Big Red Machine Fall Classic
Baird Brewing Co. in Izu, Shizuoka, Japan 🇯🇵
Lager - Märzen / Festbier Regular|
Score
7.03
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Keg at Harajuku taproom. Orange colored with frothy white head with small bubbles. Aroma is plenty of malt, bit bready, bit roasted and bit caramel. Taste gives plenty of the caramel in the smell, ultra malty. Bit spiky in the mouth. Nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap in 2014 at NakaMeguro Taproom. Cloudy amber color with an off-white head. Caramel, peach, fig, and malt aromas present. Taste is sweet and bitter. Well-balanced. Slightly bitter finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Big Red Machine Fall Classic Ale on 10 Feb 2016 at 09:38
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Had this a few months ago. Pours red copper with a white head that reduces fast into a thin layer, leaving some lasting lacing on the way, looing like a knittingwork. Aroma has some fall fruits, rowan, cranberries. Sweet and some bitterness lurking underneath. Taste reveals abundant hopping, there is not only aroma but you can feel the fragrant bite of whole hops. Fruits are also there but they are bitter - rowan but not as mushy as rowans sometimes are. Aftertaste is clean, bitter. Beer is quite nicely balanced while maintaining complexity and multiple.layers. Long bitterness lingers in your mouth longer, just as if I had a handful of rowans straight from the tree. Autumn this is.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
On tap @ The Hangover, Nakano, Tokyo. Hazy, orange to red colored. Off white head. Aroma’s: caramel, sweet malts, fruity, piney. Additionally some herbal hoppiness retronasal. Flavor is moderate bitter and moderate sweet. Medium bodied. Finishes rather dry and with a herbal hopbitterness. Usually not a fan of red ales, this was pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
A cloudy muddy orange pour on tap at Tadg’s. The aroma is a nice balance between hops & Malta. The taste is full bodied with a touch of chocolate/caramel malts but perfectly balanced with hops. Really easy drinking stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Faint, but very hoppy nose, with medium amber malt, grass, plums, earthy caramel. Deep amber color with a huge off-white head. Fruity, somewhat earthy flavor with medium hopping and caramel. Citrus hops. Finish is long-lasting bitter hops, with a touch of earthy malts and fruit lingering. Nice, though not as malty as I had hoped. Hops took over.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
One of the many reasons I love Baird are the refrences to Cincinnati, Ohio. Amber/copper with a thick, full, tan head. Sweet malts, dough, fruits. A little bit thin, nice carbonation. Flavor is hoppier than expecting. Citrus and fruity hops. Biscuit malts, and a touch of sweetness. Finishes with a nice hoppy bite. I really enjoyed this brew, but I don’t believe this is an Oktoberfest. It’s just way too hoppy and not nearly enough malt. Still, i’d drink it again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Deep fall color with a surprisingly hoppy nose of apples, but a hint of bready maltiness is there. Thick malty start, but then transends into a bit of a hop bomb and a has a bitter finish. Not bad, but not what I was hoping for the style.