Mendocino Red Tail Ale

Brewed by Mendocino Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Hopland, California USA

It’s a decent, mild ale. Not the fullest in flavor, but it has a good piney flavor to it. Nothing to write home about, like Mendo’s Eye of the Hawk

Iced tea and grass nose. Mildly carameized and softly bitter on the palate with some earth cream corn notes. Dry iced tea finish.

This is a good, solid stand-by in my area and I first had it some years ago but don’t remember when. It is amber with a decent off-white head that dissipates to a thin ring. The aroma is yeasty bread & a hint of wine. The taste is mostly earthy, caramel malt and sweetness with a good body, fairly full palate, with light hop flavour and bitterness. It’s smooth and mellow, easy to drink, and rather like an English bitter.

Pour is a red with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of hops with some caramel malts. Flavor is not as good. Some earthy malts with a caramel malt backbone. Nothing really great but decent for the brewer.

12oz bottle from 10 pack world market sampler... very light color for an amber ale.. white head... simple aroma, hints roasted hops but nothing overpowering.. very smooth well balanced initial hit, a small degree of piney, toasty hoppiness at the tail end but no bite or aftertaste.. the bark is bigger than the bite but not a bad little brew....

Cashew, walnut, and pineapple aroma, a touch yeasty. Slightly cloudy ochre color, thin yellow head, nice laing. Nutty vanilla flavor, not sweet, with definite bark notes. A rather rusty brew. Subdued grapefuit peel finish. Although this is not a great offering, I really like this brewer.

I liked this one better than their other beers. Strong flavor, much hoppier than I expected. More bitterness than their IPA. It could have used a little more malt balance, but the flavor was good. Light bodied and well carbonated.

re-rated: old rating 6/2/6/3/11 - 2.8 from nov 13, 2007. new rating: purchased at red apple in bremerton. pours a clear amber-orange with a very thin dirty white head that goes away quickly. smell is faint grass, some hops, touch of spice. taste is dry, grain, citrus, with a little grass, dirt, sour, hops in the back, a little metallic.