Odell 90 Shilling Ale - Odell Brewing Company

bditty187

Nebraska

3.95/5  rDev +2.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5

Odell 90 Shilling is a great example of a top-notch American Amber Ale. The beer pours a really healthy looking brownish-rusty-amber. A whitish head of a finger tops off the brew. It doesn’t lace that much but the head never really disappears either. The nose never really develops much depth but subtle toasted malt, floral/pine hops, and a citrus note is detectable. The beer’s flavors are not lacking in the slightest. The malt & hops are balanced which yields a toasty-bittersweet, pine, and citrus zest taste. All of the flavors are laidback, which really works great. The carbonation is mild which enables this beer do go down smooth!

Drink-up folks!

Serving type: bottle

10-09-2002 18:59:04 | More by bditty187

beernut7

Massachusetts

3.75/5  rDev -3.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

This brew comes right off the brewery tap with a deep dark copper color and a foamy thick whitish head. The aroma is malty with a light hint of smoke and heavy spice hops. The body is smooth and supports a dry malt character and a lingering mellow bitterness. Not bad, a little too clean; could use a little more oomph.

Serving type: on-tap

09-23-2002 17:47:14 | More by beernut7

BeerBob

Nebraska

4.05/5  rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

90 Shilling “Colorado Ale” pours a dark red from a 12oz brown bottle. Head is tan and with firm small bubbles that leave lace down the glass sides.

Nose is malt and citrus, palate is malt and bittersweet chocolate with citrus and floral hops.

90 Shilling “Colorado Ale” is a stick to your ribs Ale, thick and luscious.

Serving type: bottle

09-09-2002 19:27:44 | More by BeerBob

NeroFiddled

Pennsylvania

3.93/5  rDev +1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Orange-brown in color with a cream colored head that holds up fairly well and leaves some nice Belgian-lace. The aroma is really pleasing with a sweet, maltiness that contains caramel, toffee and a touch of fruitiness. Almost like a combination of Munich and Brown malts, but not quite. Rich, but not aggressive. The body and carbonation level are appropriate. The flavor starts malty and fruity, dries a bit at mid swallow, and then gives a spritz of hop flavor before leading into a lightly bitter dryness. Quite Scottish in nature up to a point, but I find the hop flavor unusual. The choice of hops seems a little odd. Still, a good beer.

Serving type: bottle

07-25-2002 08:10:02 | More by NeroFiddled

Jordan

California

3.9/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

90 Shilling is an excellent amber. A richer and heavier body than most ambers. Brown sugar, pepper and pine create an unusually taste-flavor palate (reminds me of red rocket by bear republic only more subdued). This is good beer, but nothing exceptional about it.

Serving type: bottle

07-10-2002 09:07:39 | More by Jordan

Murph

Arizona

4/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours a nice amber color with a decent off white head. Smell is malty and somewhat english hoppy character. Nice malt and hops are present in this ale. Subtler english hops balance out the mellow malt for a very well balanced beer that tastes good. Nice and smooth and very drinkable. Probably the best amber that I have tasted. Very nice.
Thanks to Jaybeerman for the sample.

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2002 14:09:44 | More by Murph

marc77

California

4.43/5  rDev +14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

There are a myriad of ambers out there, but this one ranks among the best. To me this defines the style, but improves on it. A pronouced hop bitterness (for an amber) and flavor is perfectly balanced by a mellow but significant caramel malt profile. With an almost "chewy" maltiness and full body to complements the hop profile, 90 Shilling exhibits a rich balance. Lightly earthy hop flavor seems to be combination of Goldings and Willamette. It finishes with a slight toasty caramel sweetness on the back of the tongue. An excellent and highly drinkable amber. It's akin to an ESB minus the fruitiness.

Serving type: bottle

03-18-2002 23:35:50 | More by marc77

gwfrankpsu

California

4.85/5  rDev +25.3%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5

This is great stuff!! Wonderful flavor, a taste of the west.

Serving type: bottle

09-01-2001 11:58:54 | More by gwfrankpsu

Jason

Massachusetts

4.35/5  rDev +12.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Presentation: 12 oz brown long neck bottle with a bottling date in the bottom left hand corner of the label. Label has a blurb about the beer.

Appearance: Tawny and tarnish copper hue with a well formed and healthy looking head that does not falter even when down to the bottom of the glass.

Smell: Subdued fruitiness, noticeable citric hop with hints of mint or evergreen in the aroma … sweet toasted biscuit nose also.

Taste: Moderate body with a very smooth mouth feel from a milder carbonation. Right away the hops and malt push each other back and forth for domination though neither gains any more ground that it already has which shows for a balanced beer. Hop bitterness is at a spot on level with a citric and vague minty flavour to boot. The malt profile is just enough to carry the beer all the way through, going from sweet caramel twang to the drying toasted grain character in the end. Hints of citrus rind and toasted husks make up the finish.

Notes: A proud beer that was crafted for maximum drinkability and a superb balance. This is what American Amber ales are all about.

Serving type: bottle

01-27-2001 09:21:22 | More by Jason