UPDATED: FEB 23, 2020 12oz bottle at Pizza Port, Carlsbad, CA on 30/04/2008. A malty amber with grainy and biscuity notes and some hop bitterness.

On tap at an Irish bar. Pours amber. Biscuit, caramel, orange peel, bread. Medium body. Fine.

Tasty and smooth amber that goes down easy. Found it at the dealership. Great place.

From tap at Drake’s Dealership, Oakland. Clear amber color with small light beige head. Malty and light hoppy aroma, caramel, bread, grassy. sweet and bitter taste. Light to medium oily body with soft carbonation.

Bottle 35.5cl. Poured into s shaker. Clear deep amber, tall frothy off-white to beige head, half-way lasting, good lacing; aroma light toasted malts, caramel, fruity notes, wet hay; taste light sweet and bitter, malty, burned caramel; dry malty aftertaste, earthy notes; medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation; ok.

355ml bottle. Clear, dark ruby colour with average, frothy, half-way lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Slightly fruity hoppy and chocolately malty aroma, hints of red berries and milk chocolate. Taste is mildly toasty grainy, chocolately malty, minimally nutty, slightly dry hoppy, fruity overtones, hints of red berries, subtle sweetness. Slightly inharmonious, somehow unconnected hop and malt flavours, beyond that cleaned up to an excessive state of conformity that repudiates any sign of provenience and peculiarity (not to mention the word "idiosyncrasy").

Smells a little of treacle and malt and had a similar taste. Amber colour with lasting head. Nice malty taste with nice amount of fizz. (K)

Overnight Drakes started popping up in Seattle, and for this I am grateful. Draft pour pint at Toranado Seattle. Solid amber here, and has what I look for in one. Pours a deep dark thick brown with an infinite foam head and lacing. Soft malt forward aroma. Creamy body with a nutty malt lingering flavor. Very cream centered. Very tasty beer in a style I tend to avoid. Impressed with this one.

Bottled . Low boost brown . Malty toffee or caramel covered Apple nose . Decent foamy white head above bronze . Notes of grassy hops, chocolate , toffe covered butterscotch , paint and low boost shit like they .fuck u I’m moving to California

On tap (Lucky 13). I knew this would be a West Coast take on an amber beer and many of Drake’s brews are over hopped for my taste but I liked this. Too dark indoors to see the color but it gave the impression of being on the darker edge of "amber." Smooth; malts and hops in relative balance, at least by Northwest standards. Neither cloyingly sweet nor painfully bitter. Liked it and will try it again next time I’m in.