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Grand Teton “Teton Ale” Amber
Today from the Beer of the Month Club, we have an offering from the Western part of our fair land, and our first entry from the Grand Teton Brewing Company. This is a fairly straightforward genre – an amber ale, and looks to be their flagship brew.
The Teton Ale pours a clear but exceptionally deep amber tone with a rocky caramel head that flares up, only to dissipate into small off-white islands floating around the surface of the beer. In the nose, there are predominantly rich malt flavors of caramel and toffee with just a hint of aniseed bite. In the mouth, this is a rich and sweet amber ale. Again, we get a ton of toffee flavors, some aniseed bitterness, and just a hint of hop bite. Surprisingly, the mouthfeel of this beer is smooth, thin, and washes fairly clean. In contrast, the flavor is thick and rich and almost cloying. It’s a pretty good amber really. The flavor is bigger than most, and, though the texture washes very clean, the flavor sticks around for quite some time after the beer disappears. So, consider this a beer on the lighter side of dessert-style ambers. A mighty tasty brew, perhaps worthy of the grandiose mountain range it’s meant to represent.
