Belgian Amber
Belly Hop Brewing
- From:
- Belly Hop Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Ale
- ABV:
- 4.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 13, 2018
- Added:
- Mar 03, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.8/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.8/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - how is this an 'American' style amber ale? Don't get me started.
This beer pours a hazy, medium orange-brick amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some random seaspray pattern lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some bruised pome fruitiness, estery Belgian yeast, brown sugar syrup, and some tame earthy, musty and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, underripe apple skin, ethereal domestic citrus rind, subtle old-school yeasty notes, and more leafy, musty, and herbal green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of yeast acridity maybe not playing all that well with the neighborhood children, as such. It finishes off-dry, just, with a nice lingering fruity malt character.
Overall - this comes across as a very competently rendered version of the style, which is right there in the name. In fact, it is the name, just food for thought, y'know? Anyways, gentle, easy to drink, and actually kind of refreshing as we return to normal August weather (I'm still drying out - literally, not figuratively - from yesterday's rainstorm).
Aug 13, 2018This beer pours a hazy, medium orange-brick amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some random seaspray pattern lace around the glass as it quickly dissipates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some bruised pome fruitiness, estery Belgian yeast, brown sugar syrup, and some tame earthy, musty and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a lesser biscuity toffee sweetness, underripe apple skin, ethereal domestic citrus rind, subtle old-school yeasty notes, and more leafy, musty, and herbal green hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, but for a touch of yeast acridity maybe not playing all that well with the neighborhood children, as such. It finishes off-dry, just, with a nice lingering fruity malt character.
Overall - this comes across as a very competently rendered version of the style, which is right there in the name. In fact, it is the name, just food for thought, y'know? Anyways, gentle, easy to drink, and actually kind of refreshing as we return to normal August weather (I'm still drying out - literally, not figuratively - from yesterday's rainstorm).
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