Natty Greenes Buckshot Amber Ale

Brewed by Natty Greenes Pub & Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Greensboro, North Carolina USA

From notes 8/7/04: Pours a deep amber color with a fluffy off-white head. Each sip is demarcated by a ring of foam. Very nice. Aromas were wet with malty goodness. Caramel malts abound. Flavors have plenty of the aforementioned caramel, with the added bonus of biscuit and a splash of hops. Just enough hops to give some sort of order. Lingering malt finish, with some more hoppiness to try to balance it out. I enjoyed this.

12 oz., bb Aug 08. Clear dark copper with a ruby tinge and a small, creamy head that lasts and laces well. Aroma of earth-spiced molasses, tea leaf and caramel. Flavor is grain, molasses, tea leaf, biscuit, light apple, toasted nut and some slight resin on the finish. Light-medium body is smooth and lightly hop-tingly. This is a very good example of an English style premium bitter.

Poured a clear amber color with a creamy off-white head. Caramel and mild nutty malt aroma. Lightly sweet. The flavor was malty sweet with a citrusy hop finish. Medium body. It’s a decent amber.

This aroma of this deep amber ale is rich with chewy malts, caramel with some toffee, and just a suggestion of sweet apples. Creamy mouthfeel. The taste delivers the maltiness that the aroma promises and has just enough bitter hopping to keep the sweetness under control. Nice.

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12 oz bottle. Better than I had expected. Decent malty nose, that carried over to the flavor. Thirst quenching and actually not half bad.

on tap-pours an off white head and amber color. Aroma is mild light/medium malt. Taste is medium malt-sweet, faint/secondary hops bite.

On tap at the brewery again. Nice amber with a little more character than what I am used to. Nice malt profile with a slight candy sugar flavor. Slight fruit in the nose.

Bottle. Whoa, it is weird how cloudy this is. It’s like reddish milk. I guess I was really expecting a filtered ale to come out of this bottle. There’s a nice looking head on this one. Nose is musty, non-descript. Some mild biscuits and obvious papery hops. Upon sipping, I find this to be sweeter than expected. Now, it certainly is not overly sweet but is rather pleasing in a way similar to honey. I don’t get a lot of hops anywhere in taste. Another surprise is the amount of vinous quality in the finish. Again, it isn’t overwhelming (nothing on this beer is, truth to tell) but it is a definite nod at grapes. Much like their pale ale, this is a standard amber ale with little, very subtle tweaks that make it almost interesting. It’s not bad.