Sleeman Amber Ale

Brewed by Sleeman Brewing & Malting Co. (Sapporo)
Style: Amber Ale
Guelph, Canada

New the BC liquor stores but the taste is the same old Sleeman crap. If this is their idea of bold, I can’t help but worry about Unibroue’s fate. Pale amber colour with fizzy carbonation and an off-white head that falls back to a thin lace. Metallic hoppy aroma, some maltiness is apparent, but not much and there is a slight sourness. Thin-bodied and with faint vanilla notes over a thin caramel malt. Generally quite shitty.

Clear copper body with a slender beige head. The aroma is faint, a lightly toasted amber malt. No hints of hops here. The flavor is a lightly roasted malt with an odd rusty taste, leaving a not too pleasant metallic aftertaste.

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Bottle under the label "John Sleeman Presents Dark 50 Amber Ale". Nice reddish hue with an average head. Sugary malt flavors with a toffee twist and a nice tart finish. Decent.

(Bottle) Purchased at BCLS Fairfield in Victoria for $2. Pours a tan, foamy head with a mahogany body. Nose of tin, corn and malt. Flavour is metallic with a thin caramel base. Not good.

Medium copper or "amber" colour. Very poor head. Very light but warm caramel malt aroma. Flavour is a blend of oak, caramel, smoke and roasted malt. Unfortunately I find the body and the flavour to be too thin. It is like a thinner version of Shaftebury Rainforest Amber Ale (now owned by Sleeman). Or possibly a light bitter. It does have a light hop finish.

Yeah, this was okay. Like all of the other sleeman beers I’ve had, it is punched from the same mold with more character in the colour of the beer than anything else. Certainly among all the amber ales I’ve tried, it would occupy middle of the pack at very best, and that’s being generous.

Sparkling amber,small fast fading beige head. Typical Sleeman salty skunked nose.Light metallic neutral taste. Faintly hopped

12 oz bottle from el dorado. amber in color. Aroma is caramel/stale crystal malts and that’s about it. Taste is pretty thin bodied, with cardboard like crystal malts, light metallic in the finish.