Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company Northwoods Amber

Northwoods Amber

 

Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸

Lager - Amber / Vienna Regular
Score
7.06
ABV: 4.9% IBU: 18 Ticks: 1
Malt forward amber lager with Cascade & Cluster hops

Originally introduced in 1986, Northwoods Amber quickly became a fan favorite in coolers across the country. In fact, Northwoods Amber has won a gold medal in 1993 at the Great American Beer Festival® in the Premium Lager category. It’s made with some of the finest quality ingredients, including some hops, barley, oats and water from right here in Wisconsin.
 

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7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle into lager glass, best before 3/26/2018. Pours crystal clear golden amber color with a 1 finger dense and rocky off white head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with bready malt and light earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of cracker, white bread dough, and lightly toasted biscuit; with light notes of honey, nuttiness, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Mild herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread dough, biscuit, light honey/nuttiness, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness of bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, fairly crisp, and lightly sticky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.9%. Overall this is a delicious pale lager. All around nice robustness of bready malt and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink. Flavorful and not watery for the ABV. Clean and nicely rich Pils/Munich malt flavors, with just enough earthy hops to balance. Drinks more like a Helles to me. A really enjoyable offering, and great style example.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Feb 2018 at 00:34