Charlton Rouge
Idle Hands Craft Ales in Malden, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
6.94
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours ruby-tinged mahogany into a snifter. Tan head with good retention recedes leaving scant lacing. Pit fruit and funk aromas. Sharp with tart cherry and oak front to back. Lasting pit finish.
jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Charlton Rouge from Idle Hands Craft Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours raspberry white head. Nose and taste of sour raspberry in chocolate, oak, pink lemonade, red wine, light funky oak. Medium body. Soft carbonation. Short finish.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Charlton Rouge from Idle Hands Craft Ales 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Batch 1, April 2013, 750mL bottle drunk 4/6/14
Nicely bright copper-auburn body is topped by a medium amount of tan head that recedes fairly stedily to cover.
Really nice mix of soft acetic and malic acids in the nose, with light prunes, raisins and soft wood tannins taking some of the punch out of the acids. Reserved black cherry flesh-like notes and even just a touch of grape-like fruitiness. Works really well with the moderate acidity, light wood and caramel. Very easygoing. No alcohol noted.
Some light acetic acid in the mouth followed up quickly by light vanilla and caramel sweetness. Lots of wood tannin gives a very chewy texture and carbonation is mostly tight and engaging keeping the mouthfeel mostly light and not allowing too much of the tannin to build up. Very nicely attenuated, though with 9 months in the barrel, you’d expect it to be so. Perhaps just a little too tannic, which dulls the brightness just a bit too much. Some diacetyl is rather apparent, especially as it warms, but it dosent detract too much as it sort of works with the barrel character. Good. Could probably come out of the barrel quite a bit sooner.
Travlr (30173) reviewed Charlton Rouge from Idle Hands Craft Ales 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Night of the Funk 2012. Cloudy maroon color, off white head. Aroma of dark fruit. Taste is sweet and sour summer fruit, vanilla, citrus. Interesting.