Abita Amber Lager

Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Vienna
Covington, Louisiana USA

I’ll admit it, I’m partial to Abita because I’m from New Orleans. It’s an above-average beer good for standard drinking, and usually what I’ll go to at a restaurant. Clear amber color, white head. Goes down smooth with flavors of malt and caramel and a clean finish.

Overall Impression: I remember this being a decent Amber beer, but I just didn’t stick in my brain too well.

**I will need to re visit this ranking in the future, as I don’t remember all the intricacies of this beer well enough to record them at this time.

12 oz bottle from the Binnys Singles Rack (Orland Park, Il). Pours a bit of a dark gold, just a touched hazed, with decent offwhite head that dissipates to a good film. Well carbonated, aromas are some decent bready malt with light biscuit and a spiciness to it. Initial is light bodied, light bready malt, light sweetness, with a faint spice and pepper. A little too watery and weak for me. Needs to pronounce it’s style, not cower in fear and lack flavor. Quenching, but lacking overall.

Clear amber color with a white head. Mild hop, wheat, and malt aroma. Smooth drinking. Not much carbonation. Flavor of malts, wheat and a mild hop end.

pours copper with white head. Aroma is hoppy, wheat and malty, really nothing special there. Taste, hoppy with some fruit notes, light malt presence giving the beer a sweet mouthfeel of wheat/caramel with notes of grains. Boring at best.

Bottle. Amber color, normal white head. Little lacing on the glass but it is carbonated well. Malt and grain taste.

Has a slight taste of burnt barley. The cocoa taste can’t overpower the subtilty of burntness.

Clear amber with a thick foamy off-white head. Lots of carbonation and laces decently. Aroma is sweet malt and grass. Taste is outdoors, some fruit with a metallic finish. Overall thin with hardly any hop balance. I