Erie Brewing Railbender Ale

	Percentile
	29
	overall

Brewed by Erie Brewing Company
Style: Scottish Ale
Erie, Pennsylvania USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

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Ratings	Average	Score	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
265	2.82/5.0	2.82/5.0	6.8%	13.4	English pint, Thistle

Commercial Description:
Erie, Pennsylvania was an important railroad hub in the mid–nineteenth century, the city being the site where three sets of track gauges met. Railbender Ale, Erie Brewing Co.’s flagship ale, named after the laborers who laid the railroad tracks is brewed with pride, strength and purity symbolic of Erie’s historic railroad’s and railroad workers. Railbender, a strong Scottish style ale smooth malt flavor and astonishing drinkability will have you “Hopping on the train and riding off the rails.” All Aboard!

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jb (1035), Rochester, New York, USA

3.2	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.2	6/10	3/5	6/10	3/5	14/20

Nov 26, 2008

Dough + caramel and butterscotch in the nose. Very nice looking reddish color. Minimal lacing or retention. Mostly malt in the palate, some toffee, decent body weight to it, with bubbliness and some hops at the end.

pineypower (1090), Pine Barrens, New Jersey, USA

2.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.7	5/10	3/5	5/10	2/5	12/20

Nov 1, 2008

Pours out a mostly clear moderate hue of copper with a small white head. Faint aroma of caramel and some honey. Taste is sweet, caramel, honey and some lingering maltiness overall an interesting brew, but the sweetness was a little too unbalanced.

1010 (207), Marysville, Ohio, USA

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	6/10	2/5	7/10	3/5	16/20

Oct 30, 2008 Updated: Nov 21, 2008

Pours an amber color without much of a head. Taste of caramel and malt. I thought it was a solid old ale. 12 oz. bottle

DrDavid (957), Johnson, Vermont, USA

2.6	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.6	5/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	10/20

Oct 24, 2008

(Bottle). Caramel aroma. Copper amber body, off-white head. Flavor is mostly toffee sweet, some spiciness. Syrupy.

Snoop59 (71), Penn Run, Pennsylvania, USA

2.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.9	4/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	12/20

Oct 19, 2008

12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear medium amber with a thin off-white head that dissipates quickly. Virtually no lacing. Aroma is mild maltiness and caramel. Flavor is initially sweet, some molasses followed by a slightly phenolic and warming finish. Light body, soft carbonation. Actually a decent old ale.

heynik1885 (53), tonawanda, New York, USA

2.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.9	5/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	11/20

Oct 3, 2008

Strong carmel taste, nice amber pour, some head no lacing on glass. cant really taste 6.8% not to bad

oteyj (745), Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA

2.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.5	4/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	10/20

Sep 30, 2008

Pours amber with modest head. Aroma is sweet caramel, and resinous hops. Flavor is much the same- again lots of earthy hops and caramel malt. Slightly astringent in the finish. Palate is medium.

BeerGestapo (738), Windsor, Pennsylvania, USA

2.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.3	4/10	3/5	4/10	3/5	9/20

Sep 28, 2008

Brewed in the USA !! Pours a dark amber color with a dissipating off white head. The aroma is of malts, caramel and biscuits. The taste is kind of the same and the 6.8% might sneak up on you. Not bad !! might try again.

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