Tröegs HopBack Amber Ale

Brewed by Tröegs Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Hershey, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Clear amber thick white head not much aroma but tasty crisp hops very refreshing. Served at gabf 2012.

Beer engine pull at the Khyber. Cloudy orange brown pour with a big foamy head. Bitter fruity floral hop flavors. Pinecones. Passionfruit. Grapefruit pith. Wildflowers. Toasted wheat bread. Medium-light malt. Watery body, but that could just be the cask talking. Decent dry session beer.

Adequate flavor. Little heavy on the bitter but not overpowering. Decent flavor but I would not go out of my way to drink.

Aroma is light pine and an undercurrent of malts. The flavor is grapefruit hops, mildly sweet malts and a long and medium bitter finish.

Pours clear amber, thick white lacing. Light earthy hop on the nose. Nicely balanced palate is slightly more hoppy than malty. Quite tasty.

Pours copper with off white head. Aroma is bread, hops. Taste slight sweetness, lightly spice, good hop bitterness

From bottle, pours a dark Orange/amber colour with a thin head that leaves the side of the glass as it dissipates. Strong hop profile on the nose. Pine, hints of citrus. Well balanced flavour initial fruity bitterness with some lightly toasted malts in the background. Not extensive aftertaste and slightly thin mouthfeel however these don’t detract to much from a fine beer.

Had on tap. Poured a clear clear dark amber with a one finger off-white head. Aroma of piny hops with a little bit of fruit, along with a decent dose of malt. Flavor had pine and citrus up front from the hops, followed by a moderate bitterness and plenty of malt to balance out the hops. Caramel and roasted malt nicely complimented the fruitiness and bitterness from the hops. Mouthfeel was a little thin which detracts from the beer quite a bit. Overall, a delicious amber that is somewhat hampered by mouthfeel. It seems like everything is there then all of a sudden, mouthfeel just drops off into a watery nothingness. That aside, I would most definitely seek this out.

Bottle shared at a tasting at LiBira pub. Pours brown to orange with a pale orange head, aroma of orange, honey, malt and vanilla, flavor is bitter and dry with some tangerine and grapefruit juice, medium bodied

Bready with a bit of carmel. Hoppy finish on the back end. Decent stuff. Refreshing.