Red Betty IPA (aka Red Racer IPA)
Central City Brewers & Distillers (Red Racer) in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.15
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The IPA was fashioned to survive the long voyage from England to India during the British colonization. Hops, hops and more hops! Red Betty IPA has an intense aroma and a long lingering finish. A beer for the connoisseur, this is the brewmaster's choice.
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4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 4
Overall 19
Sweet malt and citrus hops in the nose. Very punchy and fresh tasting hop medley, featuring citrus, grapefruit, pine and orange elements. Soft bready malt underneath completes the classic west coast IPA profile. Significant carbonation pumps up the taste. \"Juicy and fresh\" - the great descriptor of superior West Coast IPAs!
Tried
from Can
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:00
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear copper pour, medium white head, thick lacing. Very pine resinous aroma, with some good citrus notes. Solid bready malts, some light grasses and cereals. Medium bitterness, resinous finish.
Earlier Rating: 9/13/2010 Total Score: 4
Wicked stuff!
Huge amounts of juicy citric hops! BIg High alpha hops! Bloody orange, mandarin, tangerine. So juicy, and citric. An everyday drinker if i could get it everyday!
Earlier Rating: 9/13/2010 Total Score: 4
Wicked stuff!
Huge amounts of juicy citric hops! BIg High alpha hops! Bloody orange, mandarin, tangerine. So juicy, and citric. An everyday drinker if i could get it everyday!
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:46
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Early rating from Beer Buddy app
Tried
on 09 Apr 2021
at 02:02
6.8/10
A classic 90s ipa. West coast, very firm but clean bitterness. Good malt body. Sk co-op
Tried
on 22 Dec 2020
at 00:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
From a 500ml can on 7/1/2020 Pours a clear deep golden with a medium head. Has a big resinous hoppy nose. Tastes of sweet caramel, bread and biscuit malt, which is met by a thunderous, clanging hop bitterness - masses of pine and resin which coats the tongue and lingers long. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A flavour packed old school IPA which has a lot going for it. Could just use a shade more balance, but still nice stuff. Great artwork on the can too.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jan 2020
at 10:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Clear orangish amber with a large white head. Aroma of pine, caramel and grapefruit. Medium bodied, somewhat creamy texture. Not as sweet as expected with more bread crust than caramel notes. Plenty of citrus and pine but it builds rather than thwacks. Firmly bitter finish. There were many cruder examples of this sort of thing around a decade ago. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Nov 2019
at 12:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Foggy deep gold. Decent head. Nose: honey, malts, sugared fruit, some dank. Medium body. Taste: solid malt base. Pronounced still soft hop bitterness. Pleasant ending. Good.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2019
at 18:14
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Aroma: Fruity hops with caramel and malt. Flavour: Fruity and malty sweet with a fruity bitter finish. Colour: Amber with an offwhite head. From: Can @ Torben Mathews Tasting Nov. 2018.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Feb 2019
at 14:15
8/10
Bready malt, piney hop. Goeie bitterheid. Klassiek amerikaanse ipa met ook redelijk wat moutigheid om de boel te dragen
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2019
at 17:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
355ml can. Crystal clear, amber colour with small to average, frothy to creamy, slowly osteoporosing, fairly lacing, white head. Resinous, piney and citrusy, minimally soapy, hoppy aroma, notes of pine, lemon peel, some orange, mandarine, caramel malty background. Taste is crisp, bitter, resinous, piney and citrusy hoppy, slightly sweet caramel malty basis, notes of pine, lemon peel, orange peel, mandarine; lingering, piney and bitter hoppy finish. Oily texture, smooth and soft palate. Very clean - paradigmatic West Coast IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Jan 2019
at 17:26