Seabright Amber

Brewed by Seabright Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Santa Cruz, California USA

On tap. Clear warm amber golden with a small off-white head. Lightly sweet caramellish nose. Medium body, sweetish burned caramel and a lightly bitter finish. 090709

From tap at the brewpub. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Roasted malt, caramel to toffee aroma. Roasted malt flavoured, toffeeish with a subdued sweetness and nice bitterness lifting the light butterish toffee malt. Bitter and roasted mixed flavoured finish.

On tap at brewery Light copper red with a creamy tan head. Leather, malt, and floral aroma with a smooth bready taste.

Draught at the brewpub. Not a lot to say about this; it’s a respectable amber, but doesn’t really stand out.

Draught at the brewpub. Clear red-amber with a beige head. Light dishwater yeast and light toasted malt aroma. The flavor has a definite dirty wet rag quality with indistinct hops and light malt. Prickly and light body. A definite let down, as all their other beers that I have tried have been solid. None of the flavors step out and make themselves known, except the undesirable ones. Sounds like it can be better, and I have to stop back in and try a future batch.

Sampled at the brewpub. Pours a deep, dark copper color with a creamy white head that recedes with decent lacing. Aroma includes a sweet maltiness and a tangy spicy note. The flavor reflects this, with grainy and sweet malt balanced out by a spicy floral hop zest. Light body, crisp finish, pretty easy to drink.

On tap at brewery. Pours a clear copper with thin creamy head and nice lacing. It has a light aroma of roasted malts and faint burnt wheat toast. The flavor is a mixture of semi sweet roasted malts, some malt astringency and faint nuttiness.

Sampled at the brewpub. Pours very nice with a dark cloudy texture and a nice lacey head. Aroma is very malty. Flavor is very crisp with a lingering hops. Overall a nice beer.