Spark House Red
Lake of Bays Brewing Company in Baysville, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Amber / Red Ale - American Regular|
Score
5.72
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2019 GOLD Ontario Brewing Award WINNER!
Pours with a deep copper, almost reddish-brown hue resembling teak, with an ivory-coloured foam that lingers nicely. The aromatics are all malt – caramel, toffee, roasted grains, darker breads like pumpernickel and rye, and a very slight note of smokiness. The flavours are roasted grain, nutty and toffee with that subtle smoky note. The mouth feel is dry and roasted with moderate bitterness and a well-balanced finish.
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Flaked Wheat, Crystal, Chocolate Malt, and Roast Barley.
Hops: Magnum, Cascade, Saaz.
Ingredients: Water, Malted Barley, Flaked Wheat, Hops, Yeast.
Pours with a deep copper, almost reddish-brown hue resembling teak, with an ivory-coloured foam that lingers nicely. The aromatics are all malt – caramel, toffee, roasted grains, darker breads like pumpernickel and rye, and a very slight note of smokiness. The flavours are roasted grain, nutty and toffee with that subtle smoky note. The mouth feel is dry and roasted with moderate bitterness and a well-balanced finish.
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Flaked Wheat, Crystal, Chocolate Malt, and Roast Barley.
Hops: Magnum, Cascade, Saaz.
Ingredients: Water, Malted Barley, Flaked Wheat, Hops, Yeast.
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5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
There is a crap load of metaphor wiggle room for a beer named Spark House (apparently another name for a forest fire lookout tower). it sends the imagination ablaze. Smoked malt? Piney hops? Juniper berries? Woody oak cask? But LB’s beer sputters and fails. Pours a bark brown, big round bubbles that result in, well, not much. The head burns off after than a morning mist on Lake Ontario before settling into ...nothing. Nose of molasses and malts, and something... rye? The taste is roasted malt, but not impressive. The aftertaste has a little ash, ciggy ash, and a mild hop bitterness. I got burned when I bought this one.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2014
at 16:15
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This amber ale poured a deep red colour with next to no head. Scents include raspberries, malt, fruit juice and honey. First sip was slightly watery in consistency but had pretty good flavour. Flavours of hops, malt, leather and bread. Finish has medium hop flavour with cereal and toast on the side. Palate is mildly bitter with malty flavours.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2014
at 19:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
6-pack from the LCBO. Pours a clean copper colour with a big frothy light-beige head that lasts a while gives out a few bubbly lace. Great fruity roasted malt nose with some coffee at first, and a little nutty. Decent fruity malt taste with a little of the nuts and mild hop bittering things a bit. This is quite a nice red ale. One of the better ones I have had for this style.
Tried
on 22 Feb 2013
at 21:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(bottle) clear dark amber with small light brown head; aromas of stewed fruit, bit of citrus, bit of roast; balanced flavour with long light bitter finish; resembles more a light stout than an amber ale
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2012
at 10:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
A really decent red. Smells like caramel roast malt and light hops. Steady foam that lasts through whole pint. Taste has a light sourness to it. Beer has a really dark maroon colour. On cask at Castro’s Lounge.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Apr 2012
at 20:22
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a medium brown color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some light lacing. Aroma consists of light dry caramel malt with some light cereal notes. Taste is also a mix between some non-descript cereal notes with some dry caramel malt. Body is average with good carbonation. Middle of the road amber ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2012
at 11:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cloak and Dagger, Toronto 20oz pour ($5): Pours a dark amber color with an ok lookin’ head. Aroma is caramel malt and some hops. Taste is mosly similar. Nice amount of bitterness for an amber ale. Good flavour profile in general I would say. Easily sessionable. Not too complex, but definitely better than the run-of-the-mill amber in my opinion.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2012
at 18:39
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
A reddish brown ale with a thin lacing moka head. In aroma, pleasant nutty malt and floral hops, lightly resinous, chocolate notes. In mouth, a nice nutty and lightly peaty malt, with good hopping, more like a brown than a rousse....but very nice. Bottle from Probstk, thanks Karl.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2011
at 16:45