Clear pour of medium amber with a substantial white head. Citrus aroma with just a touch of pine and caramel. Bitter start to finish with plenty of malt underneath. Long sappy finish. One of Mendocino’s better ones.

Bottle. Metallic sour malt aroma. Drak copper color with small head. Slightly sweet initially - light berry flavor followed by fairly strong hops and alcohol. Would have liked a stronger flavor but pretty well balanced.

12oz bottle-pours a creamy brown head that laces. Black color. Aroma is malt. Taste is coffee, chocolate malt, chewy. Full body. Not my taste but well done.

Creamy off-white head on a hazy light golden body. Fairly malty aroma. Malty flavor with some hops in the end.

12oz bottle-pours a thin light tan head that reduces quickly. Color is clear gold. Aroma is musty, earthy, malt, hops. Taste is strong grapefruit hops with a bite. Good carbonation, then malt comes through. Unpleasant aftertaste.

12oz bottle-amber color, pours a rich, short light tan head. Aroma is deep malt-caramel. Taste follows with a bit of bite from the secondary hops, very nice, enjoyable. Good carbonation. --- Beer merged from original tick of Red Tail Lager on 09 Mar 2010 at 13:06 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5. Original review text: on tap-pours a white ring for a head and gold color. Aroma is grain, (some corn?). taste is grain (some corn?), hint of hops.

Bottle consumed on 12/30/05. Frothy white head seems well-retained to begin. Strong hop aroma is spicy, fruity and bitter (lots of grapefruit). Light malt is sugary and slightly doughy, but there is no huge yeast stink or any syrupy caramel malt. Clear and fresh are the hops. Body is copper-amber and bottle conditioned. Flavor is citrusy-piney hops, but significantly more flavor than bitterness. Caramel and pale malt sugars in the background provide balance, body. Light biscuity, almost grainy vienna-like malts in there as well. No alcohol apparency. The hops seem fresh enough, but the malt is a little lacking. Just seems sugary and rather dull. But the amarillo fruitiness almost seems to make up for it. Not to mention the very low acidity, which allows the palate some relief. Light notes of orange zest and candied oranges, as the caramel and cascades combine, edging the pininess somewhat. Gets somewhat watery, and probably my biggest complaint, and kind of the crux of what I feel is wrong here, it finishes very quickly. Sure, some hop bitterness lingers on, but it just turns to watery otherwise. Still, you can’t deny it’s well-brewed. No alcohol apparency is pretty impressive, right down to the last mouthfull of (by now) warm liquid. Lightly creamy texture at times, fairly tight carbonation is also quite low. Light lacing left behind.

bottle - Medium, rapidly fading head, the usual hoppy aroma, as others have said it’s a bit subdued for an IPA. Well masked alcohol, hoppy, lingering aftertaste.