Middle Ages Grail Ale

Re-Rate 6/15/02. Nice ruby color with a spicy/pepprery nose and generous head. Well balanced with a good dose of malty sweetness. A fine beer from an excellent brewery. Original: A decent ale with a good malty taste and a fine head.

Grail Ale is an amber ale by style, but with the use of Ringwood it is a very distinctive one. This beer has lots of great sweet malty and hoppy flavors, as well as earthy and buttery aromas and flavors from the use of Ringwood. Grail Ale pours to a beautiful, slightly hazy, deep amber color with a thick and creamy white head, and a soft to moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is very fragrant with aromas of zesty and citric hop aromas, married with some earthy/yeasty aromas, and a nice underpinning of caramel malt aromas. The palate is firm, with lots of good pale and caramel malt flavors, with a back drop of estery fruit, and notes of butter scotch. Grail Ale finishes with more malt, fruit, and lightly buttery notes up front, then ends with a nice burst of citric hop bitterness that ties this beer all together. I found Grail Ale to be an outstanding, very flavorful amber ale.

This brew has a very nice flavor, nice color too. I’d drink this all the time - a good every day "go to" beer. My favorite of the five Middle Ages brews that I’ve had so far.

I found the aroma of this beer much more pleasing that most other raters. Hints of fig stood out to me. The flavor was definitely malty with only a very mild hopping that was overall bland. Not a bad beer but nothing too impressive

Not a whole lot of aroma. I really like the unique flavor of this brew - sort of peppery - but very smooth. I’d say this deserves to be drank from a grail, just maybe not a holy one.