Colleen's Amber Ale
Hog’s Head Brewing Company
- From:
- Hog’s Head Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.29 | pDev: 11.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 20, 2014
- Added:
- Oct 31, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev +10.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
20oz imperial pint at the new Sherlock Holmes Campus location (RIP Avenue Pizza).
This beer appears a slightly glassy, medium orange brick amber colour, with one finger of thinly foamy, mostly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a few specks of fading islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of fruity caramel malt - apple, pear, and honeydew - a bit of bready yeast, cider, and weak earthy, weedy hops. The taste is bready, sort of pastry-tinged caramel malt, more mildly tart orchard drupe fruit, a hint of flinty hard water, and an earthy, wet leafiness.
The bubbles are a tad peppy, and tingly on the upper palate, the body on the wan side of medium weight, and generally smooth, with a soft stickiness. It finishes off-dry, the wet breadiness and edgy stone fruit still holding strong.
An adequate amber ale, with a certain robust character that lifts it above the usual dreck. However, the lack of interesting hop bitterness keeps this hovering just there, unable to make the leap to craft stardom. That, and the moderately unchecked sweetness, while not an overt issue with the single serving, would certainly become one upon repeated rounds.
Oct 31, 2013This beer appears a slightly glassy, medium orange brick amber colour, with one finger of thinly foamy, mostly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a few specks of fading islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of fruity caramel malt - apple, pear, and honeydew - a bit of bready yeast, cider, and weak earthy, weedy hops. The taste is bready, sort of pastry-tinged caramel malt, more mildly tart orchard drupe fruit, a hint of flinty hard water, and an earthy, wet leafiness.
The bubbles are a tad peppy, and tingly on the upper palate, the body on the wan side of medium weight, and generally smooth, with a soft stickiness. It finishes off-dry, the wet breadiness and edgy stone fruit still holding strong.
An adequate amber ale, with a certain robust character that lifts it above the usual dreck. However, the lack of interesting hop bitterness keeps this hovering just there, unable to make the leap to craft stardom. That, and the moderately unchecked sweetness, while not an overt issue with the single serving, would certainly become one upon repeated rounds.
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