Amber Ale
Hawk Tail Brewery

This beer is made in Rimbey Alberta where I live. It's a bit pricy but it's very tasty and quite smooth. It's a beautiful as amber color and It's my favorite beer brewed at Hawktail Breweries. I'll pay a bit more for this awesome beer.

Pours a nice amber colour, nearly clear but not quite, with two fingers of off-white head. The smell is unique enough to pique my interest, full of indistinct fruits and sweet caramel malt. On the palate, bitter chemical hops, indistinct fruit. On the finish, baked apples, grainy malt, and a lingering chemical bitterness. Overall an interesting ale, rather fruity, sort of unique, but it doesn't leave me craving more.

 

"Malty, Balanced, Caramel"

Appearance - Pours a rusty copper with two fingers of foamy tan head.

Smell - earthy, leafy, weedy, and floral hops, bready malts, caramel, dark fruits, hint of warm spices, and earthy yeast.

Taste - earthy, leafy, weedy, and floral hops upfront then quickly goes into the bready malts, and caramel. The dark fruits, hint of warm spices, and earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes smooth with both the hops and malts lingering.

Overall - A highly sessionable brew that delivers on the "malty,balanced, caramel" on the can. I just wish the flavours were a bit more pronounced. Otherwise, a drinkable brew.

355ml can - 'slight in roasted malts'? Who writes this shit?

This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent bonsai tree forest pattern lace around the glass as it lazily sinks away.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some bruised pome fruitiness, hints of cafe-au-lait, and very tame earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a further biscuity toffee sweetness, overripe pears and baked apples, and more understated leafy, floral, and herbal hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-baiting frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the malt pretty much the only lingering game in town.

Overall - if it seems like I've just phoned this review in, it's because I'm trying (hah!) to reflect the nature of this offering, which right off the bat reminded me heavily of Big Rock Trad. Looks like this upstart brewery is pandering to the masses, so I wish them well, but will not be seeking out any more in the near to distant future.