Twisted Pine American Amber Ale

Brewed by Twisted Pine Brewing
Style: Amber Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

on tap-pours a thin lumpy white head and amber/copper color. Aroma is sweet medium malt. Taste is sweet medium malt balanced with light, flat, biting hops. Good carbonation.

Stong nose of fruit and caramel, with a sticky sweet mouthfeel, and just a bit of piney resiny hops. Decent easy drinking amber.

4 oz sampler at the brewery, 4/15/06: Dark copper color. Slightly sugary but with a nice little metallic-hoppy bite. Categorized as a ’good’ American amber.

Tap. Pours caramel to light nut brown with a rocky off-white head. Aromas of cararmel malt with a fruit hop nose. Spotty lacing. Hoppy flavored with a malt body. Medium bodied palate.

White, frothy head. Good amber color. Hoppy, a little metallic in taste. A little watered down, which seems to be typical of Colorado beers.

Nice amber color with good bubbles. Bitterness is evident. Another typical amber from a western brewery: the beer is quite lean and needs more complexity.

The beer’s texture seems to start off crisp and effervescent, but it becomes a little thicker – and perhaps even chewier – toward the finish. At any rate, it’s really easy to quaff, and it would make a pretty decent session beer. It also tastes great with a barbecued burger ... brings out some of the beer’s woodsy and earthy notes. Malts provide a toasty, cookie-dough sweetness laced with caramel undertones. Malts are balanced by a complementing hop presence (light pine and spruce with a little citrus) that has a nice bitterness level to it (not too much, not too little). Flavorful aftertaste lingers like a welcomed guest. Nicely made beer. It’s best consumed fresh.

average amber with smooth finish and bitter finish, i like it but i dont need to have another.