Ballast Point Calico Amber Ale

Brewed by Ballast Point Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
San Diego, California USA

on tap-pours a big creamy light tan head and amber/copper color. Aroma is nice grapefruit hops-slight bitter, secondary medium malt-caramel. Taste is nice grapefruit hops, secondary medium malt-caramel, roasty. OK/mild carbonation.

From the tap poured amber with a quickly fading head. Nice sweet flavor with a pleasant finish.

Pours a red amber with a nice white head. Hops, malts, and honey in the nose. Taste is earthy hops, honey, caramel malts, bread, and grapefruit. Nicely carbonated, very smooth.

12 oz. glass glass bottle- color of deep amber, with a decent off white colored head - nose of mild hops, melon, malt, and some resin – taste of dirty hops, , and - body is medium, ang slightly oily, and with medium carbonation – aftertaste of resin, dirty hops, and is short

650 ml. brown bottle, no freshness date, sampled in a pint glass. Poured a clear reddish copper with a nice sized beige head of creamy foam. Beneath the head is a steady stream of carbonation. Pleasant smelling nose of toasted biscuits and honey husky grains, oily pine, citrus and peppery spices. Mildly crisp moderate body, dry and soft feeling in the palate. The hops are restrained, but prevalent in the taste. Oily grapefruit peels, pine resins and herbaceous leafs all vying to stick to the tongue’s taste buds. Underlining the hops are sweet malty flavors of toasted honey grains and lightly roasted caramel. A light yeast fruitiness becomes quite citric towards the end. Finishes with a dry toasted breadiness and a lingering peppery hop spiciness. A first rate American Amber Ale, malty with that California hoppiness makes this a very sessional beer.

(bonus brew from weeheavysd)orange/red body with a pretty big light brown head.aroma is of seltzer water,caramel malts,and a tiny bit of citrus hops.flavor is much of the same with the malts really shinning through.

Amber bottle pour with an off-white head. Citrus and caramel nose. Flavor is slightly sweet with caramilzed sugars, with a nice hoppy bite to it. Medium body with somewhat hoppy finish. Very nice.

12oz bottle: Pours a transparent orange amber with a wispy-lacing froth of off-white head. Aroma of lightly sweet and toasted caramel malts with some resiny grapefruity hoppy notes. Body starts fairly full with a nice, earthy caramel biscuity sweetness along with a crisp, English hoppy bitterness toward a balanced bittersweet finish. Very drinkable and true to style.