Tugboat Brewing Co. Reviews

zabrazasca	3.6 Tugboat Hop Gold Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Beese	3.5 Tugboat Munich Bock Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 27/09/2010. I’m not sure I’d had any kind of lager from Tugboat prior to this. It was actually very pleasant, and pretty on point for a good maibock. Not really sure Munich is super famous for its bocks, but never mind. Saturday, September 5, 2020
Beese	3.2 Tugboat E.S.B. Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 27/09/2010. The Cascade hopping turns this into quite the hybrid of concept. Way more assertively hopped than any ESB in the U.K. back then. There was a decent malty undertone, though. Saturday, September 5, 2020
Beese	3.3 Tugboat T-Bolt Pale Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 27/09/2010. A pretty solid pale ale, and I think more balanced than examples I’d had in previous years. More delicate hop interplay and reserved bitterness. Good malty roundness. Saturday, September 5, 2020
Beese	3.1 Tugboat Amber Schmamber Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 07/09/2009. A very quaffable amber ale, with some grainy, cereal notes on the nose and slight perfumed hop. Fairly dry. Saturday, June 13, 2020
Beese	3.9 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 07/09/2009. Didn’t get to try it in ‘08. I realise that this beer completely varied from one brew to the next, but this was really tasty when I had it. Thick, and full of roasted malt, molasses, treacle, tobacco and slight smoky notes. Saturday, June 13, 2020
Beese	3 Tugboat Flower Power Pale Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 31/08/2009. Fairly easy going pale ale. Some peppery hop notes on the nose, and moderate bitterness in the flavour. Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Beese	3.5 Tugboat Porter Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 31/08/2009. A fine, pretty straight up Porter. Roasty and big chewy, dark malt flavours. Moderate bitter finish. Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Beese	3.3 Tugboat Hop Gold Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 31/08/2009. A quite bitter IPA, but with fruity citrus knocking around. Dry finish. Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Beese	3 Tugboat Red Cloud Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 25/08/2008. Strong hoppy nose, with grassy and piney hints and some tart berries. Quite a bitter flavour. Friday, April 17, 2020
Beese	3.4 Tugboat Quetzalcoatl Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 25/08/2008. A nice, malty amber with some piney and bitter hop notes in the background. Friday, April 17, 2020
Beese	2.5 Tugboat Lighthouse Pale Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 04/08/2008. So-so pale ale. Slight astringent note at the end. Peppery and floral hop nose. Monday, April 6, 2020
Beese	3 Tugboat British Brown Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 04/08/2008. As ‘English’ Brown... which is more accurate. Fairly sweet, as one might expect, although a bit of grassy hop did permeate. Monday, April 6, 2020
Beese	2.6 Tugboat Mark Twain Pale Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 04/08/2008. Fairly crisp beer, not overflowing with flavour. Grassy and light fruity nose. Ok. Monday, April 6, 2020
Beese	3.1 Tugboat Blonde Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 23/07/2008. A quaffable, more gently hopped beer from Tugboat, with less astringency as many of their beers had. Some bready malt and raisin notes. Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Beese	2.1 Tugboat Rusty Rose Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 21/07/2008. This had that astringent, ear waxy bitterness that I sometimes find in Reds, and it was quite amped up. Sunday, March 29, 2020
Beese	2.5 Tugboat I.P.A. Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 21/07/2008. Not a terrible beer, and there were some nice piney notes on the nose. The bitterness was just somewhat imbalanced. Sunday, March 29, 2020
Beese	3.4 Tugboat Coffee Brown Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 21/07/2008. A big wallop of coffee in the aroma of this one. Mixed nicely with chewy grain in the flavour. Not one to drink all night, but a pleasant single pint. Sunday, March 29, 2020
