The Cardinal
Mraz Brewing Company in El Dorado Hills, California, United States 🇺🇸
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
6.98
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bb (18428) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Draft. Batch 3. Bronze beer with a dark cream head. Sour and light acetic aroma with cherry. Cherry and light sour flavor with light acetic notes. Medium bodied. Cherry and light earth lingers with sourness and light acetic notes,
GenDV138 (9249) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft sampled from a pint at Mraz Brewing, thanks Mike! Clear amber with beige head. Aromas of caramel, malt, cherries. Tastes of cherries, light tart notes, berries. Medium body with a dry finish.
Fergus (31329) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at a level 42 tasting Canary wharf 5/5/2016. Many thanks to Colin for this one. Hazed dark orange amber coloured pour with a lasting frothy beige. Many thanks to Colin for this one. Aroma is slightly chlorine, salty, green apple, wheat. Flavour is composed of tangy sour, slightly wheat stale. Palate is semi sweet, moderate carbonation, xolid.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
5th May 2016
T42 Bottleshare. Thanks to Colin. Hazy deep amber beer, tidy cream colour head. Palate is light, very dry and has decent fine carbonation. Dry malts. Dry tea bags!! Mild sourness. Little Flemish Red fruity tang. Dry finish. Modest bitter linger. Clunk!
Leighton (34941) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared in London - many thanks to colin. Pours hazy golden brown with a frothy, off-white head. Acetic berries in the nose, some leather, lemon peel. Light sweet flavor with strong acetic bite, drying leather, earth, berries. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Quenching finish with more leathery berries, earth, old citrus peel. Not bad.
Scopey (25115) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to Cloin. It pours hazy brown with a medium yellow beige head. The aroma is earthy, woody, funky, musty, dried fruits, damp leaves and fruit cake. The taste is crisp, tart, lemon sherbet, sour apricot, peachy, decent acidity, tea bag, wood and damp earth with a dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. Aroma is mellow, but taste is decent.
bhensonb (22605) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Waxed bottle from Corti Bros. Pours a overly ripe peach brown with a slight beige head. Aroma has that tart fruity, woody, aroma, fitting a sour red. Med body or nearly. It is tart,sour with some definite stone fruit which might be cherry. Probably is. Finishes woody/sour/cherry - but the cherry is pretty much low in the flavor profile. Pleasant drink.
ineedbeer (4099) reviewed The Cardinal from Mraz Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From Notes: On tap at Trappist’s Sour & Bitter Festival. Aroma is full of fairly sweet cherry notes with some light berry and faint oak character. Moderate acidity and a light malt character of caramel and toasted bread. Pours a slightly cloudy reddish orange with some brown hues. Faint head and lacing. Flavor has a light sweetness with moderate acidity. Moderate cherry notes, both sweet and tart, with some berry character. Acidity adds a hint of citrus, not acetic at all. Faint caramel and toasted bread notes with low oak character and low bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a nice sour beer with a lot of cherry character, maybe a bit too much. The fruit notes seemed to overwhelm a lot of the other character, in particular the yeast.Could perhaps use a bit more malt and oak notes to balance out the fruit.