Double Red IPA / Yulesmith Holiday Ale
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Imperial Winter|
Score
7.73
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Alesmith's Finite Red IPA, previously known as Winter Yulesmith, offers up an intense hop aroma combined with a well-balanced, full bodied, caramel-malt sweetness.
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In celebration of our 30th Anniversary, we’re excited to bring back YuleSmith! This Double Red IPA balances caramel and toasted malts with big citrus and pine hop notes. A winter warmer that’s perfect for the season.
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In celebration of our 30th Anniversary, we’re excited to bring back YuleSmith! This Double Red IPA balances caramel and toasted malts with big citrus and pine hop notes. A winter warmer that’s perfect for the season.
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8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Brewdog Glasgow takeover. Strawberry jam, sticky resin hops, sweet but nice, bit of skunky bitterness. Good stuff. Caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:02
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Reddish brown color, frothy head. Oily hops, grapefruit and red berries in the aroma. Hoppy oily earthy flavor with red berries and grapefruit. Raisin, some warming alcohol. Long oily peppery hopbitter aftertaste. Big in flavor, satisfyingly well balanced.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at the hanging bat. Pours deep reddish, nose is malty, pine, crystal malt, toffee, cereal, taste is similar, quite bitter, creamy.
Tried
on 20 Jun 2019
at 10:02
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tight rocky off white head stayed on a hazy autumnal coloured still body. Spices zro a with pine, resin, sugar & berry. Medium bodied, sharp to the fore with a soft creamy back. Sweet tastes of syrup, pine, resin, grapefruit, citrus & spices with a long tangy finish.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2019
at 19:55
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
0.355l bottle. Dark orange body with a lasting pearl head. Classic west coast IPA aroma with huge caramel, pine and resin notes and some toast and tangerine. Taste is what you'd expect from the aroma. Lots of pine and caramel with some tangerine, toast and a bit of roasted malts. Despite the high ABV it's very smooth. Great beer. Wish it was available for me from fall through the winter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2019
at 21:31
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2019
at 00:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle share @ Hansen's, thank you Charmaine! Pours nice clear red-ish amber with some beige foam there. Nice crisp hoppy nose, some malts underneath but still good. Tastes well hopped, fresh and malty base. Finish has nice hoppy bitterness lingering longer. Pretty good overall.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2018
at 12:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 22 May 2018
at 13:59
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Misry copper to bronze colour. Decent off-white head. Nose: solid melon malts, tropical fruit, restrained grassiness and spiciness. Full body. Taste: clean powerful malty start. Fruity enough. Convincing hoppy finish. Grapefruit. Medium plus bitterness. Old school. Good as it is.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2018
at 20:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.355 l bottle from 'Rudat', bottled in September 2017. Clear, deep red with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, off-white head. Sweetish, intensely fruity-resiny and slightly grassy aroma of pine, red fruits, grapefruit and a touch of tobacco. Moderately sweet, slightly bitter, fruity-resiny and slightly grassy taste of massive pine, red fruits, tobacco, grapefruit and some herbal notes, followed by a medium long, rather dry-bitter, fairly resiny, slightly grassy finish. Medium to full body, slightly creamy and moderately effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Extremely intense, very hoppy-resiny, great classic west coast stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2018
at 21:14