Scuttlebutt Tell Tale Red

Brewed by Scuttlebutt Brewing Co.
Style: Amber Ale
Everett, Washington USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Bottle from Total Wine, Sacramento. Pours orange copper with a thick beige head and a fruit and toffee aroma. There is a medium-bodied smoked malt flavor with a mildly bitter finish.

Draught at the brewpub, 6-4-7-4-13=34
Hazy amber color with small creamy head. There is an earthy touch both in the aroma and flavor; the flavor is basically caramel, with a good bitterness level and mild hop qualities (some resins). Good.

Nitro at the brewpub, 6-4-7-3-13=33
Hazy amber color with obvious creamy head; it seems darker than the CO2 version. Smoother mouthfeel; the earthy touch is now almost absent, just the good caramel is left; similar to the other version, but some of the pleasant edges of it don’t appear here, especially the final is blander.

Tap. Pours brown with a slight ruby tint and thin, creamy off-white head; short retention and minimal lacing. Aroma is muted with caramel and toasted malts, berries, and light floral hops. Flavor is sweet malt dominate with vinous esters and a touch of hops and nuts; dry finish. Medium body and carbonation.

Purchased from the brewpub in Everett. Pours a dear clear amber color with quick to rise and quick to settle big bubbled off-white head. The nose shows roasted caramel malts and floral, citrus, and grassy hops. Medium in body with a smooth clean mouthfeel. The flavor mirrors the aroma with citrus even more prominent and the finish is dry and bitter. Well balanced and quite good.

Poured from 12 oz bottle. Clear copper brown in colour with very minimal off-white head. Malty aroma with some hops and mild caramel notes. Medium body with predominant hoppy taste. Some metallic feel on the finish.

pours a clear brown with a small light tan head. smell is of brown sugar, malt, and caramel. taste is watery, malt, caramel, and molasses. ends peppery.

12Oz. Pale copper, mild. Soft malty hop. metallic dry bittering hops. Good session ale

Appearance is a reddish amber with a dissipating head leaving nill lace. Smell is soft of the malt and hops. Taste has a softer malt flavor that brings out more of the citrusy hops. Mouthfeel is medium light with good carbonation. A little unbalanced towards the hops leaving the malt more in the background

By the numbers red ale. Not much on the nose. Caramel malts on entry, highly carbonated. Minerally and metallic on the finish. Drinkable, nothing more.

A nice beer. Deep amber, longlasting fairly thin head. Nice mild hops aroma. Mildly bitter with an offsetting sweetness. Very drinkable - kind of a pleasant surprise from a brewer I am not familiar with.