Rare Bird Craft Beer Red Ale

Red Ale

 

Rare Bird Craft Beer in Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Amber / Red Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
5.96
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 25 Ticks: 5
Rare Bird Red Ale is an approachable ale, brewed for people who enjoy a well-balanced craft beer. Made with Authentic Seacoast Company’s Glanbùrn artesian water, this richly coloured beauty opens with a nice whiff of toffee and smoke from six different, deep-roasted malts, then with a refreshing bit of spice from Canadian rye, and then comes into balance with American hops.
 

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4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Tasting at Erik's
Hazy red-amber color; gushing bottle. Off smell, yeast; highly carbonated, harsh mouthfeel, too much yeast, covering the caramel and malt.
Infected.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Dec 2017 at 04:03


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Dark amber, bit of haze. Thin head. The aroma is toasty with a little bit of hop fruitiness and a whiff of brettanomyces. There’s a bit of a chocolatey note, with more of that toastiness that seems to come from the rye. The hop aroma drops out, and there’s a fair bit of bitterness in the finish. The brett is kicking in, starting to thin the body out a bit, and lending...well...it’s a character that’s obviously not supposed to be there but I enjoy it anyway. A lucky accident, that we opened at just the right time.

Tried on 04 Oct 2016 at 20:46


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle - Light cedar and apple notes. Clearish Amber with a small beige head. Funky, caramel and some bitterness. A bit off but ok.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2016 at 20:45


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

500mL bottle, pours a hazy reddish amber with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out toasted malt and some stale bread. Flavour is along the same lines, with toasted malt and stale bread. Light bittering hops. Something a bit off here. Not feeling this.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2016 at 20:44


5.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear amber with a near white head that dissipates slowly to the edges and laces. Aroma has a combination of bread and sweet grains with a hint of caramel underlying. Flavor has sweet grain, light caramel and a bit of stale bread.

Tried from Draft on 04 Oct 2016 at 11:52