Beer Of the Week-Fat Tire Amber Ale

Each week we will feature a new beer, we invite you to try it out and post your comments, we want to know what you think! Help us guide the best beer menu on the West Side!

Post you comments here or on Facebook and Twitter. Coming each month, our beer buddies will come to impart their knowledge of the suds from all over! Learn a little, taste a little and enjoy weeks selection is Fat Tire, regularly priced at $4, this week $2.50 icey cold!

Named in honor of our founder Jeff’s bike trip through Belgium, Fat Tire Amber Ale marks a turning point in the young electrical engineer’s home brewing. Belgian beers use a far broader palette of ingredients (fruits, spices, esoteric yeast strains) than German or English styles. Jeff found the Belgian approach freeing. Upon his return, Jeff created Fat Tire and Abbey Belgian Ale, (assuming Abbey would be his big gun). He and his wife, Kim traveled around sampling their homebrews to the public. Fat Tire’s appeal quickly became evident. People liked everything about it. Except the name. Fat Tire won fans with its sense of balance: toasty, biscuit-like malt flavors coasting in equilibrium with hoppy freshness.