Alaskan Amber
The name of this beer style comes from the German word “alt” meaning “old”. This refers to the aging that alts undergo since they ferment more slowly and at colder temperatures than most ales. Slow fermentation helps condition the flavors in Alaskan Amber, contributing to its overall balance and smoothness.
3.3
1245 reviews
Juneau, United States
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Malty aroma. Raisins, caramel, toast, mild spice.
Clear redish amber, ample rising bubbles. Tall, thick, creamy off-white head with excellent retention. Strings and loops of lacing. Very attractive.
Mild flavor, starts a bit sweet, nutty, malty, touch of spice and toast. The interplay of flavors carry through, with a just detectable hop bite to balance the overall maltiness. Tending toward moderately dry on the finish. Spice and toast remain in the aftertaste.
Feel is a bit thin, but not overly so for the style. Nice carbonation.
Overall, a tasty amber/alt, good flavor, and just enough from the hops to keep it balanced, providing an almost dry finish.
This is my first Alaskan Amber since visiting Alaska several years ago. Offered to me in a bottle by a good friend in Las Vegas, no glass this time. A drink, pretty decent. Your basic amber taste but maybe a bit better. Wheat bread, some caramel, malt, water and grain with a nice small bitterness. Cold is good, colder is better.
Süffiger, süßlich herber Beginn. Weich, spritzig, milde Fruchtnoten. Röstig herber, süßlich würziger Abgang. Nett. 10/11/11/11/13/11
Medium brown, light brown head. Medium palate. Tastes of caramel, toasted nuts, hint of herbal funk. Glad to have tried this classic.
Draft at the Hoppy Monk in El Paso, Texas.
Keg at The Yardhouse, San Diego, CA on 22/04/2008. This is just a great beer; not a wild crazy one, but a really well made example of the style.
Fantastic Amber ale! It’s rich and bitter like most beers but with a hint of sweet and almost tangy
Aroma of fruit esters and light caramel malt. Taste is light fruit esters with some malt. Easy drinker with mild carbo and smooth mouthfeel. Very balanced and fine amber/altbier. Great beer to session, and to encourage BMC drinkers to transition.
Bottle from SHIG. Cheers ears. Sour berry aroma. Dark amber. Frothy creamy off-white head. Medium sweet. Some underlying bitterness. Rich. Fruit and caramel. Medium bodied. Slick. Fizzy carbonation. Long finish. Rich and sweet rather than saccharine sweet which is fine with
me. The kind of lager you'd want to drink on a cold Alaskan night (whatever that means).
Acheté par mes parents au Percy’s liquor store en Alaska. Il s’agit d’une très belle rousse avec un beau col blanc très persistant. Il s’en dégage des odeurs de caramel et de bois. Très légère au goût, on perçois notamment des saveurs de vanille avec une touche boisé. Il y a une très fine amertume en finale. Certaines saveurs me rappel (très modestement) la Chimay Bleu. Très bonne bière !! Vive l’Alaska.
Can. Caramel malt aroma with notes of nutty malt, bread and biscuit. Pours clear amber colored with a thin tan head that has little retention or lacing. Starts with bread and biscuity malt flavor. Finishes smooth and crisp with sweet caramel and nutty malt flavors. Solid amber.
I had this at Global Brew. Pours amber with a off white head. Taste malty, sweet, bread/biscuit. I thought this was good. I would drink this again.
Tap @ Dungeness Bay Seafood, Sea-Tac, Terminal S. Pours a clear chestnut amber, small off-white foam atop. Gentle woody, caramelised malt nose. Taste is relatively light, balanced, good caramel shades, nutty moments, balanced malty amber character. Hit the spot waiting for my flight.
1st taster at the brewery tour, starting with their initial flagship beer, an amber ale.
I've worked my way thru the Sampler Pak now and I can tell you: the "A" in Alaskan stands for "ACID"
Every one of their beers is loaded up with acid (probably citric acid?) so they can be "crisp"
They aren't fooling anybody.
Alaskan is not a real brewer.
Yes, Altbier is supposed to be dry, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't taste like anything. Maltiness is hidden behind the alcohol taste and only some bitterness remains.
Pours clear amber with a thin light tan head. Aroma is dried fruit, caramel and light roast. Taste is caramel and plum, moving to roast. Finish is plum and roast.
Dark amber, almost copper color and hardly any head. It,s hard for me to rate this beer as for me, this beer is not an alt. Much to sweet.
Easy drinkable amber. One of my favorite ambers. Very smooth. It's very good.
Nice clean amber color. Rich and malty aroma. Not strong at all but not too watery/weak.
Lovely clear bronze appearance. Good start but what followed was a bit dissapointing. Poured with a small head and a medium body. Not a lot of flavour or complexity. Good start but faded. Bit of a let down.although its a reasonable score I felt that it should have been higher.
Aroma and flavor are the same. Shows dry caramelish malt, nutty hops, earthy. Medium body. Old school
Out of a 12 oz bottle, often. Decided to review tonight after drinking this beer semi-regularly. Aroma is caramely, fruity, very slightly toasty. A great, solid ale that has become what "amber ales" compare to in my mind a lot of the time. Nice rusty color, good typical amber flavors, widely available. If you go into a tiny liq store in the US that mostly carries Bud/Coors/Miller, and their selection of imports consists of Heineken and Corona, if they have 2, maybe 3 "craft" beers, chances are good that one of them will be Alaskan. Just get that.
This is where I started my craft beer journey. Drank a fair amount of this while I lived in Alaska. Pretty decent brew, in my opinion. Obviously, there are better ones than this, but this will always be special to me.
Ar: Tangy caramel; moderate fruitiness, mostly pineapple and red apple; a little toast. Ap: Deep amber-orange; clear; medium off-white head with moderate retention, settles into a thin layer of foam. T: Toast, sticky caramel, and red apple; medium sweetness; lemon and moss hop flavor, with a medium bitterness; some licorice and dried pineapple; finish is burnt caramel and candy apple. M: Medium body with high carbonation; round and satisfying; medium-dry finish. O: A textbook example of an American amber ale; sweet caramel, rounded malt, firm but not overpowering bitterness, and very drinkable.
Bottle poured into an altbier glass on 1/18/19. Orangey amber color and a small off white head. Aroma is malty and sweet. Initial taste is barley and a little rye. Aftertaste is a little nutty. Lively carbonation. Body is a little thin. Decent.
Alaskan Amber in bottle is good but if you try it on tap, it's sooo much better, it's very flavourful and refreshing. One of the best American beers!
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Nice and crisp. Sweet. Not too bitter.
Draft shaker at EvenFlow, Geneva. Damn, but this is a fine beer! Draft is a nice bright brown color, with a half-finger spongy head. Smell brings up nice deep malts, caramel with a bit of chocolate, and a light German noble hop nose.
The taste shows its "alt" character up front. Roasty but mellowed malts. I'm thinking there's a bit of oats here for smoothness, but I see no evidence otherwise. The maltiness also makes this feel a little higher in alcohol than its "average" abv. No "spice," just caramel again, and a bit of cocoa. Hops are fully in balance, with perhaps a sidecar of Cascades to make it interesting.
Draft at the Jenny Lake Lodge. Pleasant amber altbier with lots of malt flavours