Ballast Point Calico Amber Ale

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

Very enjoyable beer and good flavors, body, and strength considering it’s only 5%. A good session beer. Creamy hops and brown sugar aromas. Brown opaque color with some density. Flavors are hoppy with red roasted flavors and some cream and cheese. Palate is creamy and rich enough. Light but rich and well balanced. Tasty.

Medium bodied amber ale with a lot of flavor. Roasted malts make this almost dark orangeish color ale quite good.

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ home.
Clear medium to dark orange amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, hay, keller. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, and a dusty ry peppery finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090128]

Bomber. Pours a rich-colored amber, with slightly less than a finger of puffy, off-white head. Not much happening with the aroma. Flavor is watery, and nearly all breadiness, malt and hops. Has a mildly bubbly and lively mouthfeel, but so does soda water. There’s some citrus near the end, but, unfortunately, like many of the other beers from this brewery, water seems to be the overriding ingredient. Not bad, but far from great.

Bottled (@Beer Hunters). Clear deep amber color, small off-white head, some lace. Bready hoppy nose with light sticky glue-like note. Bready a bit American hoppy flavor, quite balanced and easily drinkable. Yeasty twist. Aftertaste has some citrusy hops but otherwise leans more towards maltyness. Quick summer drink.

Hazy brown with minimal white head. Aroma is sweet and fruity with plum and overripe tangerine. Taste is citrusy hop character with a sour edge, and roasted caramel in the finish with a bitter, tannic note. $5/22oz

From a hand pumped cask at Stone, "with Goldings and Hallertann(?) whole flower Hops". Medium amber color with a big fluffy head that stuck around for the party. Sticky. Nose is floral sweet. Taste is citrus sweet. Bit of floral and grapes in there too. Small aftertaste lingers with bitterness.

(Bottle at Hilpeä Hauki, Helsinki, on 2009-04-24) Dark amber and almost clear. Small white head. Grassy, fruity and malty aroma. Full bodied and dry palate with medium carbonation. Hops, malts, grass, fruitiness, little bit of molasses and bitterness in taste. Malty and lightly bitter aftertaste.