Naughty Amber
Fat Unicorn Brewery
- From:
- Fat Unicorn Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.63 | pDev: 3.31%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 22, 2018
- Added:
- Aug 28, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.78/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Had on tap at the Westlake Grill in Red Deer, AB. A nice, well-rounded amber ale that's not going to get enough love because it goes for balance over hop aggression.
Which isn't to say it isn't hoppy, but there's a certain elegance to its hop profile--fruity, but only somewhat citrus. Hints of (am I hallucinating?) stone fruits, and maybe berries, are here in bigger form, counterbalanced with a bit of the herbal/piney/vegetal character. A nice malt backbone. Full-bodied, but great creamy texture and very drinkable. Almost like a crafty, better balanced Rickard's Red (and mercifully, no brewer's caramel here to make things unpalatably sticky-sweet).
In some ways, you might say this beer belongs to an earlier era in craft brewing--it's balanced, not too hoppy, accessible. And I suspect some will poo-poo it for that. But a good beer is a good beer, and I am a fan.
May 17, 2016Which isn't to say it isn't hoppy, but there's a certain elegance to its hop profile--fruity, but only somewhat citrus. Hints of (am I hallucinating?) stone fruits, and maybe berries, are here in bigger form, counterbalanced with a bit of the herbal/piney/vegetal character. A nice malt backbone. Full-bodied, but great creamy texture and very drinkable. Almost like a crafty, better balanced Rickard's Red (and mercifully, no brewer's caramel here to make things unpalatably sticky-sweet).
In some ways, you might say this beer belongs to an earlier era in craft brewing--it's balanced, not too hoppy, accessible. And I suspect some will poo-poo it for that. But a good beer is a good beer, and I am a fan.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.67/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Well, now. First Edgerton, now Plamondon. Relaxed brewing laws are allowing production in all manner of Alberta communities, and I'm digging it. This is a decent looking brew - off-hazy copper with a finger of tawny foam that lingers. The nose is sweetish - reminiscent of a Belgian tripel, but not quite there. The flavour is pleasantly layered - bready malt, a bit of pepper, and orchard stone fruit. Overall, I'm pleasantly surprised with this amber. I would nott hesitate to order this one again and again.
Feb 21, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, the second initial retail offering from this pretty new-seeming Alberta brewery that appears to embody the local definition of 'farmhouse' production. From the labels alone, I think I greatly prefer Naughty Amber to the Last Call Blonde - just sayin'.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some hanging sudsy arched lace around the glass as things quickly and evenly fade away.
It smells of semi-sweet, pastry-adjacent caramel malt, a bit of syrupy pear fruitiness, sugary citrus, and plain leafy, earthy, and hay-like hop bitters. The taste is grainy, rather sweet caramel/toffee malt, muddled black orchard fruit flesh, understated orange and red grapefruit pith, and more earthy, leafy, and weedy hoppiness.
The bubbles are decently active in their at times fizzy, but mostly just playfully frothy manner, the body a solid middleweight, and fairly smooth, a certain (yet hard to pinpoint its origin) hoppy acridity taking things down a notch here. It finishes still pretty sweet, the caramel/toffee character duly in charge, with the hops meekly chipping away, unaware of their pending doom.
I can't say that this amber (ale) is all that naughty, but she is undeniably sweet, which is maybe her siren call, something to pull us dullards in, and then plonk the hammer down. The problem is, I see no proverbial other shoe dropping here, just a plain, if well-rendered offering, through and through. And I suppose that there ain't nothing wrong with that - sorry, Miss (at least for the double negative).
Aug 30, 2015This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves some hanging sudsy arched lace around the glass as things quickly and evenly fade away.
It smells of semi-sweet, pastry-adjacent caramel malt, a bit of syrupy pear fruitiness, sugary citrus, and plain leafy, earthy, and hay-like hop bitters. The taste is grainy, rather sweet caramel/toffee malt, muddled black orchard fruit flesh, understated orange and red grapefruit pith, and more earthy, leafy, and weedy hoppiness.
The bubbles are decently active in their at times fizzy, but mostly just playfully frothy manner, the body a solid middleweight, and fairly smooth, a certain (yet hard to pinpoint its origin) hoppy acridity taking things down a notch here. It finishes still pretty sweet, the caramel/toffee character duly in charge, with the hops meekly chipping away, unaware of their pending doom.
I can't say that this amber (ale) is all that naughty, but she is undeniably sweet, which is maybe her siren call, something to pull us dullards in, and then plonk the hammer down. The problem is, I see no proverbial other shoe dropping here, just a plain, if well-rendered offering, through and through. And I suppose that there ain't nothing wrong with that - sorry, Miss (at least for the double negative).
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