Big Red I.P.A.
Ram Restaurant and Brewery (Big Horn Brewing Company) in Lakewood, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Red Regular|
Score
6.37
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Brewed as a medium India Pale Ale, this full-flavored moderately hopped beer has the strongest hop character of our ales. Made for hopheads and new beer aficionados. The grist composition is 94% Pale malt, with the remaining grain bill consisting of carastan malts. The finishing Mt. Hood hop addition in the whirlpool gives this beer a good hop character without becoming excessively bitter. The beer is fined instead of filtered so the hop character is not stripped away.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft - pour amber gold white head - nose and taste of grapefruit, caramel malt and citrus - medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Sep 2017
at 18:59
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Poured into a pint glass, the appearance was a soft hazy copper color with a thin off white fizzy to semi-foamy head that dissipated fairly quick. Sly lace.
The aroma had some sweet graininess up front and then floral hops. Toast, biscuits and some toffee maltiness.
The flavor leaned towards the maltiness, somewhat sweet but straining the graininess along with the toast on into the fullness of this beer. Lingering malty aftertaste. Sly toast to floral to citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Low carbonation. ABV felt fine as projected.
Overall, ok AIPA but there’s so many on the market these days and I don’t know if this was supposed to lean to the American or the English side. Sometimes I feel like I’m just supposed to throw up my hands in this day and age.
The aroma had some sweet graininess up front and then floral hops. Toast, biscuits and some toffee maltiness.
The flavor leaned towards the maltiness, somewhat sweet but straining the graininess along with the toast on into the fullness of this beer. Lingering malty aftertaste. Sly toast to floral to citrus finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Low carbonation. ABV felt fine as projected.
Overall, ok AIPA but there’s so many on the market these days and I don’t know if this was supposed to lean to the American or the English side. Sometimes I feel like I’m just supposed to throw up my hands in this day and age.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Mar 2017
at 15:31
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Firkin offering at Alefort. grapefruit added to this, making it much more citrusy. However, I didn’t think the fruit complemented the malt bill, making for a confused palate.
Tried
on 25 Mar 2016
at 23:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Sampled at Ram-Rosemont, 10/26/15. Citrus and a bit of pine. Caramel notes. Rye bread. Medium bodied. Decent feel. Decent overall.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2015
at 20:57
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Big Horn U District, pours a cloudy dirty amber with a small white head. Nose brings out lots of dank resinous hops, some herbal hops, and bready caramel. Flavour is a bit disjointed, with stale bready caramel malt and resinous hops. The balance isn't quite right, as there seem to be some strange flavours in here. Not a big fan, but it's not a disaster.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Sep 2015
at 13:10
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft - Pine and grapefruit. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Tropical fruit and grapefruit with a nice balanced bitterness. Very nice and fruity.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jan 2015
at 15:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sampler at Schaumburg. Far and away the best beer I had at Ram. Big grapefruit rind hop tones. Easy drinking, with a steady classic NW hop bill. Nice to end the otherwise lackluster sampler with. Right on.
Tried
on 13 Apr 2014
at 23:03
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Draft @ Downtown Indy RAM Cloudy, brown/amber with a short, off-white head. Caraamel, pine aroma. Taste is the same....mild malt... Very mild overall, not a standout.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jan 2014
at 16:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Ram, Tacoma. It pours an unclear, dark orange body under some off-white to light beige head leaving curtains. Lots of pine cones in the aroma, not much maltyness kicking in. Fruityness and a touch of peaches too. Full body, pleasant carbonation. Quite dry, with a nice bitterness in the flavor, both initially and in the end. Some maltyness to back it up. Certainly a nice IPA, well worth a second and third glass. 130629
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jun 2013
at 18:10
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Draft at shaumburg. Aroma is mostly hops, grassy and floral. Taste is light nitter. Meh, nothing super special here. Drinkable but boring
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Jun 2013
at 14:58