MacTarnahans Amber Ale (Macs Ale)

Brewed by Portland Brewing Company (Pyramid)
Style: Amber Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Decent for an amber, but otherwise weak and boring. Lots of caramel malts with a little balance from faint hops. Lightly sweet, but not too much. Needs something else to be good at all. A little watery and thin. Not terrible, fairly drinkable.

Clear golden with a fizzy white head. Simple clean sweet malt aroma. Fairly well balanced taste with evident hop bitterness and a clean finish.

From tap at the Pyramid location in Walnut Creek. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild hops fruity, light peachy. Sweet malt flavoured, fruity, distinct peachy. Mild bitter and quite fruity flavoured finish.

First off, kudos to Mac’s for the adult-size bottle, a very good thing in a beer you like but not the best for a dud; good thing I liked this one. Pouring a modest two fingers of a foamy tan head above an excellent clear amber body, a small bit of lacing eventually arrived. Aroma was a nice maltiness and so is the taste. Mouthfeel was a lil’ bit sharp to start but overall taste and mouthfeel were pleasant and clean, with some malt and hop. Aftertaste was, how can I say it, ’calming’ perhaps?

Draft at the alehouse in Walnut Creek. A dark golden (more than amber) beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt, elderflowery hops, and some caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of elderflowers, malt, and caramel, leading to medium bitter finish.

12 oz. bottle. Shared with Peter. Pours a thin head, poor duration, extensive lacing, over a clear, dark golden body.....nose of toffee honey, bit of bread.....taste is sweetish malts to start rotating to mild hop bitterness.....mouth feel is fairly light, carbonation good. A pleasant amber, quite typical of the style.

notes from pacific n.w. trip -- clear amber pour. sweet malt and caramel aroma. light sweet banana taste throughout. good creamy medium bodied. K7

Bottle as shown. Pours a clear amber color with a medium frothy off white head that leves behind good sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is a fruity malt with floral and lemon zest. Medium mouthfeel with a sweet grain taste with lemon and citrus with a bitter finish. A good amber ale from PBC.