Beese	2.9 Tugboat Copper Keg at Tugboat Brewery, Portland, OR on 21/07/2008. My first Tugboat beer. Ok, the beers weren’t amazing, but I walked in this place on a Monday, and was welcomed so lovingly by the barman and locals that I came back here every single Monday I was in Portland from then on. I haven’t been back for a few years, and if I go again, it’s going to miss a certain something without this place. Anyway, this was an ok beer, with some nice cereal notes, but the hop bitterness was a tad astringent. Sunday, March 29, 2020
BuckeyeBoy	3.2 Tugboat Rye Ale On tap at the brewery pours out a amber color topped with a sand head. Nose is rye malts some citrus fruit notes. Taste is more of the rye malts some grain spice and citrus hops. Saturday, September 23, 2017
BuckeyeBoy	2.8 Tugboat I.P.A. On tap at the brewery pours out a copper color topped with a white head. Nose is not much better than hop gold pine yeast some grain. Taste is more of the funky bitter hops and a grain end. Saturday, September 23, 2017
BuckeyeBoy	2.2 Tugboat Hop Gold On tap at the brewery pours out a golden topped with a white head. Nose is pine solvent cleaner and citrus. Taste is more of the pine solvent with a little bread malt. Pass Saturday, September 23, 2017
BuckeyeBoy	3.1 Tugboat Chernobyl IPA On tap at tugboat Portland. Pours out a hazy gold topped with a small head. Nose is pine citrus hops some cereal malts. Taste is more of the citrus hops a not ve4y well balanced malt bill with a grapefruit pithy bitterness on the end. Friday, July 8, 2016
BuckeyeBoy	2.5 Tugboat Thunderbolt Pale ale On tap at tugboat Portland. Pours out a hazy gold topped with a small head. Nose is earthy hops some floral and a lemon note. Taste is more of the hop hit and a earthy malt note. Thursday, July 7, 2016
BuckeyeBoy	1.9 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout On tap at tugboat Portland. Pours out black topped with a small head. Nose is roast malts some odd chemical notes maybe some sort of nuclear waste. Taste is roast malts chocolate and as bad as the nose. Friday, June 3, 2016
SirLimpsalot	3.3 Tugboat Chernobyl IPA @ Tugboat 16-3-8: stor fruktig doft. Fin och fruktig smak av gräs och humle. Mycket dold alkohol. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
gyllenbock	3.1 Tugboat Chernobyl IPA On tap at Tugboat. A bit hazy golden/orange with a small white head. Hoppy with orange, grapefruit and some light malt. Also notes of soap. The finish was bitter. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
SirLimpsalot	3.3 Tugboat Leeds @ Tugboat 16-3-8: rejält bitter med tydlig humle. God som matöl till de flesta rätter. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
SirLimpsalot	3.5 Tugboat Amber Lamps @ Tugboat 16-3-8: stor och tydlig doft och smak av blodapelsin och Grape. Rejält besk. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
gyllenbock	2.9 Tugboat Ivy Bridge On tap at Tugboat. A bit hazy orange with a white head. Aroma and taste of some hops, yeast and light orange. Fairly light and with a medium bitterness. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
gyllenbock	2.8 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout On tap at Tugboat. Black with a small head. Aroma and taste of licorice, chocolate and some warming alcohol. Drinkable but a bit chemical. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
gyllenbock	3.4 Tugboat Amber Lamps On tap at Tugboat. Light amber with a small white head. A bit on the sweet side with caramel, orange and hops. Also malt and hints of biscuits. A decent one. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
gyllenbock	3 Tugboat Leeds On tap at Tugboat. Golden with a small white head. Aroma and taste of grass, bread and some hops. On the light side with a bitter finish. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
SirLimpsalot	2 Tugboat Ivy Bridge @ Tugboat 16-3-8: En mycket tydlig doft av jäst. Smakar rå humle och känns inte riktig färdig. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
SirLimpsalot	2.5 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout @ Tugboat 16-3-8: en lite klen doft och smak med lite kemiska undertoner. Lite bitter choklad i eftersmaken. Wednesday, March 9, 2016
douglas88	2.7 Tugboat Ivy Bridge The ABV is suspicious, but that’s what they said. Pours a cloudy pale orange color with a small white head. A light citrus bready nose. The flavor is bitter green hops, light dusty malt base. Drinkable. But not good. Saturday, February 20, 2016
