Alien Amber Ale - Sierra Blanca Brewing Company

    Alien is an Amber Ale brewed by the Sierra Blanca Brewing Company in Moriarty, New Mexico. Ever since the Roswell UFO incident in 1947, New Mexico has been a hotbed of supposed alien activity. The state attracts hundreds of UFO hunters per year, each one hoping to have even a "far-away encounter with the Third Kind". Is Alien Amber Ale a novelty that visitors are suckered into just like that plastic UFO on your desk, or will it turn out to be an out of this world beer drinking experience?

    The ale pours a brown-copper color with little to no head forming. A slight ring of bubbles forms where the glass and liquid meet. So far, there's nothing stellar about this beer.

    Alien has a light aroma of sweet caramel and lightly roasted malts. There's something sharp, almost sour about the scent that I find unpleasant.

    The Amber Ale is medium bodied with a medium level of carbonation. The beer has a much better mouthfeel than I had expected. It is actually nice and creamy rather than watery like I was afraid of. The ale has an alcohol content of 5.2% ABV, so it's not really going to make the alien's work any easier when it comes to abductions.

Friends don't let friends drink and fly.

    Alien Amber Ale tastes mainly of sweet caramel malts with just a bit of dark, roasted malt flavor. Similar to the nose, there is an almost sour flavor to the beer that is very off-putting. There is only a slight bit of hops bitterness to balance the beer's sweetness, and not enough to keep the brew from the too-sweet side of things.

    I don't know if this beer was brewed to lure UFO fanatics into buying it, or if it was introduced to humans by aliens as a means of subduing them long enough to experiment on their bodies and return them home with a new tattoo and text messages describing everything they did while they were "asleep". Either way, the beer's off-flavors aren't going to keep either intended target occupied long enough to get anything out of them.

    Now that my Alien autopsy is complete, you know to avoid this beer and it's possible creators' intentions! The beer's sweetness and strange flavors really don't make this an ale I'm looking forward to trying again. Pass this along to keep your friends from being probed!

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