King Crimson
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyAmber / Red Ale - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
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Score
6.87
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King Crimson is an Imperial Red Ale that delivers a royal bounty of luscious, fruity American hops on top of a sturdy, deep red malt backbone. This beer is lavishly dry-hopped with Simcoe, adding a citrusy and piney flavor and aroma to the toasty, sweet malt notes. This special treat is a very limited Winter release, so enjoy it while you can!
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Ruby beer with a light tan head. Rich malt and light grapefruit aroma with light summer fruit. Malt and light toffee flavor with grapefruit and pine. Medium bodied. Grapefruit and pine linger with light cocoa and toffee.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jul 2012
at 13:58
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Oak, butter, cherries, and orange peel aroma. Clear ruby, thin yellow head, good lacing. Sweet cherry flavor initially, faint amount of diacetyl. Woody orange peel finish. Alcohol noticeable. Not awful, despite the presence of diacetyl.
Tried
on 29 Apr 2012
at 11:47
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from the Folsom Whole Foods. Pours dark ruddy copper/amber with a creamy beige head. Which did a very slight ring lace eventually. Aromas of mixed citrus/floral/pine hop over a pretty roasted malt backbone. Full bodied. Flavor is a bit indecipherable, it’s almost like chocolate and pine. With some moderately darkish fruits. Somewhat challenging. But it’s hoppy as heck, has lots of structure, and makes my mouth writhe in ecstasy. Sorta kinda. It finishes bitter and arguably dry. Also arguably not dry. This is a beer which has been so gifted with ingredients that it cannot fail to be brilliant.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Apr 2012
at 16:56
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bomber from Beer Run. Pours a clear ruby color with a large frothy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of citrus and piney hops with toffee malts. The taste is toffee malts, earthy notes, caramel, citrus and pine hops. Medium bodied, slight astringent in the finish. Decent
Tried
on 08 Apr 2012
at 12:37
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
The foiled screw top bomber pours deep ruby red to amber with tan head. The aroma is a mix of cherry, pine and thick sweet maltiness along with a bit of sugar and spicy hops around the edge. The taste begins with pine hops and cherry like notes and then moves into increasing levels of pine hop bitterness, some crystal malts and malt sweetness. Yeah, I dig this.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2011
at 18:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft @ RFD, Washington DC. Pours a deep amber color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty caramel aroma with piney hoppy hints. Sweetish malty warming caramel and dark fruit flavor with hoppy hints. Has a sweetish malty dark fruit and caramel finish with hoppy hints in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Aug 2011
at 07:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
LiteWait shared a 22 oz bottle with me. When they say, King Crimson that is what it looks like. Nice amount of carbonation adds a thin consistent small bubbly white head. Aroma is mostly pine. For taste provides a pine resin, no fruit from dry hopping, only pine. Palate is pretty simple. Creamy mouthfeel while a little dry in the finish. No bitterness what so ever and it has an element that makes me want to drink it more. Rather enjoyable, depending on your craving. I would drink this again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2011
at 18:07
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Pours clear deep amber into a Sam glass. Off-white micro head with good retention recedes leaving spider lacing to coat surface. Sour caramel aromas. Thick with sweet toasted caramel and hay upfront turning to a mild resin finish.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2011
at 15:11
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Pours a beautiful deep shade of, well crimson, with a huge fluffy beige head that sticks to everything. Fruity and caramel malts mixed with earthy grassy citrus hops just about sum up the aroma on this one. I got an intense blast of citrus when I popped the cap open but that was short lived. Taste is caramel and dark pitted fruit mixed with an earthy spicy bitterness. Long lingering earthy grapefruit finish. Resinous and creamy mouthfeel, medium body and carbonation level. Wow I’m kind of impressed. Nice balanced red ale at a reasonable price compared to its peers. Great luscious creamy mouthfeel. Too bad its a "limited release" Points off for the screw top cap.
Tried
on 24 Mar 2011
at 17:07
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Sampled on draft at Smokin’ Joe’s in Pittsburgh PA this beer poured a red-amber color with a medium sized head that produced good lacing. The aroma was sour toasted caramel. The flavor was sour toasted caramel, moderately harsh fruity hops and had a odd buttery undertone. The finish was long, rough, hoppy and buttery. Medium body. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jan 2010
at 17:00