Rahr & Sons Blind Salamander Pale Ale

Brewed by Rahr & Sons Brewing
Style: English Pale Ale
Fort Worth, Texas USA

12oz bottle courtesy of ericandersnavy. Pours a dark amber color with reddish highlights and a one finger, creamy tan head. Aroma is sweet and malty with some notes of toasted bread, grass, hay, light floral hop aromas. Flavor is also sweet and malty with notes of toasted nuts, honey, caramel, roasted bread, light spice notes. Generally medium body with a malty and sweet finish. Surprised at the lack of hop presence in this beer.

Bottle. Pours a large foamy head with brownish gold body. Aroma of burnt malts, sourdough bread, and some hop bitterness. Taste is earthy, almost sweet chocolate and dirt. Fizzy mouthfeel.

Pours amber with a medium lived beige head. Smell is malty more so than hoppy and has a toasty malt nose, in fact. Taste however is slightly more hoppy than the smell would lead on and helps balance the toasty caramel sweetness. The hops are earthy and just a hint metallic perhaps. Medium to slightly full body with crisp carbonation. Overall, a solid, sessionable beer, I thought, but nothing too outrageous.

Bottle from Central Market Houston. Pours an amber-red with decent cream head. Nose of caramel malts and some cocoa. Flavor was caramel, toasted malts and light EKG hops. Good mouthfeel.

Bottle cortesy of chef201atc poured a clear reddish amber with a lasting creamy amber head. Aromas of carmel, toasted malt, earthiness and a hint of cocoa. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of carmel, toasted malt and earthiness with a smooth malty finish.

(12oz bottle, courtesy of mar) Pours a clear deep amber body with a small off-white quickly diminishing head. Aroma of nuts, caramel, toasted grain, grass, and light florals. Flavor of toasted grain, caramel, and mild hops (grass).

Bottle. Pours a vivid and lush amber with a nice off-white head. Aroma is plastic-like with hints of fruit and roasted nut. Slight whispers of ripened grapefruit and close-to-expiration orange. Overall it reminds me of the smell of the ultra-70s plastic placemats my parents had when I was a kid. Flavor is a striking blend of nut and cinammon, with a hint of mild coffee in the finish. Average and lively mouthfeel. Overall, not too shabby. Might be tempted to ’see’ this one again.

Bottle from ericandersnavy. Amber pour wtih a gushing white head. Aroma is full of caramel malt. Some hops are noticeable as well. Flavor is hidden under too damn many bubbles. some notes of caramel and hops are present.