Homer Red Knot Scottish Ale

Brewed by Homer Brewing Co.
Style: Scottish Ale
Homer, Alaska USA

On tap @ Duggan’s. Cloudy amber with a small head. Almost no aroma. Mostly sweet flavor with some very light sourness from the yeast. Medium to light body, watery thin mouth feel and average carbonation. Somewhat bland to the senses overall.

23-Jan-08 (Draft: Homer Brewing Co. in Homer, AK) Described by the brewer as a "user friendly beer", Red Knot is a very easy drinking beer and their best seller. Malts are dry, toasty and slightly caramely in flavor, and hops are very light and far in the background. Slightly caramely nose with no hops, but a lightly spicy yeast aroma comes out too. On the palate, the beer is medium in body with soft carbonation. Foamy, off-white head rises to a quarter-inch before settling to a filmy and bubbly layer with a small ring. Some patchy lacing. Definitely a beer targeted for the general public, and for that purpose, it’s more than adequate.

The Homer Brewing company is one of my favorite local breweries. Almost every single beer it produces is excellent. I’m usually not a huge fan of red beers, but this is one of my faovites.

had during a trip to alaska. was hoping for more alcohol in this one. some fruit and hops. nice but needs more bite for these cold alaskans!

On tap at the ’06 Great Alaska Beer and Barley Wine Festival. Muddy orange beer with a thin tan head. It has a sweet grain nose with something almost smikey in it. Watery beer with some smoky grains and a faintly lactic acidity to it. It disappears on the palate. It was not a good beer.

Basically, I’d sum the beers of Homer Brewing Co. with: "Boring, but not bad, but always a very nice palate." Or something like that. This was the worst example I had from the brewery. Had almost no aroma and too much bitterness, but it was drinkable so thats good enough for me I guess.

First had one in a brewery-filled Sobe bottle at the Salty Dawg in Homer. It tasted good with a sweet caramel malt base and a tangy palate, but it was flat and came across as an average beer. Later that night I had it on draft at the Land’s End Resort and what a difference ... Opaque red-brown with a thin but creamy head. The draft was chunkier and fuller-bodied, which kept the flavors in better as well. This place needs to NOT do the Sobe bottle thing!

Poured from the tap at the brewery into a take home bottle. Dark orange appearance with a very thick mocha colored head. Sweet, malty aroma with some molasses notes. Flavor has some molasses notes with an underlying fruitiness. Detect a faint trace of chocolate in there as well. Good, solid thick mouthfeel, overall a decent Scottish Ale from a small microbrewery.