Redhook Mud Slinger Spring Ale
Mudslinger is a Nut Brown Ale with a Medium body and a fresh aroma. Its malty flavor is layered with light chocolate, caramel, brown sugar and a hint of vanilla. Six barley malts and two hop varieties result in a surprisingly smooth, well balanced dark beer.
Mudslinger pairs nicely with grilled meats, stews, fowl, and even smoked oysters or salmon.
Available on the West Coast from January through April.
Style: Nut Brown Ale
ABV: 5.8%
Malts: Two row pale, Munich, Caramel, Chocolate, Black, and a touch of Roasted Barley
Hops: Willamette and Northern Brewer
Color SRM: TBD
Bitterness Units: 30 IBU
Original Gravity: TBD
Brewed Since: 2010
Mudslinger pairs nicely with grilled meats, stews, fowl, and even smoked oysters or salmon.
Available on the West Coast from January through April.
Style: Nut Brown Ale
ABV: 5.8%
Malts: Two row pale, Munich, Caramel, Chocolate, Black, and a touch of Roasted Barley
Hops: Willamette and Northern Brewer
Color SRM: TBD
Bitterness Units: 30 IBU
Original Gravity: TBD
Brewed Since: 2010
3.1
186 reviews
Seattle, United States
Community reviews
Sample at Hopfest 2013. Comes reddish brown with a decent tan head. Aroma of malt, caramel, and chocolate. Taste is caramel malt, chocolate, fruit, and a touch of hops. Light and easy to drink.
Bottle. Pours a deep amber color with thin tan head. Nice lacing. Not much aroma. The sweetness from the malt comes through. A touch of nuttiness and then a dry finish with just a hint of hops. There’s not much special about this one and the flavor is a bit muted. Its easy drinking along the lines of Newcastle.
Aroma is caramel malts, toffee and mild nuttiness. The flavor is caramel malts, light toffee, mild nuttiness and a medium sweet finish.
Appearance: clear cola brown, with russet highlights, a quickly fading fizzy light beige head, and minimal lacing. Aroma: lightly toasted malts, caramel, graham cracker, with a hint of leather and wood. Taste: a bit nutty, rather sweet, with surprisingly crisp, almost lagery toast character accentuated by light molasses and cola. Finish: clean, crisp, and slightly sweet, with lingering toast and light nutty character. Notes: There is minimal hop presence to this beer, and it’s very light in body. Nevertheless, the sweet, restrained toasty and nutty malt notes were enjoyable.
Type: 22-oz. bomber
Glass: Karl Strauss pint glass
From: Del Mission Liquor in Hillcrest (San Diego), Calif.
Price: 2-for-$5
Purchased: April 25, 2013
Consumed: April 25, 2013
Misc.: N/A
Poured a mahogany brown color with two fingers of khaki tan head. Decent amount of sporadic and uneven layered lacing on the sides. Good retention all the way down.
Smelled roasted caramel notes first. Also nuts, toast, toffee and faint bitter chocolate notes. Had me wanting to come back for more.
Not as much flavor in the taste like the nose. Roasty caramel, toffee, chocolate milk and nuts with bitterness hanging on the tongue after.
Medium body. Oily-to-creamy texture. Average carbonation. Slightly bitter, but still smooth finish.
This beer had its moments, but it was missing something. A bit more flavor I would have rated it higher than a 3.5 (which may have a bit generous).
Fairly standard brown ale, I think. Good for pairing with the first grill session of the season. Very mild, good malt flavor, good finish. Nothing standout.
Smells like dessert! Caramel, chocolate and coffee. Clear red-brown color, foamy tan head. Taste is smooth and balanced, nice and chocolaty! Medium bodied, goes down slick. Very easy drinking, 8/10
Pours a clear deep amber with a light head, thin streaks of lace. The taste somehow reverses things: somewhat bitter chocolate malt grows through the palate into a warm caramel malt that lingers deep into the finish. Easy to drink.
Clean, slightly malty, definitely smooth with hints of xhocolate and almost a friity tone. Nice aftertaste!
a good brew described well as above the brew is mellow and has quite a bit of vanilla and caramel seems like a creamy cream soda with a bitter finish. finish lingers nicely.
Aroma of coffee and cocoa. Clear reddish brown color. Starchy coffee taste, moderate bittering, not too sweet. A bit more spice and hop profile than your usual brown ale.
Poured from 12 oz. bottle at The Tavern in Potomac, MD.
