Red Water Irish Style Red Ale
Crow Peak Brewing Company in Spearfish, South Dakota, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Rotating|
Score
6.78
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Malt dominant beer with caramel flavors. Moderately low hop bitterness off sets the malty sweetness.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce can into pint glass, no can dating. Pours slightly hazy/cloudy ruby reddish copper color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with fantastic 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 caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, roasted nuts, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of toffee, cocoa, plum, pear, red apple, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, roasted nuts, and brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of toffee, cocoa, plum, pear, red apple, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, woody, grassy, peppery, roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, roasted nuts, brown bread/crust, cocoa, plum, pear, red apple, herbal, wood, grass, pepper, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and lightly chalky mouthfeel that is great. Slight lingering resins through the glass. Minimal warming alcohol for 6.5%. Overall this is an excellent Irish red ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roasted malts and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish; nicely soft feel. Very clean and rich English malt complexity; restrained fruity yeast, and balancing earthy hops. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering. A bit more bitter/drying than expected, but still spot on style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bought a sixer to go from the brewery. Red Amber pour. Nose is malty and red fruit. Tastes of malt, light pine, red fruits, earthy bitter slight bubblegum. Semi sweet. Brought a can in backpack and cracked on summit of White Butte North Dakota the states highest point. Part of a great day.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Appearance: Clear red, small light tan head.
Aroma: Malt and slight caramel.
Taste: Medium malt, some dark fruit, caramel sweetness. Enjoyable.
Bought: Trade with RobertDale - thanks!, 355 ml can
Info: 9/7-2016, BB: ??/??-????
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Received in trade.
The appearance was an amber to red colored body with a quick dropping one fingered head that levels out practically immediately - whoah, weird, but ok, no worries, for the most part.
The smell was a roasty sort of carmel-ish maltiness coming through on my nose.
The taste was sweet and roasty with a decent caramel malty aftertaste and a dry finish.
On the palate, it sat about a light to medium, and could be somewhat sessionable to the palate and almost a decent beer to have with food.
Overall, hmmm...could this be a beer with food, I think so, not bad, and worthy of having again because its an American Red Ale. If I got a six pack, I’d most likely pour half of it in a beef stew and drink the rest. Worthy, drink up, you beer drinkers!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
on tap-pours mahogany with a tan head. Aroma is peat-medium malt with some cocoa, earthy. Taste is peat-medium malt with some cocoa, earthy hops.