Red Wheelbarrow
Maine Beer Company in Freeport, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Rotating|
Score
7.57
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Flavor Profile: Aromas of pine and sweet malt with caramel. Notes of citrus, black currant, cherry, raisin, fig, berries, and underlying burnt toast.
Hops: Amarillo, Falconer’s Flight
Malt: American 2-Row, Munich, Victory, Special-B, Carapils, Caramel 80L, Monastique
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Maverick (5062) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 6 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled of course, red brown pour, lots of off white/beige head. Malts, some hop character and a bit of fruits - sort of the like the Ommegang Fire &Blood red ale that’s out currently.
Quick3Beers (3147) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 3 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours a very nice copper from a bottle, nice foamy head. Nice maltiness, some light pine notes in the nose. Pleasantly bitter on the finish. Pretty good beer.
tfontana (7150) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass from Total Wine & More, Burlington. Appearance is hazy reddish-amber brown with tons of sparkle, 3-finger width foamy beige head with good retention and light soapy lacing. Aroma is cracker/bread and citrusy bitterness. Taste is cracker/bread along with hint of fruit. Mouthfeel is light-to-medium bodied with frothy texture, average-to-lively carbonation and mildly sweet malty finish with lingering dry bitterness. Overall, aroma and flavor are neither terribly strong, nor terribly interesting. Nothing special.
Gripweed57 (8703) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16 ounce bottle. Copper red pour. Large frothy beige head. Rich caramel malt aroma. Flavor upfront is toasted malt, caramel, earthy, spicy hops and light pine. Wonderful balance and flavor. Visually, this brew is perfect. Flavor wise its outstanding. The finish is resiny hops without being to bitter. Amazing.
Viper666-Qc (10200) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dégustée à l'automne 2015 (De mes notes). Merci MAM. .
djd07 (28898) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to Don. Pours a cloudy brown with medium frothy beige head that lasts. The aroma is strong citrus, pine, spruce. Medium mouth, nice bitter hop bite, pine, grapefruit, light caramel in finish, very nice.
VastActiv (16441) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Novare Res Bier Cafe, Portland. Originally rated 20160221. Bottled 020216 so it is super fresh. Colour is deep slightly cloudy reddish copper with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Caramel, fruits, harshness, hops and malts. Very impressive. Definitely best beer of this style. Body is amazing.
Tinus (5080) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear red brown colour, off-white head. Hoppy aroma, pine, fruity hops, toast, bread. Bitter flavour, sweet malts, light red fruits. Bitter finish, bread, caramel.
(from 66cL can @ Milo’s place. Thanks for sharing!)
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at Meadhall, 4/9/15
Clear auburn-magenta colored body looks very appealing, topped by a beige head that is well-retained.
Pine, iced tea, candied oranges, white grapefruit and wintergreen in the nose all speak to the specialty malts (must be crystal...and yes, I see that is the case looking at the commercial description) mixing with the aggressive citrus and pine of the columbus hops. A bit of odd buttercream-like note with warming, which I dont think is diacetyl but rather some odd aromatic from one of the malts. No alcohol in the nose.
Bitter up front; very much so. Resin and dry grapefruit/orange rind immediately assert themselves while the classic this-is-why-you-shouldnt-put-crystal-malts-in-an-India Pale ale effect is immediately felt; that being an iced tea-like flavor with a very hard, (think hard candy texture, like a jolly rancher) texture to the beer and some toasted malt dryness with a complete lack of balancing sweetness. I’ve been pretty outspoken on not putting crystal malts in an ipa and for that matter, may as well leave out most of the other specialty malts too. Throw in a bit of debittered black malt if you want the color and maybe just a touch of special B if you really want your hop-focused beer to have some weird malt notes that don’t work with the hop flavors....Anyways, back to the beer. It’s massively bitter with no balancing malt sweetness or even a soft texture for the hops to sink in to. As is, it just assaults the palate and the acidity builds up on the finish. Furthermore, despite having amarillo in the hop bill, there seems to be only a passing fruitiness from it that is easily outclassed by the bully that is columbus. While falconers flight has a lot of enjoyable hops in it (simcoe and sorachi ace are awesome), it’s still very high in alpha acids and seems to be abused here, leading to more detrimental acidity and unbalance. In summary, I did not like this beer.
solidfunk (21802) reviewed Red Wheelbarrow from Maine Beer Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Nice stuff. Full of flavor, with snappy lemon hops. Pours amber red with good head and lacing. Fits in as the light cousin of all their bigger hoppier beers. Tap at Churchkey.