Red Rocket Ale®
Bear Republic Brewing Company in Cloverdale, California, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - American Regular|
Score
7.31
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Red Rocket Ale is a bastardized Scottish style red ale that traces it’s origins to our homebrew roots. This full bodied and hoppy brew finishes on the palate with sweet, caramel malt flavors.
2009 California State Fair - SILVER
1999 Great American Beer Festival® Other Strong Ales or Lagers - SILVER
1998 Great American Beer Festival® Other Strong Ales - SILVER
2009 California State Fair - SILVER
1999 Great American Beer Festival® Other Strong Ales or Lagers - SILVER
1998 Great American Beer Festival® Other Strong Ales - SILVER
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours a dark amber color with a medium lasting off-white head that eventually goes to an outer ring. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel and hops. Medium body with flavors of roasted malt, resiny hops and citrus. A little darker fruit too. The finish is grassy hops with a lingering fruity aftertaste. Good all around.
Tried
on 07 Jul 2011
at 20:23
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12 oz bottle into snifter. Pours a hazy ruby red hue with a medium beige head that falls in a couple of minutes, leaving a ring and some lace. Aroma is grapefruit rind, alcohol, grain. Taste is bittersweet and sour. Has a bready, smoky character. Carbonation is medium, body is full. Not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2011
at 23:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
bottle from kihoskh clear dark brown, large smooth light brown head. Nice flowery hoppy aroma, malty base. Flavor is dry, malty, slightly bitter caramelly, flowery hoppy, bitter hoppy, Good american agressive hoppy beer, a little on the bittersweet side. Also notes of berries. pretty complex flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2011
at 08:22
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home on the terrace.Clear dark amber colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus, warm citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, warm citrus. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110507]
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 May 2011
at 13:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bottle from SuperMarket liquors in Fort Collins
Appearance: Dark amber with a nice sized off-white head and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, caramel and dark fruits
Taste: Toasted malts, fruity, caramel with a bitter finish
A nice easy drinking beer. Plenty of caramel but not cloying.
Appearance: Dark amber with a nice sized off-white head and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, caramel and dark fruits
Taste: Toasted malts, fruity, caramel with a bitter finish
A nice easy drinking beer. Plenty of caramel but not cloying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2011
at 19:47
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This brew is one killer red. It wants with all its heart to be Scottish, to be malty and toffee-centered and kilt-clad, but the hops smash these aspirations all to pieces. In a good way. Red Rocket balances a rich, sweet caramel malt front with a prolonged, Cascadian finish, bitter and piney and vital to keeping this brew from devolving into a syrupy mess. Perfect for a hop fix without any IBU brutality.
Tried
on 17 Apr 2011
at 16:12
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at a tasting. Thanks David Cohen. Dark hazy red with a beige head. Aroma of somewhat stale hops with piney notes, some malt, caramel, a bit of fruits, and oxidized notes. Flavor starts sweetish with caramelly malt and light toastiness, continues bitter with quite a bit of slightly piney bitterness. Medium-bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2011
at 12:47
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
At a tasting, thanks David, smallish head, very deep and quite clear red colour, aroma jam, nuts and oxidised notes, flavour of tea, barnyard and dried fruits, strong empathic but quite mellow hoppy bitterness, long bitter aftertaste. Probably a bit past its prime but still quite good.
Tried
on 02 Feb 2011
at 06:37