Uinta Cutthroat Pale Ale
The Cutthroat Trout is the state fish of Utah and believed to be named after Cutthroat Pale Ale, Utah’s most popular craft brewed beer. (Ok, it is the other way around.) Uinta’s flagship beer, Cutthroat Pale Ale is a traditional Northwest American Style Pale Ale.
The Cutthroat trout is a species of freshwater fish native to western North America, and more specifically to the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions. The Bonneville Cutthroat trout is a subspecies, native to Utah and named after Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric pluvial lake that covered much of present day Utah. The Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake are two remnants of Lake Bonneville.
Today, Cutthroat trout is the game fish of the west and Cutthroat Pale Ale the catch of the day!
The Cutthroat trout is a species of freshwater fish native to western North America, and more specifically to the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain regions. The Bonneville Cutthroat trout is a subspecies, native to Utah and named after Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric pluvial lake that covered much of present day Utah. The Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake are two remnants of Lake Bonneville.
Today, Cutthroat trout is the game fish of the west and Cutthroat Pale Ale the catch of the day!
3.2
193 reviews
Salt Lake City, United States
Community reviews
I did not like this and I am a big fan of anything Uinta. Not hoppy enough, off flavors, almost like a pilsner, but not even a good one of those. I do not recommend this.
Bottle at Shnoodlepip after GBBF 2016, Tuesday. Clear copper/amber beer with a small head. Hoppy citrus aroma, grapes, hay, floral notes. Hoppy fruity aroma, citrus, herbal notes. Ok.
BB date of 11/05/16.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was an attractive glossy amber color with a nice transparency about it. A moderately thin white foamy head quickly dissipates to a cap just over the top of the beer. Thin ring of lacing clings to the sides decently.
The aroma takes on the malts first, some caramel and toffee and seems to rub against a light tobacco edge. Grassy hops with a light touch of pine try to play but really stay in the background.
The flavor brings the malt sweetness to the foreground and allows the hops to once again try and play in a bitter fashion, but really doesn’t. Malty to tobacco aftertaste with a quick crisp finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a nice sessionability about it. Carbonation rides low enough to allow gentle stickiness.
Overall, as a pale ale, well, it’s almost an English styled one due to how the aroma, flavor and feel plays out. Maybe again, nice to try, if anything.
Sampled from bottle @ ChrisO’s after GBBF Day 1. Clear orange color, small to average sized white to off-white head. Aroma is malts, slightly old hops. Taste malts, lightly hops, moderately bitter. Average body, average carbonation. Meh.
Pours a thin head on a clear dark straw body.
Aroma is nice caramel and grain.
Taste caramel sweet with lots of lemon bitterness.
Texture is thicker.
Draught at Ray’s Tavern. Pours clear amber with a medium, frothy off-white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is moderate fruity, floral and pine hops with toast malt and pear esters. Flavor is moderate fruity, floral and pine hops and bitterness, cracker malt and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation.
Not bad, actually, I guess. Perhaps more a bit’o hops than less than malt? Long distance aftertastes though are memorable, so savor a few swallows and go fish.
Draft at the brewery. Pours clear Ber with a thick, creamy beige head. Tastes like bitter grassy hops, musky straw, some corn, and some citrus. Light body and low/medium carbonation. Smells like grassy hops, straw, some citrus, corn, and bread.
Cutthroat? Really? When you want to read about a truly rebellious cutthroat of EPIC proportions, read the tale of Val Blatz.....that continental brewer that really believed in cutting throats (read between the lines on how he married his dead bosses’ widow...and you will understand....or not). While this beer purports to be cuttthroat, bone up on your American brewing history and prepare to have your throat cut by that Bavarian Slasher of great renown: VAL "Fucking" Blatz. That’s how I roll.....or not.
Aroma is mild/medium pine and citrus/fruit. The flavor is similar to the aroma along with malts and a mildly bitter/floral hoppy finish.
Sample at Waldo Hopfest 2016. Comes a clear golden orange with a decent white head. Aroma of malt and citrus. Taste is malt, citrus, caramel, grain, and a bit of grass. Decent.
Bottle - Uinta Pale - pours yellow gold white head - nose/taste of old hops, malt, citrus peel - medium body.
Bottle. Golden pour with white head. Herbal, grassy hop aromas. Flavors are bare, malty, herbal and grassy tones.
