The balance seems to improve a bit as I can pick up distinctly on an herbal almost flowery taste with the finish. I give it about a half hour to warm up and I now find the sweetness of the caramel malts have overtaken the spiciness I first encountered.
I decide to let this ale warm up just a bit more before proceeding further. I am picking something up on the back-end but am having just a bit of trouble pinning it down. I take a small sip and find this amber ale matches quite well with my noses expectations, delivering a spicy yet sweet flavor. This amber ale owes its appearance to the caramel malts it was brewed with. My nose finds a hint of alcohol mixed with spice, bread and just a bit of malty sweetness. Little carbonation makes the common two finger head an unlikely outcome and I find by the time I get my camera and glass positioned it has nearly dissipated entirely into a thin collar. Scuttlebutt Amber Ale comes packaged in a shorter and wider brown bottle than the norm and pours a gorgeous, semi-transparent deep bronze.
Since then, Scuttlebutt has grown considerably, brewing 186,000 gallons of beer in the year 2011. A business plan was established in 1995 and we grew our operation from 5 gallon buckets to a 20 barrel system… To maintain our marital bliss we decided to move out of the kitchen and into a larger operation. …she wanted to use the kitchen for preparing meals for the family while I was crowding her out in favor of homemade beer. Scuttlebutt brewing was founded in 1996 in an effort to get the founder out of his wife’s kitchen with all of his homebrews. 26th St.Today I am lucky enough to Beer Profile yet another brewery new to me Scuttlebutt Brewing Company specifically their Amber Ale. LODGE MEETING WITH SCUTTLEBUTT BREWING, 6 p.m., Thursday June 1, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. In addition to sweet giveaways, the June 1 Peaks and Pints Lodge Meeting with Scuttlebutt Brewing will feature the brewery’s KEXP Transistor IPA, Homeport Blonde, Amber Ale and 20th Anniversary Russian Imperial Stout. 9 head brewer Doug Tiede sells the craft. For the last 16 years Matt Stromberg runs the brewing operations. is the brewery’s general manager, and he and his wife, Mindy, designed the taproom the recently opened taproom inside the production brewery in downtown Everett. They decided to name their brewery “Scuttlebutt” after Cynthia’s nickname bestowed upon by her father after her impending birth became the scuttlebutt of Naval Station Norfolk where he worked. Cynthia eventually kicked him out of the kitchen and into a facility at the Port of Everett. The family business, which today employs about 75 people, started with a homebrewing kit Bannan’s wife, Cynthia, bought him on Father’s Day in 1990. and his family founded Scuttlebutt Brewing in 1996. If you’re already 21 you can enjoy Scuttlebutt craft beers a month earlier the June 1 Peaks and Pints Lodge Meeting when Scuttlebutt dons the ceremonial robe and Grand Poobah hat as we pour the brewery’s beers from our Western red cedar tap log.įor those not into math, Phil Bannan Sr.
If you’ve been waiting since the day you were born to drink Scuttlebutt Brewing Company craft beer, this is your year: Everett’s renowned brewery turns 21 in July.