Town Hall Amarillo Amber

Brewed by Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

Bright rusty orange. Slimmingly small and bubbled capping of off-white doesn’t keep long when served. Some stringy lace sticks while consumed. Aroma is of waxy, soapy pine resin. Tenderly smokey with some solid orange oil drops and some malt sweetness appear stronger as it warms. Taste is super gliding smooth and firm with a creamy, easy going caramel malt backing, teethed by a small edge of toasted malt evident in the background. The Amarillo’s do there thing nearer the end as it picks up finely tanged pine resin, orangey grapefruityness, and some nice smokey hints to wild grasses on top of the a growing toasted turf of malts. Semi waxy, clean, creamy, frim, bold, and quick to the tongue with a soothing pleasure of a simple, yet yeilding amount of sweet malt and toasted factions adding to the hop toned finish of cleanly bright pine resin sap, wax, and floral grassy soap. No surprise here...another fine drinker of a hoppy toned ale by TH.

Bomber shared by JW77...He is the man! Pours a very nice sparkling amber color. Small head. Aroma is simple but delicious. Caramel malt and cittrus hops. The flavor goes back and forth between a nice citrus bitter hop and some good caramel malt. Damn good stuff.

Growler. Thanks to Stine for sending me this. Pours a deep amber body with nice head. Grassy aroma, hoppy, with some caramel. Flavor is sweet with a big hop flavor but not overprowering. Sweet malty taste in the end of each sip. Some caramel detected to. Very smooth and well balanced. The amarillo hops in this were balanced well. I like this hop but have seen it in other beers where it was too much in your face. Posibly the best Amber I ever had.

Reddish amber color. Aromas of mango, cashew nut bread; sweet, and lively. Very bitter flavor with lovely shades of pineapple atop notes of garlic and mint. Some pleasant toasted malt flavor underneath. Crisp and clean in the mouth; the perfect session.

Growler @ DLD: Poured a copper color with a white head. Some pine and caramel, in aroma and flavor, some citrus as well. Pretty hoppy for an amber, there was a dry bitter finish to this. Quite tasty.

American & English Caramel malts, all Amarillo hops. Clear, coppery-crimson appearance, under prodigious foam, cream-toned, off-whitish. Abundant Amarillo aroma, crisp orange/citrus/lime flavors, quite vibrant, and lively, mixing well with malt aromatics underneath. Malt flavors becomes more prominent once meeting the mouth, caramel and an undercurrent of chocolate, with the Amarillo hop flavors still skating on top, a great blend of sweet and bitter. Hoppier than a traditional amber, without quite the malt content, typical of Town Hall, which means nothing but delight for this drinker. More sessionable than than their normal pale ales and IPAs, but the hops keep the tongue happy. Toasty malt character, also keeps this one interesting. If this were fashioned like the Amarillo PA, or any of their singular hop variety ales, we’d see much paler malt used, I’m sure. I like the difference we see in this, as the blending of flavors from malt and hop are the dance that takes the spotlight. Take a bow!

I’m surprised by the low ratings. First, this is without a doubt a pale ale. This beer is very heavily hopped and I was thinking of Masala Mama while drinking it. Amber color, and that is the only thing amber about this beer. Bitter, but good hop flavor. Very heavily carbonated, and shot lived but tall white foam on top of the beer. A winner from Town Hall. I suggest a change to APA.

From cask at brew pub June 15, 2009. Clear amber with minimal head. Pretty tasty and a bit of alcohol going down, feeling stronger than a standard amber ale. I liked it - cheers!