Rita Red Ale
Backstreet Brewery (Irvine) in Irvine, California, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.55
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber from CraftShack. Pours clear dark ruddy copper with a transient, and slight, beige head. Aromas of roasty malt, tea, and perhaps chocolate. Med body or so. Flavor is nutty, tea, roasty malt, and arguably some sort of hop. It’s not heading towards dry, but it’s not excessively sweet. I’m still viewing it as malt and tea. Decent drink.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2015
at 20:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On my six beer flight and then a pint at the brewpub (Irvine) on 7th July 2014. As the name suggests, this is beer with a red hue to it’s colouring, on top a small grubby white head. Fairly sweet nose and taste, malts leading the way, caramel and mild toffee notes sitting on a fruity/floral base. Number two in my scoring of the six I tried.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2014
at 01:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ Back Street Brewery Vista, Vista, CA. Pours a reddish amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy caramel aroma. Fruity malty hoppy caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy caramel finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Apr 2013
at 05:49
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear golden with a tiny white head. Hoppy nose with grapefruits, pale malt and pine. Flavour had plenty of hops, pine, grapefruit and pale malt. Fairly dry and bitter. Not bad.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2010
at 12:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample at the Irvine brewpub. The beer is a clear dark reddish-amber color with a thin and creamy beige head that burns away slowly. Stringy lacing. Aroma of caramel and toasted malt. Medium, clean body with flavors of sweet caramel malt, nuts and mild hops. The finish is roasted nuts and malt with a lingering sweetness left over. Slightly above average overall.
Tried
on 05 Jul 2008
at 23:01
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
on tap-pours an off white head and copper/red color. Aroma is mild medium malt-caramel/hint of chocolate/molasses, peat. Taste is medium malt-caramel/molasses, secondary earthy hops, hint of fruit.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2008
at 22:30