Sciaenhops Imperial Red Ale
Swamp Head Brewery in Gainesville, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.89
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Sciaenops ocellatus, better known around Florida as the "Redfish," is an extremely popular game-fish which gains more and more notoriety each year. From early fall through the spring, Redfish can be found in the bays and inland waters of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida.
Florida enforces a slot size restriction on Redfish - anglers can only keep fish that measure 18 to 27 inches in length, with a bag limit
of one or two per day, depending on the management region.
Not too little; not too big; a "keeper" Redfish provides a strong challenge on light tackle, and a feast on the half-shell - a filet grilled with skin and scales intact. Much the same can be said about Scieanhops, a holiday celebration Ale, created by our brewers to meet craft beer angler’s thirst for a hearty red ale with a feast of hop flavor and aroma.
This Imperial Red Ale was brewed the day after Christmas, using eleven malts and twelve hop additions; it weighs in at a healthy 8.3% ABV. We expect it to become a Swamp Head holiday tradition...
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CLW (16859) reviewed Sciaenhops Imperial Red Ale from Swamp Head Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz. can shared by Chalumeaux, much thanks. Dirty red brown color, lasting bubbles of head. Aroma is light grassy, citrus, caramel. Flavor has a caramel base, with the same grass, citrus, and maybe pine. The alcohol content is hidden pretty well. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured from can thanks Dchmela hazy copper red with a nice tan head. Aromas of caramel malt grapefruit and pine hops. Taste is slightly sweet caramel citrus pith bread and nice pine finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Sciaenhops on 04 Feb 2017 at 19:19 - Score: 7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle: Poured a murky amber color ale with a large foamy head. Aroma of resinous and earthy hops is balanced against some sweet malt notes. Taste is a mix of light grapefruit notes with some earthy and resinous hops and huge sweet malt backbone. Body is full with good carbonation. Can’t say I really enjoy the hops varietal used in here and malt backbone was too sweet for the style.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A reddish copper ale with a thick frothy lacing mocha head. In aroma, nice caramel malt with loads of dank musty resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice caramel malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, treacle, light butterscotch, alcohol warmth and smooth. Bottle at Matt’s.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Tap @OIB, Vero Beach, FL
Nut brown color, good beige head, lace. Nutty, caramel, resin and pine in the nose. Medium-bodied. Also flavor has resin, pine and caramalt. Robust and good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle in the hotel lobby, RBWG ’15, night 2 - 20/02/15 thanks to whomever shared this number. Reddish amber with a moderate beige covering. Nose is red berry, pine needle, citric pith, candied fruit peel. Taste comprises caramel malt, grapefruit, pine, sweet licks, candy bar. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Ok offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle during the hotel lobby share after the RBWG 2015 bus tour. Clear golden brown/orange with off-white head. Aromas of floral, pine. Tastes of citrus, floral, pine. Medium body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle during the RBWG lobby share. Pours a clear copper with small white head. The aroma is pine, dank, floral. Medium mouth with citrus, pepper and resin hop finish, very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Hotel beer, RBWG 2014 Tampa. Clear amber color. Nicely hopped. Taste is bright bitter caramel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared late night during RBWG 2015. Pours Clear Amber with a creamy off-white head. The aroma has lightly toasted malts, piney and leafy hops. Medium sweet flavor with notes of rindy orange, grainy malts, earth, leaves. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly resinous on the finish, some leafy hops, rindy citrus. OK.