The Bruery Humulus Ambre

Draught at The Bruery’s anniversary. Amber color with an off-white head. Sticky, dank hop aroma with pine resin and grapefruit. Straight-up west coast IPA. Quite hoppy in a piney fashion, with light toasty malt. Finishes with lasting bitterness. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Very much like a hoppy pale ale/IPA, but with a slightly different character than is typical, you might even say Belgian-influenced, but it doesn’t jump out at you. The Bruery can definitely do hoppy beer. Now I want a Belgian DIPA.

Tap at Stone Bistro. Pours amber/orange, white head. Aroma is hoppy, light spices and herbal notes. Taste, some funk? phenolic / Belgian yeast, herbal hops with thin malt. Crisp finish.

Draft at The Gingerman NYC. Poured a clear dark orange/mber color. The head was thin and off white. The aroma was subdued overall with only a hint of raisin. Light bodied, crisp mouth feel. Bone dry with mild bitterness. Very earthy with notes of soda water, black tea, minerals/wet stone, black pepper and green pepper. Didn’t get much in the way of American hops listed in the description. Carbonation was on the higher end of the spectrum. Not to die for, but decent.

On tap at Blind Tiger. I seemed to have enjoyed this more than other people. Amber in color with a medium off white head. Aroma of fresh, resinous hops- citrus, some pine, and some light belgian yeast suggestions. Taste has a good deal of hops- fresh citrus, somewhat earthy and resinous with some mild musty and estery belgian yeast. Bitterness got strong in the finish.

On tap at Gingerman. Pours a nice clear amber with a foamy lasting light beige head. Aroma is nicely spicy with belgian yeast, phenolic, light plastic, green , slight grass with some nice hoppy fruitiness as well- mango- slight amarillo but not crazy strong. Flavor is a bit muted out especially with the hops- moderate pale and caramel malts, dry toasty character and a thin boring finish and mouthfeel and almsot an astringent bitterness that didnt seem to work. Everything kind of went downhill for me after the appearance and aroma.

Tap at Toronado SD. Great caramel red color. Nose is light Xmas spice and cinnamon sugar. Taste is nothing. I tasted nothing except malt skin and water. Couldn’t believe that the bartenders were advocating it so hard. Then after thinking about it... I absolutely could.

ON tap at Toronado. Golden light brown with a small white head. Big hoppy aroma, bitter hoppy taste, strong citrus taste, and a dry mouth feel and finish. Not bad.

Tap @ Stone. Pours a nice medium amber color with a good sized off white head that left great lacing. A nicely hopped earthy nose with a touch of yeast funk. Flavor was lightly hopped with a good amount of toasted malt, resin, and a bit of yeast.