Redhook CopperHook Spring Ale

Brewed by Redhook Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Woodinville, Washington USA

Date: 02/27/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Wild Wing Cafe, Marietta

clear amber, wispy head, light sweet malt aroma, good malt flavor with a touch of sweetness balanced by nondescript hops, very light bitterness, decent flavor and drinkable but not too exciting

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

(12oz bottle, bottled 1/08/07) Crystal clear apple juice body, white head. Aroma is medium sweet, apple, some honey, light earth. Taste is medium sweet, cereal, some spice/earth, light honey, apple. Light-medium body, moderate crispness.

(Bottle) Pours a clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of skunky grass, grain, and light florals. Flavor of hops (grass), caramel malt, cereal, and toasted grain.

Bottle… Lightly hazed golden ale with a small, creamy, white head. Decent retention. Malty aromas of toffee and caramel with some earthy and medicinal notes as well. Malty, caramel and toffee flavor. Hopped just enough to prevent the sweetness from becoming overbearing. Medium to full-bodied with a sticky mouthfeel and middle-of-the-road carbonation. Caramelized, sweet finish. It’s a malt bomb! Reminiscent of a Märzen or Maibock, but both of those are lagers and one of them is an autumn (not spring) seasonal.

Pours copper/amber with an off white thin head. Smells of sweet malt and rosey. Tastes earthy and semi sweet with some peppery splashes on the finish.

Hazy amber colour with very little head. Malty aroma with noticable citrus hops and some faint fruitiness. Flavour is both spicy and citrusy. Crisp finish with decent body.

<font size=+1>Drinking Conditions: Pint glass, tasted with and without the yeast, 40°F Tasting temp</font><hr> Poured a dark orange, almost amber with very slight haze to it. It is unfiltered, so once the yeast is poured in it becomes very hazy. Small white head, average lacing. Aroma slightly hoppy with a yeast background with notes of honey, apricot and citrus. Flavor is mild with an absence of any floral hops. They used enough bittering hops, it is very dry and bitter on the palate, but the hop flavor doesn't come out. A little dry hopping would go a long way on this one. I prefer this without the yeast as it adds to the already bready taste and hides more of the hops. The yeast does add a more homebrewed taste to it though.

Bottle. Pours a clear dark amber with a large rocky white head that mostly lasting and produced good lacing. Good well balanced aroma. Medium body. Good well balanced malt and hop flavor with a medium pleasent bitter finish of moderate duration.