Thomas Creek Appalachian Amber Ale

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Brick orange & clear, rocky (if thin) cap. Aroma of roasted fruits, caramel, & lemon on toast. Very fruity flavor with a light herb bitterness, grassiness, & bubblegum at the back. I found this more pleasant than some other reviewers. Serious lacing, but wet mouthfeel with only a touch of stickiness. Not awful, not great.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Bottled@Bishops Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm. Ruby red colour, small head. Aroma is caramel, bready malts, and also has some slight hoppyness. Flavour is caramelly, bready, biscuity along with some grassy and mildly floral hoppy notes. Mild cardboardy dryness as well.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

On tap @ Knights Pizza, Johnson City. True amber pour, clear, with a short-lived head and sporadic lacing. Light malty aroma with a bit of caramel malts and some hops. Taste is slightly sweet malts with a light hops bitter to offset. Easy to drink.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Hoppier and fruitier than I would have imagined. I was expecting more sweet malts and got this instead. Not overly hateful, just not what I was expecting from the type. Pours an average amber color with a light head and slight lacing. Flavor was lacking.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Looks like a typical clear amber, but a little more appetizing than most. Aroma is strong and smoothly hoppy, not outstanding but still inviting. Flavor is rich and overwhelmingly malty - hardly any hop bitterness and exceptionally smooth. This is one beer worth savoring.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Looking at my tasting notes, the one word that jumps out at me is "blecch". I just didn't like this beer at all. Too fruity in the nose, an over-carbonated mouthfeel (I was thinkin' seltzer water) and a wet cardboard taste, with a hint of sweet caramel to it. So far, the Thomas Creek stuff has failed to deliver anything that I found intriguing.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

I bought a six pack of this in town it's brewed in, so hopefully it was pretty fresh. Everything about it was pretty average, but it had a strange fruitiness to it that I didn't care for very much. The mouthfeel was pretty tingly. Mildly hoppy with a touch of caramel along with the fruit. The finish was a little bitter.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

This seems to be the hoppier version of the red. It's definitely better and more interesting. Relatively clear amber body. Ok head. A bit of tingling hops in the aroma keep the malt from being too dull.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Sampled from bottle, a gift from Dansting. Pours relatively clear orange-amber with a creamy tan head. Aroma is dominated by toasted malts with some ripe fruit notes. Flavor is clean and malty with a hint of citrus. Balance leans towards sweet. Medium-ligh body and light carbonation. An all-around good beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Pours a nice, true amber color with good clarity and a thick, fomy head. Light doughy malts form the base flavor with a subtle fruittiness and a hint of hops rounding out the beer. My only real complaint was a metallic twang in the finish, which I suspect isn't present in the draught version. It's light bodied (maybe a little too thin), well-carbonated and smooth.