Clear, mahogany red with khaki head and good lacing.
Aroma of caramel, roasted malt, raisin dark bread and nuts.
Taste of nuts, caramel, toffee and Russian black bread
Medium body and high/medium carbonation.
12oz bottle...brown w/ruby highlights and lt tan half inch head that quickly dissipates to a ring..minimal lacing. Aromas are predominately malt - caramel, brown sugar, roasted...some earthy hops. Medium and smooth body w/ avg carb. Flavors are light milk chocolate and caramel w/ some vanilla. Overall solid and pretty tasty but nothing overly exciting.
Bottle. Reddish-brown and quite active. Caramel is the predominate character. Super, super smooth, velvety even. Easy drinker with no obtuse, sticky sugars that sometimes burden brown ales. Very nice. (#4975, 4/7/2013)
Pours a thin clear brownish toffee color on two with bubbly white head. Aroma is caramel, but brown and light sweet chocolate and toffee. Taste follows, thin and a bit too sweet, but easy to drink. Meh.
Pours a clear brown with white head. Slight caramel aromas, some toasty, bready notes. Toasted nutty flavours, a touch of burnt caramel sweetness. However, this is quite light and watery. Average.
Appearance has a dark copper brown color supporting a thin dissipating head leaving no lace. Smell of the light roasted barley, chocolate and vanilla, but faint. Taste of roated barley and malts mainly rounding out with the hops. Mouthfeel is medium light with good carbonation. Not much into browns anyway, but I’ve had better browns.
Bottle. Dirty brown mid water with almost no head. Some hint of caramel and light yeast. Not a bad beer. Nice change of pace for spring.
Tasted in 2010 (backlog). Amber brown in color with a small off-white head. Aroma is of grain. Taste is of malt and grain.
Minimal head on a medium brown colored body.
The aroma is nice with chocolate, flora notes and nuts.
The taste is sweet overall with roasted and chocolate malt dominating.
The texture is smooth with moderate carbonation.
An enjoyable brown ale.
Draft at Moriartys. Clear copper pour with a tight off-white head. Medium malt flavors. Cola. Tangerine peels. Cinnamon. Not really that complicated. Thankfully not too sweet. Easy drinking but not exceptional.
Serving: 12 oz. bottle from Wegmans Leesburg. A light brown color with a small off white head. The nose has light nut, malt, and a touch of caramel. The flavor follows suit with a light, easy drinking body. Nothing spectacular, but certainly sessionable.
First, it says Brown ale, not spring ale. Was nice and a little nutty like a brown ale should. NIce aftertatse and very hopy.
This was a pretty decent brown ale. The aroma is a bit off to me but the flavor was drinkable. Just okay.
Bottle. Clear light cola pour with a minimal head. Aroma is mild coffee and nutty malts. Palate is pretty thin. Not very good tasting. Meh.
Bottle from NH brewery dated 13 Dec. 2012 (bottled on) served in a snifter. Poured a clear reddish brown with a decent looking but short-lived tan head. Both spicy hops and malt evident in the attractive but weak nose, with a trace of fruitiness and notes of toasted grain, caramel and baked bread.
T - a good amount of toasted malt flavor, with spicy hops in the background that are probably responsible for the sensation of black pepper. Subtle flavors of roasted nuts and smoke. Faint hint of coffee in the semi-dry finish.
Lively feel, suggesting that there’s more carbonation in this than it appears. The body is medium, leaning towards thin.
O - a slightly hoppy and lively brown ale.
Nice light brown appearance with finger-length head that sticks around for a bit and leaves nice thick rings of lacing. Aroma is cereal-y, toasty, and a little nutty with a hint of earth and metal. Taste was a letdown after the nice appearance and pretty good aroma - very little flavor at all. I understand brown ales are one of the more subdued styles, but this is quite weak even for the style. There should be more notes of the nuttiness and toast suggested by the aroma, but there is just some vaguely bready malts on the tongue, and little else. Drinkable enough, but doubt I will get this again with many other tastier browns out there.
Lightly sweet brown with caramel and chocolate, yet still not "dessert-y". Smooth and easy-drinking.
Pleasant, sessionable, smooth and easy-drinking brown ale. Light toast, subtle sweetness (brown sugar, caramel, honey, vanilla), faint spiciness (pepper, possibly a hint of clove) and a little nuttiness. Finishes clean.
2013 Spring Seasonal. New logo on the bottle. Very thick and filling. Great rich taste with only a hint of hops.