Red Racer Imperial IPA (Red Betty)
Central City Brewers & Distillers (Red Racer) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.31
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 17
Nose of sweet malt, tropical fruit and citrus hops. The taste profile of this IIPA pops with fresh intensity and complexity. Hops are up front, with tastes ranging from tropical fruit, kiwi, juicy citrus, resin and some earthiness. The malt is bready and sweet but substantial, with toffee notes. There is just a hint of sourness down there as well. The aftertaste maintains this complex mix, with the punchiest hops receding slightly to profile the malt, toffee and the softer tropical hops. One of the best. The juicy fruit is going to move you. And the malt is so soft it gets right to you.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Copper pour, big white head, aroma is all pine, big sticky pine resin, with some light green hop cones. The body is oily, and sticky, a solid carb. The finish is medium bitter, some light alcohol, with some great pithy pin resin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bomber at home. Clear dark orange color, full sized white head. Aroma is malts, loads of resinous piney spruce hoppiness. Flavor is malts, hops, resin and spruce hoppiness, hop bitter, resinous spruce hop bitter, slightly some caramel. Body is decent to medium, decent carbonation. I love the resinous / spruce hoppiness, although the beer also leans towards a barleywine and that -for me- means it is just over the top. They've just overdone it imo. Still quite nice, but just over the top. Pleasant though. 8-4-8-4-15.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
47,3 cl can @ Timo A’s Go Nucks! tasting
Aroma is typical to american strong ales; sweet malty notes with some hops – but malts are on the winning side. Flavour has sweet malty notes, grapefruity hops, some resin, malty-resiny feeling of an APA and finish of menthol. Not sure where could I use a beer like this; there are better slow sippers and there are better DIPAs.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
10/11/2018. Bottle from Beautiful Beers, Bury St Edmunds. Pours hazy golden amber with a foamy off-white head. Aroma of toffee, pine, hops, sweet stewed fruits, apricots, mango, malt and citrus bitters. Moderate sweetness, medium plus bitterness. Medium to full body, sticky texture, average carbonation. Very good.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Has a good white foam and a deeper gold body. Aroma is mellow funky malt with hints of hops. Flavour is soft slight vegetable with odd hints of fermented brown sugar. Mouthfeel is medium and a bit oily but the high alcohol is well hidden. This is an okay big IPA but ultimately middling.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Beer Republic. Hazy amber red with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and moderate hoppy - fruity and old hops. Flavor is quite sweet and very bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 280918
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
clear amber colour, one inch dense slightlyyellowish off-white head; aroma of grapefruit, orange zest, some tangerine, tropical fruits and slight strawberry (?), fresh cut grass, as well as intensive pine resiny notes; bittersweet taste with oily-resiny hoppy bitterness and biscuity-tropical fruity-syrupy sweetness; great IIPA!