airrick2003	3.2 Tugboat Ankeny IPA Appearance: pours with a medium beige head, the beer is a very hazy copper color Aroma: citrus, flowers, Taste: strong bitterness, flowers, very minimal pale malt Palate: bitter aftertaste, average carbonation, light mouthfeel Overall: another very floral bee from Oregon, this one has a strong bitterness as well though, kind of simple flavors but still good flavors ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Saturday, December 12, 2015
BVery	2.6 Tugboat Ankeny IPA Tap at the taproom. Yeah, garlic and onion. WTF. This wasn’t very good at all. Pass. Tuesday, November 10, 2015
gnoff	2.7 Tugboat McEnroe Irish Smoked Half pint on July 1, 2015. At the brewpub in Portland. Hazy golden color, off-white head. Malty, sweet, apple, light smoked, some oxidation taste. Bitter, grainy aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Malty, fruity, light smoked and some oxidation apple character. scent Saturday, July 4, 2015
gnoff	1.5 Tugboat E.S.B. Half pint on July 1, 2015. At the brewpub in Portland. Hazy brown color, tan head. Acidic, malty taste. Acidic, bitter aftertaste. Medium thin mouthfeel, very low bitterness. Acidic, fruity scent. Feels like an infection going on here, or just very bad cleaning of the lines at the bar. All in all not a pleasant beer the way I had it served. Saturday, July 4, 2015
rosenbergh	3.2 Tugboat Monster IPA Draught at the Tugboat Brewing Co, Portland, OR. Hazy amber colour with a tiny white head. Mild sweet hops and sweet maltiness in a weak aroma. Sweet malt, moderate bitterness and dark resiny hops in the flavour. Strong dark hoppy and malty profile. Bitterness stays... and stays. Tuesday, May 5, 2015
rosenbergh	3.3 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout Draught at the Tugboat Brewing Co, Portland, OR. Black colour with a tiny tan head. Marmalade, sweetness, cocoa, chocolate, roasted malt and some hops in the aroma. The flavour is roasted malt, dry ashy notes, dark chocolate, cocoa and some sweetish hoppy notes. Decent one. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone Monday, May 4, 2015
mcberko	0.5 Tugboat Hop Crazy Pale Ale On tap at Tugboat, pours a murky orangey brown with a small white head. Aroma is nasty, with vegetables and feint hops. Flavour is bitter as fuck, with disgusting vegetable notes and feet. This is horrific. Nasty. Saturday, September 20, 2014
mcberko	0.6 Tugboat Sturdy IPA On tap at Tugboat, pours a murky dark orangey brown with a small white head. Nose and flavour is nasty, with boiled vegetables, astringency and feet. This is revolting. What a train wreck. Saturday, September 20, 2014
mcberko	0.7 Tugboat Summer Ale On tap at Tugboat, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma and flavour of feet, vegetables, and some syrupy notes. WTF is wrong here? This is horrific. Saturday, September 20, 2014
kaser	3.6 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout Draft pour at tugboat in Portland. Like gravy. Thick milky cocoa and choclate taste. Monster beer. Good beer to have before going to Mary's next door Thursday, June 19, 2014
jmgreenuk	3.1 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout Bottle at Deans impromptu Monday night tasting. Poured a clear dark brown with a bubbly light tan head. The aroma is light yeast, alcohol. The flavour is medium to strong bitter with a big alcohol liqourice palate. Medium bodied with flat carbonation. Like many high ABV beers the alcohol tends to dominate. Nice but not "that" nice. Monday, March 17, 2014
sic1314	3.1 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout Poured deep dark reddish brown with a small tan ring. Aroma is vinous and slightly malty. Full body, flavour is bitter dark chocolate, bitter raspberries. Monday, March 17, 2014
deanso	3.2 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout 50cl bottle via a trade. (tap pour bottled) No carbonation or head (to be expected). Clear black pour. Nice enough. lots of chocolate. Monday, March 17, 2014
dEnk	2.8 Tugboat Chernobyl Stout Bottle @ tasting. Aroma is nail polish, candy like fruits, artificial something. Flavour is roast, malt, liquorice, molasses, dust, yeast. Meh. Sure this 13%? Monday, March 17, 2014