Fracas
Black Diamond Brewing Company in Concord, California, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.02
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Our newest offering Fracas Imperial Red is a deep crimson, bordering on brick red. The nose is big grapefruit, with subtle hints of pine, watermelon and honeydew. The hops are just bitter enough to stand up to the sweet malt and caramelized sugar flavor of the malts. The roast barley gives it depth of color without being overly astrigent or burnt/acrid. The hops in the finish are ever present and the flavor mimics the nose of the beer. Fracas has a slighlty chewy mouthfeel and finishes with a nice caramel sweetness yet without flabbiness in the body.
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6/10
Tried
on 28 Jul 2022
at 20:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Vintage bottle bb July 2015. Mahogany color big yellowish beige head, persistent. Aroma is mostly hoppy, burned malts, a bit fruity, woody tones. Taste balanced, intense bitter. A bit dull but maybe because it's old, a good ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2017
at 11:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home. [ As Black Diamond Fracas ].Clear medium to dark red amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, sweet malt, caramel, dried fruit, moderate hoppy, dusty hops, malt sugar - malty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, dried fruit, sweet malt, caramelized malt - fruit, malt, syrup sweet. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20170321] 7-4-7-4-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2017
at 06:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
355ml bottle. Minimally cloudy, faint amber colour with small, frothy, fairly lasting, minimally lacing, off-white head. Citrusy fruity, hoppy aroma, caramel malty background with a touch of toffee, hints of pine. Taste is moderately sweet caramel malty, moderately bitter, citrusy and slightly piney hoppy overtones, almost rye-like malty spiciness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2016
at 15:59
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 fl.oz bottle with 8.0 abv. Pours clear dark amber colour with a huge most good lasting beige head. Aroma of intense bitter hops, spruce, resins, red fruits. Taste of intense bitter hops, red malt, spruce, resins, some wood, strong malty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2016
at 13:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at the Delirium Hoppy Loft, Brussels. Poured a clear medium brown with a thin broken off white head. The flavour is light bitter light sour with a smooth woody resin, light sweet malt palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Dec 2015
at 05:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Delirium Hoppy Loft. Pours clear brown with a ring tan head. Aroma of dark fruits, berries, light weeds, caramel malt and citrus. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2015
at 04:29
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Thx! for sharing. Sampled draft @ Delirium Hoppy Loft. Deep red amber. Nose is weird burned herbs mixed with hops, pine, burned sugar. Taste is herbal burned sugar, sweet malts, herbal, hay, burned malts,… Burned herbal tastes. Largely just sweetish burned herbs. Not really for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Dec 2015
at 02:53
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
0.65 bottle from Pivoteka, Zagreb. Dark copper, clear with small off white head. Dry figs and raisins, some herbal hops. Very fruity character. Hoppy start, but very spicy fruity character develops, sweet cake like finish. Medium body and medium carbonation. A classic example of style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2015
at 16:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 355 ml at O’hara, Zagreb. Shared with JFK10000. Pours amberish brown with off white head. Expected a bit more, caramel, bit sourish and fruity. Dry bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
at
O’Hara Zagreb
on 20 Jun 2015
at 05:58