From the tap the pour is clear with a slight red hue, the head is thin white but it lingures, the aroma is initially yeast followed by hops, the taste is malts a little sweetness finished with crisp hops. Solid pale
Bottle. Amber pour, with an off white head. Malty, light, caramel, light citrus hops, bread, and watery. Decent for a 4% made for Utah beer.
This just isn’t anything special, Uinta has far, far better beer than this. This pale ale pours clear amber in color, the head fades quickly. The aroma is slight, but there is some cereal malt quality and a little yeast. The flavor is thin, dull, and watery. Beers like this make me appreciate what a friend we have in Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.
Bottle. Toffee malt and woody orange peel aroma. Amber with moderate head. Lightly sweet toffee malt and mildly bitter hay/orange peel flavor. Medium body. Okay but kind of weak.
This pours a medium amber color with a frothy beige head. The aroma is weak with some malts and touch of hops. The taste is a lot more bitter than I imagined. Decent depth to the taste but there are without a doubt much better pale ales on the market than this one. Finishes with a sweet yet bitter after taste.
12 oz single can as Uinta Pale Ale, purchased at Wilbur’s Total Beverage. Clear amber appearance with a frothy off-white head that eventually diminishes to a thin veil with light lacing. Aroma of toasted grain, earthy hops and a hint of resin. Similar flavor, grainy malts with mild hop bitterness. Light body with a crisp feel and ample carbonation. Pretty easy to drink but kind of boring overall. (Best before 05/13/16)
12 ounce bottle. Big dark orange. Malt with hop aroma. Some floral notes. Decent overall.
As "Uinta Pale Ale" with a drink by date of 5/7/16; from Liquor Barn (Jefferson Commons). Aroma: Caramel and lightly toasted malts balanced by a fruity/berry like hop character. Appearance: Pours a solid copper with soft carbonation holding up a sticky skin of bone coloured head. Flavor: Toasty malt undercurrent throughout with dry floral hopping initially; the hops take on a berry tea component more towards the fruity finish. Palate: Light body, sticky texture, soft carbonation, lingering finish. Overall: Obviously a recipe that’s been around for quite awhile, and while I’m all for appreciating the quality beers of the past, there are some beers best left there. This pale ale may be one of them.
What can I say, I love draft beer. On a short layover in Salt Lake City I ordered a Cutthroat. Keep in mind that Utah has session laws that prohibit tap beer from being over 4% alcohol. In the Pacific Northwest, or anywhere else for that matter, this would possibly be considered a light, watery beer. That being considered, I was pleasantly impressed with the overall fullness of this beer. It had the maltiness and mouthfeel of a solid micro beer. I ended up tasting a few other beers made in Utah and was impressed by how balanced most of them were considering the lower alcohol. Anyone could craft a decent 6-7% beer. Making a decent one under 4% is impressive.
On draft at Spacebar. Pours a clear copper with an off white head. Bready aroma. Flavors of toast. Crisp finish.
Tea and boiled carrots nose. Clear copper, thin yellow head, good lacing. Tea with marigold accents, somewhat metallic. Medium body, easy carbonation. Old school, floral.
4 oz pour on draft at Spacebar. Clear golden orange with off-white head. Aromas of floral, citrus, soap. Tastes of citrus, toast, biscuit, lots of soapy notes. Medium body with a dry finish.
Bottle:
Clear, dark amber with a foamy beige head.
Light caramel, bread-heel scent.
Taste is a bit watery, caramel malt, bready ......
Very light......just ok, not memorable.
No discernible trout flavor or aroma.......sorry, just had to.
355ml can. This is now just called pale ale i believe, feel free to move the rating. It is diacetyl-ridden. Comes off way more as a toffee like bitter or somethign like that than a pale.
Pour is a dark brown with a large white head. Aroma is a mild sweet malt with almost no hop presence. Flavor is pretty much all malt with again no hops showing up at all. This was way too light all around.
The beer pours reddish bronze with a beige head. The aroma has earthy hops, toasted malt, pine and a bit of berries. It has a fairly light crisp body with mild semi sharp carbonation. The taste starts with dry woodiness, pine, crackers and mild fruit. The finish is quite dry and has lots of dried grass. Good.
Klare kräftig goldene Farbe, geringe weiße Schaumkrone. Geruch mild hopfig, getreidig. Geschmack mild hopfig, getreidig, kaum bitter, uninteressant.