Endangered Beer Styles: Amber ale, the once-ubiquitous brewpub staple that continues to fade away, and a symbol of a more balanced era. craftbeer beertwitter
When I first dove head-first into the world of craft beer more than a decade ago, the idea that an American brewery would choose to get by without an “amber ale” or “red ale” still seemed like a quaint notion.
Of course, this isn’t to say that amber ale/red ale is somehow extinct. Breweries still produce large amounts of malty, ruddy amber beer every year, and customers continue to drink them … albeit, in decreasing quantities each year. 2019 was no different, as amber ale/amber lagerto begin the year, with no reason to believe the trend is reversing.
Amber ale, then, tends to be what we’d call a “standard strength” style, which treads in the middle ground between hop-forward American pale ale and malt-forward brown ale or porter/stout. It’s less defined by hop flavors than pale ale, but tends to be hoppier than the average brown ale or porter. Everything about it is very “middle ground”—in order to really be an amber ale, it can’t be as hoppy as pale ale or as dark as brown ale.
At their best, American amber ales offer a subtle profile of mild sweetness, toasty malt, mild caramelization, pleasantly subtle hoppiness and a sense of fullness of body that goes beyond what you expect to experience in pale ale. They were brewpub mainstays for a reason—they went great with pub grub and appealed to just about everyone, including customers who were turned off by the hop bitterness of pale ale/IPA or were skittish about the imposing, darker colors of brown ale, porter and stout.
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