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A medium-bodied amber ale with a brilliant copper hue. It is brewed using top fermenting ale yeast and a high porportion of imported Munich malt creating a clean and crisp beer with a toasty, fruity backbone.

Our Roasted Red Ale is a deep mahogany-red colored ale. Its flavor leads with a rich caramel maltiness balanced with a bold hop signature, and followed by a delicate cocoa roasted finish. When selecting the hop varieties to complement our flagship Switchback Ale, we discovered the then new variety of hops called Amarillo. Not the right hop for our Ale, we decided to feature it in our next beer. The pungent citrus and flowery aromas of Amarillo demand a big malt character for balance. We use dark caramel malts to provide an intense malt profile, with a touch of roast malt to cleanse the palate of the inherent sweetness of red ales. To create hop complexity, we add a bit of Simcoe hops to the Amarillo for kettle additions and dry-hopping.

Named in honor of our co-founders bike trip through Europe, Fat Tire Amber Ale marks a turning point in the young electrical engineers home brewing. Belgian beers use a far broader palette of ingredients (fruits, spices, esoteric yeast strains) than German or English styles. Together with co-founder Kim Jordan, they traveled around sampling their homebrews to the public. Fat Tire won fans with its sense of balance: toasty, biscuit-like malt flavors coasting in equilibrium with hoppy freshness.

Switchback’s Roasted Red Ale is a deep mahogany red colored ale. Its flavor leads with a rich malty sweetness balanced with a bold hop signature, followed by a delicate chocolate/cocoa roasty finish. The strong malt backbone is derived from a combination of caramel and roasted malts. This is balanced by the bold aroma of an ample blend of Simcoe and Amarillo hops.