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Sprecher Amber Lager
I gotta be honest with you – I’m surprised that Beer of the Month Club has now, for two months running, been able to deliver 4 beers per month, none of which I’ve ever reviewed before. I mean, honestly, I taste a lot of beers, and these days I review most of ‘em. So, hats off to BOMC for being creative enough to manage some fairly obscure and tasty beers for their selections. This is the final selection this month, an amber lager from a Milwaukee brewery, but not one of those Milwaukee brewers…
The Sprecher pours a filtered amber, and has a thin white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma of this is fairly simple – it’s full of dark malt with light caramel. In the mouth, this is also a fairly simple amber ale. There is a very rich mouthfeel and a fairly decadent flavor for an amber. The flavor is full of rich dark malts and a caramel sweetness, and the aftertaste is sweet with a lingering light hop bitterness. So, yeah, this is a pretty simple beer by most cases, but it is quite a good beer and, honestly, it’s a little richer than the ambers I’m accustomed to. So, my best characterization of this beer would be that it is a standard amber in slightly richer garb – all the attributes are the same, but this one turns them up to 11. All in all a good beer, despite the fact that there isn’t too much new to say about it… And, oh yeah, this one is a lager, whereas many such ambers are ales. I dunno if that’s what makes the difference, but it’s worth noting!
