Tommyknocker Ornery Amber

Brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery
Style: American Dark Lager
Idaho Springs, Colorado USA

Poured from a 12oz bottle into a shaker. This beer poured a slightly hazy amber color with a thin, beige head that quickly faded away, leaving a few large, lingering bubbles. The aroma was made up of orange, pine, and some light toffee notes. The flavor included notes of light caramel, citrus, and just a touch of piney hops. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied with a good dose of carbonation. Overall, this was a decent session beer, but the flavors were a bit subdued.

Cloudy amber with thin head / Slightly skunky pineapple nose / Very watery, with barely discernable caramel and fruit flavors / Bad.

Bottle sampled. Pours deep copper with a decent size off-white head. Aroma of caramel malts, slight fruit, and sweetness. The flavor is sweet, caramel, with a mild herbal hop finish. Thinner bodied brew, nothing special.

Copper. Bready. A slight amount of bittering hops. Really rather boring. Maybe a little caramel flavor somewhere. Maybe.

Bottle. Copper pour. Pretty uneventful. Nothing wrong with it, but not interesting enough to warrant drinking one again.

Bottle (12oz). Clear ruby-tinted amber, smallish lasting off-white creamy head, very bubbly. Sweet, root beer and stale herbal hop aroma; grainy. Taste is toasted malt, vanilla, (lemon?) grass - sort of stale cereal grain. Okay body, a little sticky, stings a bit but isn’t really all that carbonated, some harsh bitterness joins in the light sweetness in the end. Ehh.

Strawberry and mint aroma. Cloudy amber color, thick fluffy off white head. There was a dark red ribbon of sediments floating near the top of the glass. Yeast taste and mild hop finish. A bit ovecarbonated. YMMV.

You know, I truly enjoyed this beer. Not much aroma but looks nice. Flavor was light, a little malty and very effervescent. A nice springy finish. A case of the right beer at the right time.