Red Velvet
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - White / Blond Rotating|
Score
6.49
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Impossibly reddish in color (due to the beets) with nitro cascade fading into a pink cap of stable foam, great clarity. Seeing the beer in the glass shows the obvious resemblance to a slice of red velvet cake (red cake on the bottom topped with a layer of creamy white frosting). But the similarities don’t end there. The aroma is dominated by chocolate with earthy notes of beets and subtle wafts of roast coco. The flavor is similar to the aroma but with faint roast and hop bitterness coming in at the end balance it out, not cloying or overly sweet. The mouthfeel is medium and the finish is luxuriously smooth. It’s dessert served in a pint glass!
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Poured a weird pink red from bottle. Malty, chocolate, u guess berries, I don’t know. Kind of reminded me of a beer form of strawberry kwik. I enjoyed though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Love nitro beers. This one tasted much better before the creamy foam went away but it was good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 05:12
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours up a huge nitro head that forced me to pour it in stages. It has that overcarbonated smell, still not sure exactly how to describe that, and tastes that way too. The mouthfeel isn't as creamy as I'd expect for a nitro brew either. Odd. Still, there's sweet caramel malt, chocolate, and mild hops. It's not bad but I'm underwhelmed.
Tried
on 21 Aug 2019
at 15:43
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle purchased as a single at Tipsy’s Wine and Spirits in Mission, Kansas. Pkg 03 Jan 18 on the label. The pour is initially hazed then settles to mostly clear pinkish red gold along with a nitro foam 1/2 inch off white head. The aroma is sweet chocolate, touch of milk, a bit of earth vegetable and caramel malt. The taste is silky caramel malt followed quickly by sweet chocolate and finishing with bright beet flavor, which also has its own natural sweetness. The palate is medium bodied with soft to low carbonation and a smooth silky oat and nitro finish. Weird and interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2018
at 18:47
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Reddish amber with a large pinkish head that settles to an inch. Aroma of sugary toast, beetroot, fake vanilla, some chocolate. Not as sweet as suspected but a strange jumble of unconvincing ersatz-ery. It's like someone made borscht and then decided to add marshmallows and cocoa powder. Some bitter herbs at the end. Probably good for what it is, but didn't like this at all.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2018
at 14:43
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Low and slow. Pours clear red with a nice head. Sweet taste of white chocolate, smooth mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2018
at 19:57
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2018
at 21:25
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours red, quite clear and with some relatively long-lasting foamy head. Leaves some lacings on the glass. Nose is chocolaty, some stale coffee, reminds these golden stouts I have tried - but this one is just coloured red. Taste has lots of vanilla, more of that coffee bean stale bitterness,light sweetness there as well Mouthfeel is creamy, nitro coming through. Overall, interesting beer, gimmicky for sure, not really into pastry category but leaning to that direction with not too much success. OK. Plus points to the looks, flavours totally don't match them.
Tried
on 14 Apr 2018
at 09:40
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
12oz bottle pours with a clear rosy red amber colored body that supports a nice tan head of foam. The aroma offers up chocolate, white chocolate, a thin earthy dirty beet note and sweet maltiness. The taste delivers smooth malt sweetened and slickened chocolate leading into a modest yet growing fruity berry sensation that's faintly tart. Behind those notes is a thin earthy beet note. Fun beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2018
at 13:28
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle. Vanilla sugar, caramel malt, and straw aroma. Reddish amber with small but long lasting head. Moderately sweet vanilla chocolate caramel malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor.. Okay body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2017
at 22:49