Summit Horizon Red Ale

Brewed by Summit Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

12 oz bottle–pours a rocky/foamy light tan head and amber color. Aroma is pungent/herbal/resin hops, medium malt-peat. Taste is pungent/herbal/resin/lemon hops with some bite, light/medium malt-peat. Nice hops and varied from medium to light body. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for picking this out.

Bottle poured a clear reddish amber with a small lingering amber head. Aromas of carmel, orange, pink grapefruit, pine and light earthiness. Palate was light bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of carmel, pine, pink grapefruit and light earthiness with a sdmooth dry moderatly bitter finish.

Smells and tastes of floral lavender and hops. Really only one major taste, which limits the complexity of the beer. A very pleasant and enjoyable brew, but not a super-sophisticated brew.

Bottle from belmont Party. Poured a clear reddish brown color with an average frothy off-white head that was mostly lasted and had excellent lacing. Moderate to heavy malt and earthy hop aroma. Medium body with slick texture and soft carbonation. Moderate to heavy bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Good complex session brew.

Pours a very dark ruby color--almost like a nut brown. The flavor too is kind of nut brown, malt with just a hint of hops at the end. It’s a solid beer.

Pours amber with a decent cream colored head. Aroma is citrusy and slightly floral hops. Flavor is nice citrusy, piney hops wiht a nice bitter finish. Pretty good.

12oz bottle into an unmarked snifter pours a tawny reddish hue with a core of iced tea. Well retained tuft of beige head that subsides to a thin veil and ring of tight bubbles. Very good aroma, balanced between caramel-amber malts and juicy, foresty hops with touches of grapefruit and pepper in the background. The flavor falls slightly flatter than the aroma lets on, with a toasted biscuit malt profile that has some nuttiness, too. Piny hop bitterness saved for the finish that lingers on the palate with some mineral crispness. Good mouthfeel, with a light body and spot-on carbonation. Easy drinking, flavorful Amber Ale...kudos to Summit for crafting a great session beer.

Bottle from the mother in law. Decent caramel and pine aroma. Amber red body with off white head. Good citrus flavor alnog with the caramel sweet malt in the background. Crisp bitterness on the palate good thirst quencher.