Red Velvet
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - White / Blond Rotating|
Score
6.49
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
octal (3685) ticked Red Velvet from Ballast Point Brewing Company 7 years ago
jinroh (4381) reviewed Red Velvet from Ballast Point Brewing Company 7 years ago
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.
Ibrew2or3 (10819) reviewed Red Velvet from Ballast Point Brewing Company 8 years ago
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.
shrubber (15804) reviewed Red Velvet from Ballast Point Brewing Company 8 years ago
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.