bottle. Bottled 09/21/01. Aroma: BBQ potato chips, malt, and a bit of caramel. The aroma makes me a little apprehensive about how this is going to taste. Appearance: Very dark red, almost bordering on brown. No head to speak of. Flavor: There is a little hickory smokiness, but the main flavor is malt roastiness. A little bit of caramel flavor...and not much else. Flavors are weak. Palate: Medium-light bodied and watery. Carbonation seemed a little low, as well. Overall: Not good. I’m hoping the fact that this bottle is a couple years old has something to do with it. Weak, watery, and without distinction.

tap at RFD. more roast than smoke...very much not a rauchbier style, which is what i was expecting. black, slight head. medium body, malty flavors balanced mostly by acrid roast. pretty mediocre.

Dark redish brown hazy with a thin head. The aroma is malty with a bit of caramel and a smaller bit of smoked and an even smaller bit hickory, so small in fact, I dont smell it. The flavor of this is also just not good. It lacks anything consistent to make a taste interesting and has a funny aftertaste. The only other smoked ale Ive really has was Rouge’s....which was like 8 years out of date. And it wasnt much worse, it even smelled better.

The concept of a smoked american amber ale sounds good. Too bad this beer does not deliver what its name promises. Watery think weak and a little metallic. Not the best beer I've ever had. Flavor evaporates. which is good and bad.

Medium-brown, medium head, clear. Smoked sausage aroma is quite nice; flavor on the other hand is quite dull. Smoke present all the way through, but thin and bland and the smoky bitterness isn’t counterbalanced by much of anything. Fairly watery; not OCs worst, but I’m really glad I got just one bottle for under $1.50; I don’t feel TOO ripped off.