On tap at Ambulance, cherry blossom wood-soaked sake yeast gains rice-milked honey mead-like sweetness above tame pilsner malting. Lemon-soured oaken cherry tartness and mild cider pucker pick up salty ginger spritz at the finish.
Tag Archives: red ale
NORTH COUNTRY STATION 33 FIREHOUSE RED
On tap at Bonnie & Clyde Pub, middling Irish Red Ale regales tea-like earthiness, tobacco-roasted peat mossing and slight fungi mustiness with musky apple-pear illusions.
PIPEWORKS BLOOD OF THE UNICORN HOPPY RED ALE
“Aggressively hopped” amber ale proves assertive as 8.5% ABV soaks dry orange, grapefruit and apple fruiting as well as sweet peach, pineapple and mango tang above creamy caramel malts. Resinous piney hop oiling and whiskeyed rye malts provide added depth and dimension for Medieval Times-inspired medium-full body.
COOPER’S CAVE RADEAU RED ALE
Off-tasting sour citric cider coarseness and light white grape vinegaring mismatched with raw-honeyed rye mold and mustily dank soiling, indirectly recalling English-styled mild ale (or ESB). At the midst, leafy-hopped green grape, brown pear, rotted orange, unripe apricot and desiccated fig undertones add to the confusion.
FLYING FISH PESCADO ROJO GRANDE
Thin barrel-aged Redfish Red Ale hybrid (with unassuming 9% ABV) seems awkwardly designed as mild Jose Cuervo tequila adjunct and rummy mojito wisp drop off alongside citric mist to acrid alkaline astringency at barren oaken vanilla finish. Somewhere in the mix, limey agave briskness sweetened only slightly by sugary pecan-almond conflux, ginger-spiced grapefruit-pineapple-orange fruiting and high fructose corn syruping.
PARALLEL 49 GYPSY TEARS RUBY ALE
Murky floral-fruited red ale spicing and honeyed caramel toasting contrast leafy dry-hopped resin of whiskey-nipped moderate-to-medium body. Metallic sheen disrupts India Pale Ale-like grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering and tertiary pineapple, peach and cherry illusions.
RINN DUIN ST. JOHN’S IRISH RED
Tidy caramel-roasted hop spicing picks up mildly smoked chocolate nuttiness and dewy earthen graining over biscuit-y barley malts, leaving wispy red-orange fruiting and toffee-breaded trifle on the back end. Robust flagship beer is brewers’ best seller.
GREAT LAKES RALLY DRUM RED ALE
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, straight-ahead amber-hazed moderation brings lightly creamed caramel toasting and floral hop spicing to sharp red-orange fruiting. Pleasingly sugar-spiced peach, red apple, ruby red grapefruit, clementine and tangerine tang never relents.
BELL’S DEBS RED ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, lightly creamed crystal-sugared caramel malting and spicy yellow-orange-red fruiting contrast grassy-hopped pine ash to stylistic perfection. Lively floral-bound lemon, grapefruit, orange, tangerine, red cherry, peach and mango tang resonates.
ELEVATOR BLEEDING BUCKEYE RED ALE
Uninvolving Extra Special Bitter-derived red ale plies murky orange-grape-cherry tartness to dirty earthen nuttiness, musty wet-grained cardboard staleness and phenol hop astringency. Favorable tobacco-roasted crisping fills the midst but wavered hazelnut sugaring and rye-breaded fennel neutrality need a push.
THOMAS CREEK RIVER FALLS RED ALE
Mediocre moderation lacks true stylish essence and never betters Killian’s Irish Red despite being brewers’ flagship offering. Grain-toasted baked breading, mild caramel nuttiness and grassy hop spicing bring predictable mouthfeel that fails to suffice.
OAKEN BARREL INDIANA AMBER HOOSIER-STYLED RED ALE
Casual amber ale leads with toasted caramel sugaring before tossing earthen peat moss atop faded fruit-spiced nuttiness. Dryer towards the finish, its nutty pecan-hazelnut conflux, blood orange souring and red cherry tartness stay reserved behind the delightful caramel-malted overture.
