Fiddlers Green Amber

Brewed by Matt Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Utica, New York USA

Name: Amber
Date: May 07, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: hazy orange, wispy off white head, streaks of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet bready aroma, light earthy hops
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of bready character, touch of candy caramel, light balancing earthyness, light lingering bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

(12oz bottle) Small off-white head atop crystal clear amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some bread, light butterscotch. Taste is medium sweet, caramel/bread, light grassy/earthy, sourness. Light-medium body, light acidity.

(Bottle) Pours a clear copper with a small white head. Aroma of bread dough and wet grass. Flavor of malt and nuts...not much else. Very little flavor...

Bottle… Clear, deep amber ale with orange highlights and a small, creamy, off-white head. Good retention. Malty, meaty nose with metallic, earthy hops. Also, notes of English toffee, caramel and biscuit with subdued copper or nickel. Medium sweet caramel flavor perfectly balanced by minerally, metallic bitterness. Uninteresting. Medium-bodied and lightly creamy with lively carbonation. Crisp, metallic, mildly bitter finish.

Pours amber with a thin white head. Smels sweet and malty. Tastes citrussy and tarte with some sweet malt presence on the finish.

Bottle: Pours a mahogany color with light fizzy off-white head. The nose is lightly grassy and flat with metallic malts and a lack of anything really. A dull thud on the palate, barely registers. Decent mouthfeel, i’ll give it that. Uniteresting.

Yeasty, malty aroma. Clean amber color with a beige head. Medium body; quite a bit of carbonation. Starts sweet with a sharp fruit accompaniment. A bit tart. Not very bitter. Could be floral hop. Tastier than a number of ambers.

Bottled. Poured medium orange with a nice cap of beige head. The aroma picked up artificially-sweetened caramel and lesser dark fruits with green floral and a bit of citrus hoppage around. The flavor picked up wet grains and caramel on the core with pine and citrus bitterness around.. sweet, tacky finish. Lighter-bodied and dry on the palate with just decent balance.. got caught up at the finish without leaving anything good there. Drinkable.