Pleasant barley sweetness meshes well with dapper fruity nuances, softly flowing through to mildly bitter butterscotch-etched finish. Well-balanced, medium-bodied, and tingly spice-hopped.
Tag Archives: red ale
ROCKY RIVER COPPERHEAD RED ALE
SMITHWICK’S IRISH ALE
Heavily advertised Guinness-Bass amber ale alternate maintains frisky tan head and burnished copper hue. Chewy whiskey malt souring and wavered cocoa snip placated by toasted barley sweetness. Dry floral hop bitterness affects peated barnyard-hay earthiness and herbal tea hint. But medicinal ethanol surge at mannered caramelized apple finish is debatable.
BLUE & GRAY FRED RED ALE
COTTONWOOD SUMMER MOUNTAIN RED
GOOSE ISLAND KILGUBBIN RED ALE
KATAHDIN RED ALE
MASH HOUSE RAVISHING RED ALE
OMMEGANG ROUGE
RODENBACH ALEXANDER RED ALE
Spectacular slow sipping garnet-hued dessert ale alternates strong green apple waft and dry cherry nose above undeniable eye-squinting citric tartness. Lithe berry tang sweetens prominent vinous vermouth sourness, grape pulp mustiness, mild orange bittering, and rose’ wine illumination as strong soda-fizzed cherry essence receives oaken cask-aged seduction.