Tongue Buckler
Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.40
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Our Tongue Buckler Imperial Red Ale doesn’t pull any punches. This is a big brew with hops and malt in extreme abundance. The I.B.U.’s (International Bitterness Units) alone test the limits of your palate. Yet while the timid should take warning, Tongue Buckler generously rewards the bold with an exceptional ale experience.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home. Aroma is rich malt, caramel, big resinous hops, lots of pine resin, sweet ripe orange. Flavour is medium sweet and nicely bitter with a long bittersweet finish. Slight booziness. Body is medium to full, nicely rich and thick. A bit expensive but rewarding!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2025
at 15:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught@Craft Beer Helsinki 2019. Deep reddish brown colour with a small off-white foamy head. Aroma is pine, toffee and some slight wooden and mild herbal notes. Flavour is pine, toffee, some tea leafs as well as mild spiciness, alcohol and some wooden tones to it. Alcohol suits in well, and gives a quite warming feel to the beer.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2022
at 21:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft from Hops and Pie 1-8-15
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Nov 2020
at 20:07
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12oz bottle at home. Copper colour, medium tan head, aroma of sweet tobacco, burnt sugar, rye, some orange. Flavour is bitter resin, rye grains, booze, some tobacco notes. Bitter finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2019
at 15:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle, 0.355 l, at Oljenkorsi, 20180716) The beer poured deep copper coloured and clear. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had caramel, grass and pine. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were grass, pine, caramel, toffee, malts and bitterness. Aftertaste had caramel, malts and bitterness. A rather bitter brew but still rather drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2018
at 16:40
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled 355ml (Alko web)
Deep ruby-amber colour, small beige head and some lace. Resiny, bready, hoppy aroma. Medium to full-bodied. Resiny, piney bitter, caramalt, bready maltyness. Sweetish but bitterness cuts most of it. Alcohol shines thru somewhat. Classic example of American Strong Ale. Likeable.
Deep ruby-amber colour, small beige head and some lace. Resiny, bready, hoppy aroma. Medium to full-bodied. Resiny, piney bitter, caramalt, bready maltyness. Sweetish but bitterness cuts most of it. Alcohol shines thru somewhat. Classic example of American Strong Ale. Likeable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2018
at 15:24
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Apr 2018
at 20:46
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Solid red hop monster, a deep, sugary mix of caramel and toffee malts and a vicious amount of piney, resinous IBU vitriol. A bit of a one-trick pony, juxtaposing the gooey sweet center with a bone-dry, endlessly bitter back end without developing much other complexity in the flavors, but both sides are done well, and the creamy, slick texture’s absolutely amazing. (Hard to grasp how a beer this smooth could be 10%.) I do wish the hops brought forth a little more citrus, maybe some dankness to play off the caramel, but damned if this pint isn’t disappearing fast as hell despite my issues. Caramel nose with a touch of booze, and the appearance is gorgeous, a deep red-orange with a neverending beige head and multiple strata of lace. Tasty beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Aug 2017
at 19:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Mellow. Pours a clear amber with a finger of foam that lingers. Very light nose, bit of pine, orange. Smooth and well balanced. More orange popsiclevas it warms. Bitter, piney and nice. Well done. --- Beer merged from original tick of Ballast Point Tongue Buckler Imperial Red Ale on 14 Jun 2017 at 17:12 - Score: 7. Original review text: Very light nose, bit of pine, orange. Smooth and well balanced. More orange popsiclevas it warms. Bitter, piney and nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jun 2017
at 21:09