Crop Circle Beer

Brewed by Blue Point Brewing
Style: Amber Ale
Patchogue, New York USA

this is a great brew. Dark brown, sweet and good start to finish. Drink it at the brewery on tap!!! When you leave you’ll think you in a ’crop circle’

This is supposedly brewed with barley from England’s notorious "crop circle" fields. Cool label that suggests both medieval and space age mystery. Dark with a foamy head. Rich flavor that is close to being a stout - coffee, roasted grains, spices, and sweet malt. You can definitely taste the alien influence - no doubt the exhaust from their flying saucers found its way into this brew.

I actually enjoy this brew but it did make me feel a tad spacey really good amber beer caramel maltt and chocolate flavors biscuity toasty

A decent amber ale, with subdued hops and mild malts, finished off with strong caramel notes. Dark amber brown body with a lushy creamy head. Looks beautiful. Leaves a hint of bitterness on the back of my tongue, which is quite pleasant. Cocoa can also be found in the flavor. I wouldn’t call this beer out of balance, even though it is a liitle sweet. For an "amber ale", which I tend to think of is pretty bland, this is a nice surprise.

Brown with a thick light beige head. Aroma of honey, toasted malt, and a wisp of floral hops. Also fruitiness on the nose, which was hard to pin down, but I settled on blueberry as the closest description. Flavor is mildly nutty, roasty even, with some woodsiness and a dusting of cocoa in the finish. Hops were moderate, keeping the focus on the deep maltiness. I thought this was quite good. I had absolutely no idea this weighed in at almost 7% ABV, the alcohol is fabulously well hidden.

Not sure why this is listed as a Blue Point beer, as I believe (or was led to believe by what I read on the board at the brewery) this beer is brewed by Brick House. In any event, I enjoyed a pint of this one at the bar. Pours to a deep amber to red color, with a thick, creamy, white head, and a soft to moderate carbonation. The nose on this beer is estery, with lots of good fruity aromas of apple and plum, with some nice caramel malt sweetness, and hints of black pepper. The palate is soft and fat on the tongue, with good sweet and stewed malt flavors, paired some fruity esters. This beer finishes with more good sweet and caramel malt up front, then ends with some slight cirtus hop bitterness, and light alcohol heat that lingers. Tasty beer, with some good malty and estery character. A nice beer to relax with at the bar, and a nice beer to enjoy to take home in a growler. I liked this one.

Sweet aroma, mainly of caramelized malts, and a definite if small component of alcohol. (I know, the ABV is not high, but I smell it.) Overall, very pleasing. The appearance is amber, of course, with a modest white head. Very attractive. The flavor is roasted malts, caramel, toffee, minor hop contribution. The finish is mainly sweet malts, and is very pleasing as well. Overall, a very respectable beer.

12 ounce bottle in a pint glass. Caramel and mild chocolate aroma. Toasted caramel malty flavor with mild ripe fruit and mild bitter and nutty finish. Very malty. medium-full body, medium carbo. Pretty damn good for an amber ale.