Mendocino Red Tail Ale

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

bottle, dark amber pour, head is light, flavors of dark fruit, malts and a thin hoppy finish

Bottle. Pours a dark amber with a off-white head. Aroma of earthy hops, light caramel, and a hint of fruitness. Flavor is medium bodied and mainly malty with notes of molasses and caramel sweetness with a average bitter finish

sampled at the end of tasting. Pours cloudy / amber. Aroma and taste, grains, yeasty, malty finish. Light hops. Nothing special.

sampled at a bevmo tasting dark amber, nice head, sticky sweet carmel like finish, an ok beer

Bottle: Deep copper pour with a creamy tan lacing head. Soft malts in the nose. Nice balance of toasted notes and caramel; fresh and bready with a very light citrus hop note. Has a nice fluffy/creamy feel. Has a soft sweetness from the malts- substantial and bready with a sweet resiny American hop character. Some toasted notes as well with a pretty solid American hop resiny note in the finish. Let this stuff warm; it’s better than I expected.

Pours a hazy amber with a thin white head. Mild aromas of bread and fig with a distinct hop bouquet of limes. On the tongue it’s mostly a sharp alpha tingle towards the back of the tongue with a bit of light maltiness to round it out. The body is a bit too thin. In some ways this makes me think of a watered down tripel with some boiling hops thrown in.

(bottle): Pours an orangish body, small white head, quickly diminishing. Malty fruity aroma, fizzy. Very enticing. Fizzy malty nutty taste. A litte bitter/sourness. Nice soft mouthfeel.

Great initial flavor, fizzles off a bit towards mid/end of the bottle, not the bad a all compared to some other domestic "ales." 6.1% + very drinkable = a great U.S. beer! Cheers!