Sleeman Amber Ale

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: Amber Ale
Guelph, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Meilleure que la moyenne des amber ale. L’équilibre caramel/amertume est meilleur que dans plusieurs rousse comme la Keith mais pas aussi bien que celui de la Boréale. Un peu petillant pour mon goût. Rien de special mais c’est correct dans un bar.

Pours an amber color with a small dense off-white head, very clean and a huge amount of carbonation. Light citrus hops, strong floral, modest caramel, mild toasted malt late and some light metallic hints late. Toasted malt, smooth caramel early, smooth floral and sweet fruity apple, grape and orange middle, mild grainy and light metallic ending round out the flavors. Body is actually a decent density with a light dryness at the end and a slight fizzy feeling from the large amount of carbonation. Overall not a bad brew if you had it available around you. Sleeman has switched to clear bottles from the old classic brown bottles so I could see some variation of flavors floating around. Solid sweetness from the malt and hope really make this a pretty decent brew to drink.

Sleeman Brewing & Malting Company, Ltd.--Original Dark 50* Amber Ale--2006 Release--11.5 oz. Bottle--5.50% ABV--20 IBU’s? (3.45 / 5.0)--Amber Ale. Mild head. Sediment hint. Clear rich amber color. Mild fruit hop front. Smooth fresh mellow caramel fruit ester body. Slightly tangy crisp refreshing mild hop spice end. Mild sweet fruit Amber. Sampled 5/24/2006.

Poured out a nice clear mid-range brown with an off white bubbly crown and consistently left minimal ropy lacing. The aroma was weak but for a widely available beer its just different enough to appeal to someone venturing out from the mass produced sort. Slight caramel, light caramel and roasted malts with grains. The taste is weak caramel that is blended near equal to the hops. Some sweetness. It doesn’t come across all that smooth with a sort of fluffy carbonation feel and it was more bitter than I had expected from a Sleemans product (cool). Gets ’er done but is nowhere near the flavour factories on the west coast US pumping out ambers that water the mouth.

Bottle. Amber pour. No head. Aroma is citrus and some mild hops. Flavor is water. Very thin and poor.

Bottle: Poured an amber color, not much head. The aroma was non existent. Smelled like a beer. The flavor wasn’t much better, no character or body or taste. Overall, weak.

Bottle: Amber color,weal heading, weal lace, no off tastes. Weak mouth feel, some fruits and stale malt presence over attenuated hopping, fast finish... clean and fizzy. A dollar beer tarted up in a premium package...but not premium taste.

Decent Flavour. Slightly sweet malt flavour. Overall its an okay beer and I would probably get this one again.