Bridgeport Ropewalk Amber Ale
Okey Dokey, gonna do this one real time. I just poured it from a bottle, and in the sickly light of the monitor it looks delicious. Nice rich head, with a pleasant floral aroma with a little coppery note to it. Course anything cold and in my glass is going to look excellent, it hit 100 today. So I'm at the computer in stifling heat, just dying for this beer and as a service to you, the good reader, I am writing all this down. The first taste is a little disappointing, the mouth feel is a little thin, but the taste is pleasant enough. This beer is pretty well balanced, but could use maybe a little more maltyness to it. Maybe. Like all Bridgeport beers it is easy to drink, not too challenging, but it has enough character and surprise to it to make for good repeat drinking. This particular one is named "Ropewalk" because the brewery is located in an old rope factory. And has excellent pizza. That has nothing to do with this review, but it does remind me I should go eat pizza and drink beer there soon.
I'm not tasting the Ropewalk too well right now, as I am a little stuffed up from drinking too much on my friend's island. I actually drank enough that I thought it would be a good idea to spend the night in the diesel fume infested rear cabin of an old coast guard surplus crew ship. Now that is too much drinking.
As an aside, I carefully cleaned my nose as best I could so as to be able to taste this beer better. Most tasting actually occurs in the nose. So if your date ever orders a beer, then immediately says "I need to go clean my nose." and leaves for the bathroom, know that they are not coke addicts, and they are not bizarrely obsessed with snot removal, they simply want to taste the beer to the best of their abilities.
OK, back to the beer. It has a pleasant warmth to it, and the flavor sticks around for a pleasant amount of time without ever becoming cloying. It is smooth, and goes down nicely.
WDTB? Portlanders. This beer is fairly ubiquitously available, and reasonably priced as well. Plus we Portlanders have good local pride, and drink accordingly.
WSDTB? Amber fans. This is a nice, complex, yet not difficult in the least amber. Drink it if you dig ambers, as many people seem to.
Rating: 8.1/10
I'm not tasting the Ropewalk too well right now, as I am a little stuffed up from drinking too much on my friend's island. I actually drank enough that I thought it would be a good idea to spend the night in the diesel fume infested rear cabin of an old coast guard surplus crew ship. Now that is too much drinking.
As an aside, I carefully cleaned my nose as best I could so as to be able to taste this beer better. Most tasting actually occurs in the nose. So if your date ever orders a beer, then immediately says "I need to go clean my nose." and leaves for the bathroom, know that they are not coke addicts, and they are not bizarrely obsessed with snot removal, they simply want to taste the beer to the best of their abilities.
OK, back to the beer. It has a pleasant warmth to it, and the flavor sticks around for a pleasant amount of time without ever becoming cloying. It is smooth, and goes down nicely.
WDTB? Portlanders. This beer is fairly ubiquitously available, and reasonably priced as well. Plus we Portlanders have good local pride, and drink accordingly.
WSDTB? Amber fans. This is a nice, complex, yet not difficult in the least amber. Drink it if you dig ambers, as many people seem to.
Rating: 8.1/10
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