 wcampbell (387), Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Mar 17, 2008
Pretty good, but not too much going on here. Standard amber ale beer. Toasty, caramel malt flavor. A few hops to it. Highly drinkable. Medium bodied and lightly carbonated.
BrewDad (1553), Olympia, Washington, USA
Jul 16, 2008 12oz Bottle - Trader Joes - Tacoma, WA
Aroma – Nice malt nose with a decent amount of hops.
Appearance – Amber in color, Nice head and clear.
Flavor – Well balanced beer this was a very easy to drink amber ale. Faint spice and very light in the hops.
Palate – Nice Mouthfeel, Decent texture with a good dry finish.
Overall – A very nice easy to drink amber ale. Nothing to special about this beer.
stefanje (483), (Santee) San Diego, California, USA
Jul 10, 2008 12 oz Bottle from Trader Joes. Pours a translucent amber-copper color with a small off-white head that rapidly faded.
The aroma is weak with sweet lightly roasted malts and a bit of caramel. The flavor, what little there is, has sweet caramel, sweet malts, a touch of black licorice and the barest trace of hops. The mouthfeel is a bit syrupy and oily. The finish is medium in duration with lingering metallic licorice. Overall: If Drakes Expedition and GF Hop head Red are the standards for an amber ale then this one falls way, way short.
cazort (325), San Diego, California, USA
Jul 6, 2008 (Bottle) At its best, a run-of-the mill beer. Arguably worse than average. Aroma more malty and slightly caramely than anything else; only a hint of hops. When you start drinking it, the hops become a little more present...there’s a sort of weak aroma of the sort that you have in an India pale ale...but really toned down...a hint of caraway emerges. The dominant character of this beer though is slightly sweet malt...not particularly complex or coarse...too smooth. There’s little carbonation, little head when you pour it, and little bite to the texture. Too heavy to be refreshing. Drinkable, but not outstanding. I am not impressed. This beer has a lot of the worst qualities of an amber ale and the only redeeming qualities it has are that it is not like every other bad amber ale.
The_Captain (251), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
Jun 9, 2008 Bottle from Trader Joes. Amber pour with off white head. Hints of caramel and malts which keep on into the pallet. Good taste, rather mild and middle of the road.
BigMook (6), tacoma, Washington, USA
does not count  Jun 3, 2008 Tastes like I put some black licorice, caramel, splenda and rum into a blender and after having mixed I poured it into a glass and added some diet coke for fizz.
This beer is not good, I am drinking it because I paid six bucks for it. But I would dump it out if I had brewed it myself.
Trader Joes has some goog grub, but thier beer, at least from what I have tried, is just plain lousy.
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