Sarasota Brewing Sequoia Amber Lager

Tap at brewpub. Pours amber, beige head. Aroma is malty, some light caramel and light hops. Flavor, roasted malts, caramel, light bread mouthfeel with a nice hoppy finish.

Light amber. Caramel nose with a hint of breadcrust. Pleasant fruity hop overtop of toasty amber malts and caramel.

At brewpub. Clear amber with little white head. Caramel malt aromas with a smattering of Cascade-like hops, a balanced smell. Quaffable mouthfeel. Body is mainly sweet and caramelly with a bready character. Slightly spicy in finish.

Pours clear deep gold with off white head. Odd looking beer for an amber. The aroma is roasty malts, 90L crystal malts and some really faint caramel. The taste is nice and amber-like with rich roasty malts, a little bit of malt astringency mixing with more lightly roasted malts. All this maltiness slowly turns into Munich grainy type malts along with mild pine hoppiness and faint floral hops as the finish approaches. The hop bitterness does grow some into the finish and lingers around with sweet and roasted maltiness.

Draft at Florida Brewers Guild Beer Fest 2008. Full rating updated as soon as I am more coherent.

Good to see these folks doing lagers, too. Tasted March 2005 @ Brewery--Poured a rich burnt amber body. Sweet mildly sticky nose (hints of caramel). Mild hops presence, quite quaffable, but lacked a lot in the finish.

On tap @ the Brewery: Pours a golden amber in color with an off-white head. Aroma is malty and hoppy with hints of caramel and citrus. Flavor brought out the citrus in the hops leaving a slight hint of caramel in the sweet finish. Easy drinking and good!

I live near the Sarasota community, so it was nice to have sometihng from a local brewey. A tasty malts with nice malts that has a strong presence of hops.