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Erie Brewing Railbender Ale

Erie Brewing Railbender Ale - Scottish Ale

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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 
2612.82/5.02.82/5.06.8%12.6English pint, Thistle
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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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 mwelsh13 (483), Maryland, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/59/20
Dec 6, 2008  
12 oa bottle pours medium brown with caramel highlights. FLuffy white head with a slight caramel aroma. Thin body with a bit of nutty flavor. Reminded me of Yeungling.


 sebletitje (1880), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Nov 30, 2008  
Tap @ OTH. Pours amber with white head. Aroma / taste, light hops with malty caramel / chocolate notes. Drinkable but nothing memorable.


 Wasatch (270), Layton, Utah, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Nov 30, 2008  
Pours a hazy amber color, nice carbonation, nice little fizzy off-white head, not much sticky lacing at all. The nose is malty, with some slight spice, caramel. The taste is slightly sweet, malty, caramel, and some spice thrown in. Medium body. Drinkable, a tasty brew.


 ratman197 (3139), Arvada, Colorado, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Nov 30, 2008  
Bottle poured a clear orange amber with a small lingering amber head. Aromas of carmel, toasted malt and earthiness. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp. Flavors of carmel, toasted malt, earthiness and brown sugar with a crisp lingering bittersweet finish.


 jb (1024), Rochester, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
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 (1076), Pine Barrens, New Jersey, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/512/20
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 (206), Marysville, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/103/516/20
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
5/103/55/103/510/20
Oct 24, 2008  
(Bottle). Caramel aroma. Copper amber body, off-white head. Flavor is mostly toffee sweet, some spiciness. Syrupy.



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