Red God IPA
Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.27
|
|
Blessed be! Our ridiculously big, hoppy I.P.A. returns to the rapturous exaltations of worshippers far and near.
Featuring Simcoe, Amarillo, and Columbus hops at an unheard of rate of over three pounds per barrel, with American pale and Belgian caramel malts providing a malty but dry pedestal upon which this hop fest rides until its long, lingering,hop-bittered finish. Beware this vengeful, Old-Testament God. Say your prayers…
Featuring Simcoe, Amarillo, and Columbus hops at an unheard of rate of over three pounds per barrel, with American pale and Belgian caramel malts providing a malty but dry pedestal upon which this hop fest rides until its long, lingering,hop-bittered finish. Beware this vengeful, Old-Testament God. Say your prayers…
Sign up to add a tick or review
8.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Location: 22 oz bottle from Nikki's Liquors, 4/16/15
Aroma: The aroma is a toffee/caramel, some strong hops as well, pine, resin, earth, and a little berry
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish color, with a small fizzy/frothy beige head and drippy/streaky lace
Flavor: Has a nice, pretty balanced, the malty flavor balances out the big hop bitterness nicely
Palate: The body is medium-plus, nice and smooth feel, soft carbonation, and a dry finish
Overall Impression: I really enjoyed this one. This is a very nice Imperial Red with a ton of flavor to it. It's more bitter than it is malty, but the balance is there to make the flavor really quite nice. Heck of a beer. Nice job here by CBC.
Aroma: The aroma is a toffee/caramel, some strong hops as well, pine, resin, earth, and a little berry
Appearance: It pours a dark reddish color, with a small fizzy/frothy beige head and drippy/streaky lace
Flavor: Has a nice, pretty balanced, the malty flavor balances out the big hop bitterness nicely
Palate: The body is medium-plus, nice and smooth feel, soft carbonation, and a dry finish
Overall Impression: I really enjoyed this one. This is a very nice Imperial Red with a ton of flavor to it. It's more bitter than it is malty, but the balance is there to make the flavor really quite nice. Heck of a beer. Nice job here by CBC.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2015
at 18:20
7.4/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Red amber color. Aroma special malts, caramel, honey and fruit. Taste some wine, malts, dried fruit, warm and much bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2015
at 04:44
7.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
’Imperial red ale’ so a kind of hybrid between Irish red and imperial IPA. Pale beige, creamy head quickly dissipating under influence of the alcohol, deep copper red colour, hazy. Powerful aroma of figues, cooked rhubarb, gin, cloves, leafy hops, tonic water, cognac, amaretto, grapefruit peel. Fruity sweetness, slick and resinous, medium carbo, citrus freshness, caramel malt base, ever more hoppy towards the end, soft and herbal at first but sharp and tonic water-like in the tail, lots of booze too, alcohol not well hidden, even a bit wry.
Tried
on 31 Aug 2014
at 12:20
7.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours reddish amber with off white head. Nose/taste of caramel malt, sap, dank citrus and grapefruit peel, orange peel, resin and dirty earthy grass. medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2014
at 22:16
8.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
22oz bomber pours with a clear ruby red amber sort of body that supports a full tan head of foam. Nice looking beer. The aroma offers up resiny hops, floral hops, plum flavored gummy bears and some orange notes. The resiny hop aroma just keeps going despite the sweetness and this leads to resiny hoppy booze at the end of the draw. This taste is hoppy bitter and rich with sweetness. This is nice where there’s a pleasing mix of sweet malts, a dash of roasted malts, some fruity esters and then near robust levels of resiny pine like hops blended with bitter floral hops and some citrus hoppiness. Resiny hops and a sliver of roasted malts usher this to closure. This is coming together beautifully. Yum!
Tried
on 26 Mar 2014
at 18:45
7.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber shared by Marcus. Pours ruddy copper with a beige head. Aroma of fruit hop and a touch of chocolate. Med body. Flavor is hoppy with fruit and citrus. Mild not-quite-roasty malt with a hint of chocolate. Finishes towards dry.
Tried
on 17 Feb 2014
at 15:59
8.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
1st December 2012
Hazy dark amber - brown beer, good pale tan head. Palate is slightly soft and has nice fine carbonation. Luxuriant creamy malt, soft and with caramel and toffee streaks. Hops are well balanced with equal amounts of skunk, grass and citrus. Finishes smooth with a good grassy hop aftertaste. Nice Imperial Red!
Hazy dark amber - brown beer, good pale tan head. Palate is slightly soft and has nice fine carbonation. Luxuriant creamy malt, soft and with caramel and toffee streaks. Hops are well balanced with equal amounts of skunk, grass and citrus. Finishes smooth with a good grassy hop aftertaste. Nice Imperial Red!
Tried
on 04 Aug 2013
at 05:05
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Slightly hazy amber colour, beige head. Aroma of hops, quite fruity, tropical fruit, light pine, passion fruit. Hoppy flavour, light bitter, malts and honey. Bitter hoppy finish, tropical fruits.
(From 66cL bottle @ RBESG 2013 Grand Tasting, Bodegraven. Thanks for sharing, dEnk!)
(From 66cL bottle @ RBESG 2013 Grand Tasting, Bodegraven. Thanks for sharing, dEnk!)
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2013
at 09:57
8.1/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
dark amber colour, huge beige head, which however collapses quite quickly; very pleasant aroma of citrussy (mainly grapefruit) and floral hops, bread, hints of honey and maybe some minimal alcohol; taste of hoppy bitterness and significant amount of malty sweetness (this latter one is a bit too intensive for me, ruining a bit the harmony of hops); not bad imperial IPA, but a bit overpriced ...and my bottle indicates also 9% ABV
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2013
at 11:04
7.3/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
65 cl. bottle sampled @ RBESG 2013. Thx! to dEnk. My notes appear to state that the bottle was from June 2012. Pours a darker hazy amber with a creamy mocha head. Nose is earthly, spicy hops, older hops, some ice tea, faded somewhat. Taste is bitter earthly hops, bitter spices, light herbs, leaves, some resin, light liquorish,… Bit thicker body. Probably way too old but still enjoyable for sure.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2013
at 05:43