. Overall it’s not bad; drinkable and far from outstanding, but fairly unique.

Chill hazed light coppery gold color with a thin, yet firm crown of dusted yellow. Keeps a good skim once it subsides and the lace sheets in thick foamy rings. Aroma is malty semi-sweet with nuances of fruits, but mostly caramel hard candies coated in a nutty butterness. Clean, toastedly touched, woodish, and respectably wafty. Flavors are nearly the same as what the smell delivers with a semi-sweet caramel malt front thats a smidgeon apricot/orange fruityish with a mild toasted grain backing. Dry middle area builds with a leafy hop tongue scraping fading into a finish of airy leafy hoppyness slipping into some woody hints thats clean and quick with dry plain nuttyness touching the ends. Builds late past the finish with some slight chewy caramel leftovers. Nothing overly substantial though. Stays clean but perhaps a bit low on any real character for my tastes yet keeps an interesting complexity. Feel is a bit shy of a medium body, seems empty in a good portion of its front and middle. Gradually building with a slightly dryer edge just past midway adding an unusual astringent dry grab for just a stint as the leafy hops take controll the rest of the duration into the finish. A bit more body ensues within the finish late. A fairly solid "amber", but perhaps a little lower on the scale of the other GD offerings. Not sure why its listed as Scottish though?

smells like burnt peanutbutter and malt. one finger off white head atop a dark copper body. mouth feel is dry and a little creamy. taste is nutty with a little hops. the burnt peanutbutter is a huge turn off. difficult to drink. definatly middle of the road.

Pours a pretty amber with a little off-white head. Aroma is malty, woodsy. Taste is slightly smoky, and reminds me of wood. Not a bad beer. In the middle of the pack.

nice copper color w/ thing quickly dissapating off white head. Big malt nose w/ the head then fades into a light sweet nutty aroma. palate a little acidic medium body fairly avg. Tastes very weak some malty some carmel.. not much of anything else, really a lack of flavor.

12 oz bottle-sampled in my motel room in Pueblo, CO during the april 10 blizzard. While watching the plows/road crews block off I-25 from my window, i poured this beer from its bottle-pours a copper hue with an off-white head. malty, carmely aroma with notes of cardboard. fizzy mothfeal and not much flavors to talk about. some caramel malts and thats about it. flavors have no presence and direction. sorry GD