No. 99 Amber Ale
Wayne Gretzky Craft Brewery
- From:
- Wayne Gretzky Craft Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 1.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 29, 2021
- Added:
- May 13, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.77/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a nice dark caramel colour. Reasonable sized head. Malted grain on the nose. Low bitterness despite being double hopped. Slightly sweet, honey-like background behind a malty front end. Smooth mouthfeel
Oct 29 2022
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Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.62/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
473 ml can served cold into a pint glass. LCBO purchase for $3.35 CDN.
Appearance - Pours deep amber color with a finger plus of white heads that reduces into a small soapy collar after a few minutes.
Smell - Somewhat earthy with some sugary aspects. Bready with a trace bit of nuttiness.
Taste - Lots of malts some caramel, flowery aspects and a bit of nuttiness. Mildly bitter. Something sweet maybe a trace of honey.
Mouthfeel - Medium-medium light bodied, carbonation is on the soft end and slightly dry finish.
Overall - Solid if unspectacular amber, but a nice addition to the Great One's beer lineup.
Oct 29, 2021Appearance - Pours deep amber color with a finger plus of white heads that reduces into a small soapy collar after a few minutes.
Smell - Somewhat earthy with some sugary aspects. Bready with a trace bit of nuttiness.
Taste - Lots of malts some caramel, flowery aspects and a bit of nuttiness. Mildly bitter. Something sweet maybe a trace of honey.
Mouthfeel - Medium-medium light bodied, carbonation is on the soft end and slightly dry finish.
Overall - Solid if unspectacular amber, but a nice addition to the Great One's beer lineup.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.76/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.76/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473 mL can from the LCBO; coded L012151320 and served slightly chilled. Double hopped with Centennial and Citra according to their website.
Pours foggy and effervescent; its body is orange-amber in colour and topped with one finger of loose, soapy, off white-tinged head. Within several minutes, it has settled off to a tight collar and filmy cap, with a lovely, wavy curtain of sticky lace also left in place - looks good to me. It smells of bready pale malts, caramelized sugars and graininess, with fruity undertones that remind me of orchard fruit, or maybe raisins. Just a touch of lemon, too, along with some floral notes.
Not a bad little amber - well-balanced and quaffable. Grainy and a little doughy at the forefront, with subtle hints of apple, lemon and berries also coming through. Bready malts and light caramel sweetness on through the back end, which adds a touch of floral, weakly earthy hop bitterness; hints of toasted/caramelized malt and lemon zest fade into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with middling carbonation levels that remain at least a little prickly for the entire session; easy to toss back quickly, and not at all a chore to do so.
Final Grade: 3.76, a B+. These No. 99 beers have been been pretty uniformly serviceable - not outstanding, but certainly not bad, and their Amber Ale is no exception to that rule. I wouldn't describe this as a 'hop-forward' beer, but the Centennial double hopping gives this amber just enough of a kick to maintain my interest and earn it a respectable grade. Keeping in mind that this is not a style I tend to reach for all that often, this is an amber that I could actually see myself buying semi-regularly, assuming it remains available year-round. Worth a go.
Oct 08, 2021Pours foggy and effervescent; its body is orange-amber in colour and topped with one finger of loose, soapy, off white-tinged head. Within several minutes, it has settled off to a tight collar and filmy cap, with a lovely, wavy curtain of sticky lace also left in place - looks good to me. It smells of bready pale malts, caramelized sugars and graininess, with fruity undertones that remind me of orchard fruit, or maybe raisins. Just a touch of lemon, too, along with some floral notes.
Not a bad little amber - well-balanced and quaffable. Grainy and a little doughy at the forefront, with subtle hints of apple, lemon and berries also coming through. Bready malts and light caramel sweetness on through the back end, which adds a touch of floral, weakly earthy hop bitterness; hints of toasted/caramelized malt and lemon zest fade into the aftertaste. Light-medium in body, with middling carbonation levels that remain at least a little prickly for the entire session; easy to toss back quickly, and not at all a chore to do so.
Final Grade: 3.76, a B+. These No. 99 beers have been been pretty uniformly serviceable - not outstanding, but certainly not bad, and their Amber Ale is no exception to that rule. I wouldn't describe this as a 'hop-forward' beer, but the Centennial double hopping gives this amber just enough of a kick to maintain my interest and earn it a respectable grade. Keeping in mind that this is not a style I tend to reach for all that often, this is an amber that I could actually see myself buying semi-regularly, assuming it remains available year-round. Worth a go.
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