Wynkoop RailYard Ale

Brewed by Wynkoop Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Draft at Wynkoop. Copper body. Nose is hoppy, spicy, some fruit notes and caramel. Taste is more caramel, light fruit notes, spices, light hops, and a hint of toffee. Body is medium with moderate carbonation. Finishes with more hops, semi-sweet malts, light spices, and fruit notes.

Copper, with not much head. Smells malty, with a slight peppery hop aroma in the finish. Flavor is clean malt, with a crisp but unobtrusive hop bite. Not overly sweet, not overly hoppy. Probably a pretty decent session ale.

Tap @ Wynkoop: Poured a slightly hazed copper color with an off-white head and some nice lacing. The aroma was of caramel mlat and some toasty notes. The aroma was on the light side. Caramel and nutty flavor with some earthy hops and citrus rind bitterness on the finish.

Tap at Wynkoop. Pours a translucent golden amber medium creamy off white lacing head. Aroma of caramel, fruits and citrus. Flavor of fruity notes, caramel, pine, citrus sweet.

Picked up a can of this in a mix-a-six - what do you get when you brew an OFest with ale yeast? - apparently, you get an amber ale, because that’s what this tastes like - not a bad amber ale, though, just a wee bit boring, as most amber ales tend to be - some bready malt and cereal grains eventually make way for some drier malt character that compliments the eventual hop bite at the end - refreshing, medium-bodied - fairly clean - no discernible flaws; it’s just boring.

On tap, pours hazy reddish with white head. Aroma has notes of caramel, toffee, slight touch of grass, spice, touch of earth and biscuit notes as well. Taste is a bit simple but tasty overall with notes of caramel, toffee, some spice and grass notes, finishing fairly sweet, slightly dry.

On draft at Wynkoop. Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Nose is sweet malt, and earthy/ grassy hops. Flavor is similar- sweet malt and some hops. Somewhat balanced medium-bodied ale.

Can sample as a precursor to Dogbrick’s Eurostash II tasting on 12/12/09. Clear amber pour with a medium beige head. Nose of malt and urine. Malty, grainy and plasticky flavor.

Tap @ Wynkoop, Denver. Pours warm deep orange golden, no head. Aroma of malt, flowery, grassy hops, light fruity. Taste is malt, caramel, grass, ripe apples, plastic. Medium body, no carbonation. Feels dead in my mouth. 040312
Earlier Rating: 3/26/2011 Total Score: 3.2
Tap @ the brewpub. Pours cobber golden with a shortlived white head. Aroma of malt, nuts, caramel. Taste is caramel malt, sweet fruit, floral hops. Medium body, soft carbonation. 030311

Draught at the brewpub. Clear orange color with thin white head that left a bit of lace. Light spicy aroma with a touch of biscuity malt. Flavor was similar with a touch of dried fruit. Subdued bitter finish.