San Marcos Amber Ale

Brewed by San Marcos Brewery & Grill
Style: Amber Ale
San Marcos, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Pours amber in color with an off-white head. Toffee, bread, and toasted malt aromas. Lightly herbal in terms of the hop character with a mild yeast character and some fruit notes. Tastes of sweet toasted malt, toffee, and bread. Very light hop character, mostly some herbal and floral notes with a mild bitterness.

A clear amber/light brown colored beer, with a light beige head. The aroma of fruits and some hop. The taste of flat fruit and watery. A little bitter. It seems to be a cough syrup. The aftertaste some sweet and some bitter.

A toasty amber ale. It doesn’t bring much else to the table. It is exactly what they found in their first homebrew booklet.

Draft. An amber beer with a thin lazing tan head. The aroma has notes of malt as well as lighter notes of butter. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, butter, and lots of caramel, leading to a dry and bitter finish.

Clear amber with a medium beige head. Aroma had toasted malt, caramel and grassy hops. Flavour was dry and hoppy with hints of pine and fruit. Finished dry and bitter.

Clear amber color/ white head. Mild caramel malty aromas. medium body. Lightly sweet cardboard, caramel flavors, lightly bitter finish.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Roasted and toffee aroma, hint of butter. Toffee caramel and roasted malt flavours with alight butterish note. Decent bitterness in the finish. Lasting toffee and butterish impression.

On tap. Clear amber golden with an off-white head. Sweetish caramel in the nose. Medium body, nuts and burned caramel with a dry and hoppy finish. 070709

Sample at the brewpub. This beer pours a clear orange-amber color with a thin light beige head that recedes steadily. Spotty lacing. The aroma is of caramel and earthy malt. Light to medium body with a sweet malty character. Some caramel and hops are present too. The finish is charred malt with a lightly bitter malt aftertaste that does not last. Just average overall.

On tap at SM Brewery--Poured a stellar amber-chestnut body with a medium white head. Faint malty, traditional English/Scottish style appeal. Dry, crisp, earthy flavor. A little thin and bland in the finish.