Speakeasy Prohibition Ale

Brewed by Speakeasy Ales and Lagers
Style: Amber Ale
San Francisco, California USA

An excellent amber. Pours true and clear amber with a puffy white head. Aroma of roasted caramel malt and some hops. Very smooth taste and perfectly balanced between the sweet malt and hop bite. A rare case of being hoppy, but not falling into the "weak IPA" category.

This one was a gusher. Pours with a large foamy off white head. Cloudy golden amber in appearance with some floaties, head retained and laced nicely. Aroma was a nice roasty caramel malt with some sweet citrus. I really liked the hop/malt balance in the aroma. Flavors of the same with a slight bitter hop very well balanced by the malty backbone.

Prohibition Ale pours to a beautiful, slightly hazy amber color with a nice white head that fades, and a good carbonation. The nose on this beer is very vibrant with a big punch of citric hop aromas of lemon and grapefruit. The palate if firm, with lots of sweet caramel malty flavors, paired with some estery, plummy fruit notes. Prohibition Ale finishes with some more caramel and fruit up front, then ends with a long, dry, very zesty lemon and grapefruit rind bitterness that lingers on the tongue. This is an outstanding Amber Ale from a fantastic little San Francisco microbrewery. The hop character in this beer is quite aggressive, but I like the fact that it does indeed have enough malt heft, to make this a very well done amber ale. This beer is very food friendly and would work with a number of dishes, from steaks and chops, to salmon to sword fish. At 6.1% abv, it will sneak up on you if you decide to a few of these, so be careful as this beer is very, very drinkable.

Without that standout toasted caramel maltiness this could very easily pass for an apa. Big on the hoppy scale, the malts are solid and stnadalone but is definitely more biased on the hops. Somewhat sweet and leads into a bitterness that keeps the mouthfeel quite lively and never gets boring. Decent.

(bottle - 12 oz) Hazy amber pour with about a half inch of tan head. Aroma is floral and hoppy with some sweet malts as well. Very bitter taste with lots of hoppy and floral flavors. Slightly bitter and crisp finish and aftertaste. Medium-bodied and very harsh on the tongue.

Meidum orange colored body with a frothy slightly yellowish head. The aroma was grapefruit and a hint of soapy pine. These guys like their hops big and bold. There is also a toffee note. the taste is iced tea with a little bit of mild grapefruit. There is also some light grassy pine in the finish. A nicely done amber with some character.

The bottle poured a slightly hazy amber beverage with nice medium sized smooth head that was mostly lasting and left nice lacing on the glass. My first aromatic impression was of citrus hops. Upon close inspection I could just make out the caramel malt way in the background. Not that it is a bad thing, but this is NOT a "balanced" amber ale. It leans way to the hop side of the scale. It had a medium-to-slightly thin body with lively carbonation and a dry texture. The flavor started off slightly on the bitter side and pretty much stayed there throughout. The finish was dry, long, and slightly bitter.

This beer greets the nose with a nice sweet mild aroma of hops. This beer is a rustic brick colored solution, unfortunately only a sandbar of a head is produced. This beer is moderately thick and tingles the palate with a caramel hops taste. A nice hops taste is left lingering on the palate.