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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Irish-Style Red Ale
Malt dominant beer with caramel flavors. Moderately low hop bitterness off sets the malty sweetness.
Malt dominant beer with caramel flavors. Moderately low hop bitterness off sets the malty sweetness.
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8/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2019
at 02:45
6.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Aug 2016
at 13:53
7/10
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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: ??/??-????
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: ??/??-????
Tried
from Can
on 10 Jul 2016
at 09:56
6.5/10
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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!
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!
Tried
from Can
on 04 May 2014
at 22:58
6.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Feb 2012
at 13:25