Jaxons Cactus Jack Amber Ale

Brewed by Jaxons Restaurant & Brewing Co.
Style: Amber Ale
El Paso, Texas USA

20oz, draft. Color was a somewhat deep red for an amber. light aroma. taste was unexceptional but good.

Sample @ Jaxons airway location. Good medium sweet fruity aroma and flavor. For an amber ale good blended beer. Refreshes the palate on a hot day. Amber body with off white head. Would of had a full pint if not for a long drive home ahead of the wife and I.

Tap @ brewpub:.Clear light amber with a little off-white head. There is a sweet brown sugar aroma. But the problem is that is way too sweer for an amber ale.

The Cactus Jack is light amber, tending even more toward red, with a quickly dissipating white head. There’s an almost caramely sweetness, a little spice, and only slight hoppiness. It’s a lot lighter than the Chihuahua Brown Ale, but still not a bad little beer. The batch at the Airway location was way better than the one at Remcon.

On draught at the brewpub. Listed as 4.5%. Amber in color with a mild malty sweetness and even dry/sweet flavor balance. Very "Dos Equis-like". A nice rendition.

Copper body that didn’t seem amber at all and a dusty white head. Sweet crystal malt aroma with moderate diacetyl. Flavor is medium sweet with lots of iced tea flavor and a bland finish. My notion of an amber would have some darker malt character and more spicy hop presence. This has little of either.

Draught at Jaxons Restaurant & Brewing Co., El Paso, Texas.
Hazy amber body, fine off-white head. Rather weak aroma of sweet malt and toffee. Spices, malt and hops in the flavor, flower and caramel notes also. Nice but quite thin.

Hazy orange in color with an eggshell head. Sweet, slightly adjunct aroma. Not a bad beer, a bit overhopped though, I expect some more maltiness in a beer that calls itself an amber.