Maritime Pacific Flagship Red Alt Ale

Brewed by Maritime Pacific Brewing Co.
Style: Amber Ale
Seattle, Washington USA

Are you kidding me? This beer is fabulous! Nice sour malt aroma. Red amber in color with quick head. Filtered. The flavor is fantastic - and all over the place - sweet cherries, wheat and nuts, balanced with PacNW hops. Easy drinking with a nice crisp apple finish. Great brew! props to Andre’!

Aroma is slightly malty (caramel) with a lot of hops spicyness. Begining is sweet and finish bitter. Bitterness does not last very long. Nice amber color with a thin head. Maritime also has this dry hopped at the brewery - which makes the hops more hoppy, and me more happy. Arrrh.

On tap @ the brewpub. Pours clear copper with off white head and some nice lacing. It has a pleasing malty aroma of roasted malts, caramel and nuttiness to go along with a faint hint of buttered bread. The taste has a nice mix of roasted malts, caramel and mild nuttiness. I also get some sweet molasses and a hint of pine hops wondering around deep in the background. Tasty malty brew with enough roasted malt dryness and mild hoppiness to keep the varied malty sweetness in check.

On tap at Jolly Roger (Brewery). Aroma is light, with sweet malt forward and breadlike notes; medium hop aroma. Beer is clear, copper-gold, with a well retained white head. Flavor is slightly hop forward, but with good maltiness, nutty, with some corn-like notes. has medium body, low carbonation texture, and a slightly resiny aftertaste. Overall, fairly good and to style, but the resiny touches and other perceived non-fermentables don’t make it very easy drinking.

This was the last of the 3 I tried while visiting here. The appearance was very dark for a an amber, with an average creamy head. The taste is kind of peppery with ints of clove and ginger and cinnamon. A slightly sweet somewhat bitter aftertaste. This was very good, but again a mood beer.

Very good for a beer that is allegedly their best seller. It had a red-orange appearance under an average sized head. This medium bodied beer was crispy on the tongue and had a unique plum taste to it...slightly bitter finish....not bad.

7/13/02: Very light malty nose with a hint of fruit--very pleasant, but as Marinaro suggests, ’Sniff hard.’ Color is a hazy dark red-amber--head is moderate, rocky, lots of lace. Flavor starts with sweet malt, fairly mild, then a tang (from wheat malt perhaps?) accompanied by mellow hop bitterness. Not much top-end here. Finish is dry but fairly flavorless. Too bad, because this brew starts out very well, then seems to quit. Still, it isn’t bad, and its ultimate mildness might make it a good substitute for a blond ale or lager for the uninitiated palate...(again, cudos to the astute Marinaro). Re-Rate 10/13/02: The malt nose is noticeably more pronounced this time around, as is its presence as the leading flavor contributor...I liked this quite a bit better than in my initial exposure, with appropriate ratings adjustment...Ambers are not generally amongst my favorites, but this one now rates above average in this group.

Bright red color. Not very assertive flavor, but not bad either. Very smooth maltiness is rounded out by a moderate amount of hops--although I didn’t really taste much flavor from the hops other than straight bitter.