Great River Copper Ale

Brewed by Great River Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Davenport, Iowa USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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16oz can. orangey/copper color, clear and a bit fizzy. thin almond-colored head. aroma is bright with grassy notes and bready malts. flavor has a decent earthiness and a balanced malt and hop profile. notes of caramel in the finish and aftertaste. simple but a bit better than I expected.

Can courtesy of graniteskunk. Pours copper with a thin white head. Smells of caramel, some sweet undertones. Tastes of earth, caramel, some sweet malty hints.

Copperish color. Aroma is buttery, caramelly and hoppy. Weird to say the least. Without the butter flavor we might have a winner. But hops, butter and caramel malt dont make for too good a beer.

Can thanks (DalzAle). Pours clear amber with a soapy head that fades to a collar. Aroma is malt and slight vegteble with a noticable metallic scent. Taste is refreshing and malty with a faint hops. Palate is chaulky and dry.

Got this at our hotel up the street from the GRB. Poured with an average sized, thick, creamy, long lasting, light tan colored head and good lace. Color is a clear medium amber with lots of bubble trails. Aroma is malt, caramel, a little hops. Flavor is similar with bitterness up front yielding to a touch of sweetness in the fin. Body is good and so is carbonation. Finish is like flavor and has about average length for a beer of this style.. Not a bad brew. I’m looking forward to the 483 PA.

Can. Light orange pour, lasting good carbonation and an aroma of light fruity hops. Flavor is bitter metaillic caramel, some sweet nuts and a little vegetal on the aftertaste. Not bad.

Malts and bread in the aroma while the appearance is gold-orange. The flavor is slightly spicy, malty and a hint of cookies. I’m not sure on the style of this, its sort of hard to describe, but a decent ale none the less.

6/13/11. On tap at the Bier Stube in Moline, IL. The aroma is huge butterscotchy diacetyl... with a touch of bitter malt and hop in there. Slightly better flavor that hits a touch better than the aroma. Decent roasted malt presence with caramel and a slight earthy hop presence, but the diacetyl kills it. Bleh.

On tap at brewpub, did not take detailed notes while visiting, I did write down clear dark amber/copper with thin head, aroma had decent hop presence but didn’t blow me away. I will need to try this one again!