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Wolf Hills Creeper Trail Amber Ale


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RATINGS: 8   MEAN: 3.38/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.1   EST. CALORIES: 144   ABV: 4.8%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
For many decades, a Norfolk & Western train "creeped" along the steep grade between Abingdon and North Carolina, allowing its passengers the time to take in the beautiful scenery. Today, the railbed has been converted into a trail along which bikers, runners and hikers enjoy views of open farmland, cool laurel forests and stately trestles that cross mountain streams. Resembling the orange and red hues of the Creeper Trail on a warm fall day, this amber ale is focused on sweet caramel malt flavors layered on a solid Munich and biscuit malt backbone. These smooth malt flavors are intertwined like Virginia Creeper vines with a strong dose of bittering Magnum and floral aroma and flavor hops.

4.8% ABV, 32 IBU, 12 SRM

-American Pale malts with Munich, Caramel 45 and 120, and biscuit malt. Magnum, cascade, and centennial.


3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
jbruner (3043) - Athens, Georgia, USA - DEC 27, 2014
Pours a clear amber brown on tap with dissipating tan head that leaves light lace. Aroma is biscuit and pale malts with a hint of earthy hops. Taste follows, clean and easy, but nothing all that exciting. Soft carbonation, creamier mouth.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 13/20
BeerdedDave (971) - - SEP 21, 2014
on tap at Blue Blaze Pizza in Damascus; deep amber color; piney hop and caramel malt aroma; I thought I detected a little buttery note in the aroma, which thankfully did not appear in the flavor; a well balanced, medium bodied beer; caramel, bready malt with a good dose of piney hops

4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 17/20
rangerred (989) - Johnson City, Tennessee, USA - DEC 11, 2011
Arrived a clear copper with a one finer light tan head. Decent lacing. Aroma is earthy hops with a bit of caramel malt. The taste is loaded with toffee and caramel from the malt with an earthy hop flavor coming in later. There is a moderate hoppy bitterness. The hoppiness is greater than I expected and is almost more like an APA. Overall I think the balance between malt and hops was very good and I would definitely have this beer again.

3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
nearbeer (4298) - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - NOV 18, 2011
Draft at the Casual Pint. Dark red-brown with a lasting half-inch of creamy foam. Nose is dark toasted nut (almost charred), caramel and a hint of orange. Flavor is the same, except more so. Light-medium body is well-balanced and has medium carbonation.

3.3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
Suttree (5646) - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - JUN 26, 2011
Coppery brown (some would call it "amber", I suppose) with a white head. Nice herbal, lightly smokey aroma. Grassy hops with an earthy finish. Tasty and a little hoppier than I was expecting. Pretty tasty, I had a couple of samples. Knoxville Brewfest.

2.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
Drake (10949) - Free Union, Virginia, USA - MAR 4, 2010
Sampled on draft at the brewery. Pours a clear peach color with nearly no head. Aroma is toffee, caramel and a faint buttery note. Taste is caramel, grain and some peach-like fruit notes. Faintly watery, thin-medium bodied.

3.2
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
jcwattsrugger (11613) - Florida and, New Jersey, USA - FEB 24, 2010
on tap-pours a retaining tan head that laces and dark amber color. Aroma is medium malt-caramel, orange/herbal. Taste is medium malt-caramel, orange/herbal. Finishes dry.

3.5
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
lithy (2996) - Capital of Appalachia, Pennsylvania, USA - DEC 16, 2009
Red-brown, creamy beige head. Aroma is sweet, grassy. Taste is sweet again, caramel and apple, grassy hops.


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