Triumph Amber Ale

Brewed by Triumph Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Princeton, New Jersey USA

Re:rate Princeton Location. Aroma is of fresh PNW hops, sticky pine and citrus- aroma is not very strong, just right for the style. Taste is also fresh citrus and pine hops, lightly resiny and balances perfectly with the malt backbone of this beer. usually ambers are very ordinary, but this was really well done.

4 oz. taster at New Hope, PA location. Pours amber with a long lasting, off white head, aroma is of slight citrus, and sweet caramel/malt, taste is slightly sweet caramel, quickly changes to a slightly bitter finish.

Sampled on draught at the New Hope, PA location. Pours to a beautiful, bright, deep amber color, with a thick and creamy, white head, and a moderate amount of carbonation. The nose is fragrant with lots of good citrus, and pine aroma, paired with some sweet and stewed malt aroma. Palate is firm, with good sweet malt, pale malt, caramel, and estery/juicy fruit flavors. This beer finishes with good sweet malt and fruit flavor up front, then ends with some zesty pine and citrus hop bitterness that lingers on the tongue. Good balance of hops and sweet/caramel malt aromas and flavors. This is a great example of an amber ale, and makes for a nice pint at the bar in New Hope.

This was probably my favorite beer on tap at the triumph location when I was there a couple days ago. Pours a medium clear amber with a nice lasting head. Aroma is loaded with citrus hops, with just a touch of crystal malts. Full flavor balanced with fresh bready malts, caramel, toasted malts, and lot of hops. Nice smooth light bitter finish. Most amber ales are so boring, but this is so well made, that it was very enjoyable.

Lots of caramel, mild biscuit in nose. Start clean, somewhat thin, malty segueing sharply into a Cascade finish. To its credit, more resin than grapefruit, which makes this palatable, but just so-so.

on tap-pours a creamy light tan head that laces. Amber color. Aroma is mild malt, grassy, citrus. Taste is malt, backed up with a good hop taste/bite. Medium body.

Grapefruit, earthy, leafy, cascade hop signature in the nose. Deep copper coloured body with low white head that recedes to partial cover. Very leafy, grapefruit hop flavour with moderate bitterness and some underlying caramel malts. Light medium body with very strong carbonation that prickles the tongue. Sampled on tap at the Pennsylvania location of the brewpub with beerbuzzmontreal, MartinT, Rastacouere and Yowie.

Not bad. Kind of your basic beer. Fairly hoppy, but kind of unremarkable flavor-wise. Like the reviewer said before me, kind of a transparent beer, chuggable but not something you can savor.

On tap at the New Hope location:

The Lure:
Overtly Cascade-y hop fruitiness benefiting from vague caramel malt sweetness. This one has a singular purpose, and it is announced loud and clear.

The Festivities:
Leafy hop bitterness is nagging, somewhat like their ESB’s was today. Feeble-bodied, made for chugging, with plenty of hop flavors. Not the most boring amber ale, but a weird and hoppy one.

Transcendence:
It’s hard to hear you talking with all that noise.