Red Bud
Greenbush Brewing Company in Sawyer, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Wheat Ale Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.91
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Red Bud is no exception to our myriad beers with personality disorders. A directionally challenged copper wheat ale, it's hopped just enough to balance the distinct wheatiness.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Hazy amber-orange with a huge, slow, off-white head. Sweetened orange aroma. Taste is candy-sugar-orange, caramel malt, orange-peel. Light and airy, with a pleasant increasing peel-leafy bitterness. very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2018
at 23:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Orange, sugar, toffee malt, and orange peel aroma. Hazy amber with giant off-white head. Lightly sweet citrus, buttery toffee malt, and moderately bitter orange peel flavor. Good body. Interesting hybrid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2018
at 00:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 10/15/2015. Pours moderately hazy/cloudy deep orange/copper color with a 2 finger dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of grapefruit, pineapple, lemon zest, orange peel, pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, wheat, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/earthy hops and dark/bready malt notes; with good strength. Taste of big grapefruit, pineapple, lemon zest, orange peel, pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, wheat, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Moderate amount of piney/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of grapefruit, pineapple, lemon/orange peel, pepper, pine, caramel, brown sugar, wheat, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Moderate amount of dryness from bitterness as well. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/bready/sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a very nice hoppy dark wheat ale style. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/earthy hops and dark/bready malt flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2015
at 21:37
6/10
Funky malt profile
Tried
on 27 Feb 2015
at 15:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at Crunchy’s, East Lansing. Slightly hazy orange-copper body, thin ring of creamy carbonation. Light grassy, fruity nose. Grassy, biscuity, slightly nutty body with light sweetness and hints of alcohol. Rather dry.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Nov 2011
at 17:42