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New England Brewing Atlantic Amber
Another day, another canned beer. Today I am moving away from Butternuts Beer and Ale and going with a brewery a little closer to home. New England Brewing is based out of Connecticut and has a line of three canned beers. Today I am going to tackle their Atlantic Amber.
First a quick note about the head for this beer. Though all the beers had sat in my beer fridge for at least a day, and all were handled the same way (ie I did not drop one or two by mistake), depending on which can I opened from the six pack the head varied greatly. Some cans had relatively no head (less then one finger), and others were bursting out of the can (three plus fingers of foam). Besides the variation in the head all the beers poured a dark red with some slight floating debris. For the beers with the greater head, there was definitely noticeable stickage once the foam had subsided down to a thin covering of small and medium sized bubbles.
The nose of the beer was a nice floral hop and caramel mixture, which got my mouth watering. In the mouth there was slight bitterness to the beer from the hops but this was nicely balanced with a sweet caramel and bread flavoring. The beer, which was light to medium in the mouth, had a nice refreshing and drying factor to it which I found very satisfying.
This is a good example of a quality beer found in a can. Definitely something that can be enjoyed in numerous places and occasions.
