Middle Ages Grail Ale

Brewed by Middle Ages Brewing
Style: Amber Ale
Syracuse, New York USA

Pours a dark amber orangy color with good fluffy head that only slowly diminishes. Smells like malt and somewhat like citrus with caramel thrown in for good measure. Smooth taste, medium malt comes forth with a lightly hopped aftertaste. Mouthfeel is very light, much lighter and easier to drink than the smell would lead one to think. Drinkability is also good doesn’t slide down, but then it also doesn’t fight.

Very deep amber color with a copper-tinted head, very nice lacing around the glass, nose full of yeast & rich malt, rather light in the body but yet very drinkable, nothing really all that outstanding though, flavors are a bit thin making this amber a very average one, this has a very pronounced malt profile with hints of spicy hops, caramel & lemon, very complex finish though with a nice combination of light hops & yeasty malt, very bready in the aftertaste as well

Pours amber with creamy white head. Excellent lacing. Some caramel and citrus hits you with apple and medium hoppiness. Middle of the road.

bot. Orangest hop aroma yet. Tufty beige-wite head on reddish beer. Doughy aroma. bitter and cider cellary. Sour fruit = a little tinny. gin + tonic.

Pretty typical amber. Aroma of wet tobacco, slight malt. Taste is similar, with decent sweet malts, chewy chocolate and a touch of hops.

Average beer. Pours orange yellow with a small head. Aroma is sweet but with some stale hops. Flavor is fairly balanced hops and malt, with a bit of a dry finish.

(bottle - 12 oz) Dark ruby and copper color with a mountain of tan foam. Aroma is a nice blend of malts, some light hops and some apple skins. The flavor begins with a mix of apples and sweet malts. It’s followed by a malty and slightly bitter middle and an aftertaste of some hops. The finish is very clean and hoppy. Very fizzy and tangy on the tongue.

Grail Ale is an amber ale by style, but with the use of Ringwood it is a very distinctive one. This beer has lots of great sweet malty and hoppy flavors, as well as earthy and buttery aromas and flavors from the use of Ringwood. Grail Ale pours to a beautiful, slightly hazy, deep amber color with a thick and creamy white head, and a soft to moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is very fragrant with aromas of zesty and citric hop aromas, married with some earthy/yeasty aromas, and a nice underpinning of caramel malt aromas. The palate is firm, with lots of good pale and caramel malt flavors, with a back drop of estery fruit, and notes of butter scotch. Grail Ale finishes with more malt, fruit, and lightly buttery notes up front, then ends with a nice burst of citric hop bitterness that ties this beer all together. I found Grail Ale to be an outstanding, very flavorful amber ale.