Cheers H, really glad you enjoyed it. UKNHC Judging comments were much like yours; well made, no flaws but toffee malt instead of caramel which is “crucial to the style” according to one. Happy to score a 36 and a 37 with it.I’m pretty certain I’ve never before been sent a couple of Llamas but that’s exactly what happened a few days ago - @Alastair70 sent me a bottle of his 6.2% “2-Llamas” American Amber ale.
You can see in the picture this is a crystal clear ale with a beautiful deep copper colour. The healthy off white foamy head had great retention and stuck around for the whole pint. Carbonation is medium high.
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The aroma is a very inviting and slightly sweet smelling toffee with low spice and floral notes.
The flavour is much like the aroma with a little pine thrown in. The sweet toffee flavour has a nice burnt sugar quality to it like toffee that’s been cooked to the point of burning, which I quite like. The beer finishes with an assertive bitterness that lingers.
I wonder if the malt character might be a little strong for an American Amber (it isn’t really a style I’m very familiar with so I may be wrong here) but either way it was a very nice beer and I enjoyed drinking it. Thanks very much for a great start to my evening Alastair
Looks like the recipe for ‘3 Llamas’ needs drafting, most of my speciality malts are from Weyermann and getting the German/US substitutions right is taking a bit of tweaking.
I wouldn't say I'm lactose intolerant maybe a bottle was pushing it
keg free for the next beer in the fermenter 
Didn't see that
I have my one 15 years and it still makes the nicest toast (so the kids say) just swap the elements when they go and good as new.
