River Horse Imperial Cherry Amber

Brewed by River Horse Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Lambertville, New Jersey USA

( 12oz bottle thanks to zdk9) Pours amber with tons of fluffy head. Nose of molasses, light cherries, medicinal, corn and bready. Taste is very light hops, metallic, and lightly oxidized. Not as enjoyable as I’d hoped.

bottle thanks to zdk9 on ba. amber with a thick white head. interesting nose of cherries, sugar and bread. decent on the palate. flavor is not that great, cherries and an off flavor of syrup.

Bottle. Pours a dark amber with a small beight head. Aroma is tart cherries, caramel, floral hops and nuts. Flavor was sweet malts, slight cherry, caramel, nuts and some graininess with a crisp dry finish.

Pours copper with a white head. Smells of caramel, cherries, citrussy. Tastes of cherries, caramel, some earthy undertones. Interesting and enjoyable.

Pours a hazy copper color with a white head. Aroma is caramel, cherry, and some crystal malts. Flavor is malty, cherry, crystal malts, and a bitter finish.

dark amber with a thin head... small hint of cherries... mostly a caramel malt flavor... very bitter aftertaste... not what I was expecting

My bottle (12oz) shared with garthicus. Pours a deep orange-amber with lots of bubbles and a big long-lasting foamy off-white head. Aroma’s smells a bit stale but I recently got this bottle, still fine though: Musty along with some tart cherries, caramel malt and hints of nuts and wood. Flavour of caramel malt and not much else, maybe some nuts and a light bitter finish. Tastes like your average Amber Ale and there’s nothing "Imperial" about it. No cherries there either. Average bodied. It’s O.K.

[Bottle] Pours deep amber with a small khaki head that lingers nicely. The aroma is strong maltiness and black pepper, with slight fruity accents (strangely I get more pineapple, blackberry and lemon zest than cherry), and hazelnut. Taste is earthy, biscuit, and has faint fruitiness that I would have had a hard time pegging as cherry. Fairly thin, but quite smooth with a fairly long finish. I generally steer clear of amber ales, and although when they added "imperial" and "cherry" to it I admittedly was a little interested, it was more in a "how bad will this train wreck be?" sort of way. I wanted to fill out my $4 mixed four pack at Whole Foods though, and as I had already selected 3 beers that I wanted, and there were only na beers left, I went with this. Sitting here as I drink it, listening to an early summer thunderstorm roll in from the Shenandoahs, I was surprised to find that it isn’t nearly as bad as I had expected. Pretty simply, but inoffensive, and quite drinkable.