Tugboat Amber Ale

Brewed by Tugboat Brewing Co.
Style: Amber Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

A medicinal smell carries a warning. Appears as a reddish hue of brown with a fading taupe head. Hazy. Biscuity/toastiness jump out in a pleasant way on the flavor. A fairly heavy beer for the style. Tastes as though the hops were a bit off or beer lines were dirty. Not far from a good beer, but not quite there.

Draught @ the brewpub. Pours a hazy dark amber color with a small off-white head.Sligtly roasted malty caramel aroma. Sweetish malty caramel flavor with some weak hints of hops. Has a slightly roasted malty caramel finish.

On tap at Tugboat. Poured a murky to light amber with no body. Caramel malt notes, thin and watery. Slightly acidic and dull as sin.

Not a bad amber. Smells of a balanced amount of the tugboats hops and caramel malts. Tastes equally of the two and goes down smooth. Doesn’t have too yeasty a flavor as some ambers do. Not bad.

[Tap – Brew Pub] A amber colored brew that was just there nothing special about this brew. The beer was light in flavor and seemed to be missing a few key ingredients. Wish I had a better beer to finish the night.

This was definitely infected, along wih everything else that I tried from this place. Strong sour musty aromas and flavors. You can tell this has some great potential though. Pours a nice amber color with a tan head that is nice a frothy, but everything else just went sour after that.

Nice ruddy amber beer. Tart fruity aroma, a bit of cherry and strawberry. Light horseblankety aroma (uh oh). I don’t think it’s supposed to be sour, but its definitely infected. I wouldn’t say the infection kills it though. Sort of ends up being a bit tart and fruity. Quite refreshing actually. Thin body.

Beautiful amber color with a good head and a very clean look. This was hoppier then you would expect from an amber ale, but still a nice beer to sit and read one of their books.