Amber Ale

For some reason this is a style that I have seemed to skip over a lot when making beer, not sure why, but I tend to keep towards the pale ales. So today I am making my second batch of an amber ale. My hope for his batch is to have the biscuit/malty taste of an amber, but I am going to include a lot of the hop characteristics of pale's and ipa's with some fruity/citrusy hops.

Although I have been working on a pale ale being the flagship beer, I want to experiment with some of the other more popular styles as possible PBC mainstays. Fat Tire and Mac and Jacks have found their own dominance in the beer market and there could be room for another. No ideas as of yet for possible names, so suggest em if you got em.

UPDATE 12/29: Kegged and force carbonated this beer. Color is a little on the dark side for an amber and the malt profile is a little lacking. The hop schedule used is great, but it might be a bit on the hoppy side for an amber. The beer also is missing some of the malt base to back up the amount of hops used, so a combination of decreasing the hops and increasing the malts should help this beer out quite a bit. Beer about perfect for ABV (5%) so I will have to tweak the recipe accordingly to increase the maltiness without significantly increasing the ABV.