Oak Creek Amber Ale

Brewed by Oak Creek Brewing Co.
Style: Amber Ale
Sedona, Arizona USA

Pours a clear reddish-amber color with a faint head that faded. Has a light grassy hop aroma. Flavor is also a slight grassy hops with just a touch of caramel malt sweetness. Medium body. Not too bad.

12 oz bottle: Tiny little 1/8" head that fades away in a matter of seconds. The color is a nice amber-brown color almost a copper. The aroma is fruity, carboard and very mild to non-existant. The flavor is sweet malts up front (only on the first touch of the tounge/lips) then fruity, cardboard, wood, and socks with a bitter (not necessarily in a good way) finish.

Very unusual beer. Pours very dark mahogany with a tan head. Aroma is nutty and caramel. Flavor is the same, but with a sour finish. I don’t know how this can be called an amber. Not sweet, not transparent. I’d call this a stout, and not a very good one.

Shared this with Aurelius who brought it back from Arizona. Medium copper-coloered pour, decent off-white head. Aroma has some fruity and floral notes to it with some nectarines. Flavor has a profile of citrus and caramel with an odd celery back end. The finish has a sweet, biscuity maltiness to it with a hint of nuttiness. Thick mouthfeel, decent amber. Actually had this before on a trip to Sedona before my RB days.

Muddy effect. Hops fruit, light diacetyl, a bit doughy. Mild lingering bittering. Kumquat, green pecan. A bit astringent. Fairly acidic. OK label, good bronzy beer. Mild freshwater aroma.

Pours with a frothy amber-tan colored head that is held up by a fair amount of carbonation. The color is a pretty, only faintly hazy, bright ruby red color when held up to the light. The aroma is faintly citrusy, with a mild spicy hop aroma. The taste is dry and spritzy up front and then moves to a lightly sweet, fruity, almost strawberry like note. This beer is pretty light on the palate and has a soft, lightly buttery type note to it as well. This beer is far less flavorful, and a tad lighter than I was expecting. There is a bit of malt complexity here with notes of caramel being dominant, and the hops have a light spicy note to them, as well as a balancingly bitter finish, but this beer is just lacking in character. There really needs to be more of something, be it malt or hops, to make this beer interesting.

Nice amber color, thin head with a sweet aroma. Smooth and drinkable. Slight caramel initial and then finishes with a little bitterness. A good amber.

Somewhat of a camel aroma to it. Copper body and good head on the pour but was gone quick. Flavor of some hoppinees and smooth on the palate. If this beer would of been cool and crisp on the palate rating might of been a different story.