Apex Predator Amber Lager
Apex Brewing
- From:
- Apex Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Czech Amber Lager
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 18, 2018
- Added:
- Aug 13, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Our Albertan ode to the relatively obscure Czech Amber Lager style is malt-focused and a very complex character. Featuring authentic Czech pilsner malt and a variety of caramel and character malts, this brew bursts with flavours of sweet toffee, crisp graham cracker, and ripe fruit. Czech Saaz hops work in harmony with the maltiness, their gentle spicy character providing balance and refreshing the palate.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.62/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
473ml can - the latest in their Apex Predator series, which they seem to be cranking out at a serious pace. Apparently this is a 'Czech-style amber lager'.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some decent latticework lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy cereal malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, bruised apples and pears, and some mild leafy, spicy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, wet graham crackers, a muddled pome fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more understated earthy, musty, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing getting in the way of a swell time at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the robust malt really showing some lingering moxie.
Overall - this is quite the malt-bomb, as there is very little corresponding bitterness present here. Yet it seems balanced enough, but I don't think that I would want more than one of this sort of offering.
Aug 18, 2018This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy ecru head, which leaves some decent latticework lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy cereal malt, a bit of biscuity toffee, bruised apples and pears, and some mild leafy, spicy, and grassy green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, wet graham crackers, a muddled pome fruitiness, some damp minerality, and more understated earthy, musty, and grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing getting in the way of a swell time at this particular point in the game. It finishes off-dry, the robust malt really showing some lingering moxie.
Overall - this is quite the malt-bomb, as there is very little corresponding bitterness present here. Yet it seems balanced enough, but I don't think that I would want more than one of this sort of offering.
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