Cwrw Coch (Red Bandit)
Cader Ales (Cwrw Cader) in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.38
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A warm ruby ale based on a traditional recipe with spicy berry aromas. Legend tells of the Red Bandits of Mawddwy; a notorious 16th century band of ‘flame haired’ outlaws who roamed the hills ambushing travellers as they crossed the high pass between Dolgellau and Dinas Mawddwy. Fabled to be the most lawless part of Wales at that time, the area remains a beautiful but still desolate point today.
Previously 5.0%.
Previously 5.0%.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, Machynlleth. Pours reddy brown with a small head. Aroma is jammy burnt toast. Taste has earthy hedgerow fruit and jammy bread.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Apr 2018
at 17:38
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml bottle @ Myrddin’s Bar Caffi, Barmouth. Pours reddish amber, small bubbly head. Aroma of light caramel malt, light spice. Taste is smooth, quite light, breezy malts, lightly spicy, earthy hops. No world-beater but served its purpose on this baking hot day.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2017
at 08:25
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (gravity) @ Nottingham Robin Hood Beer Festival (2014), Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 6EL. [ As Cader Red Bandit ].Clear medium yellow - amber orange color with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, pale malt, apple. Flavor is moderate sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, earthy hops, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20141008]
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jul 2015
at 02:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle share round at Richy’s. Reddy amber. Off white head. Fruit. Sweet malts. Tastes pithy bitter. Has a spiciness to it. Pretty drinkable ESB.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2015
at 08:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
27th June 2015: 500ml bottle taken by me to the 2nd Annual Midlands tasting, just to give everyone a new Welsh brewery tick. Split between 5, so we all had a decent amount to rate. Not as red as the bottle label would have you believe: it is light amber in colour, the head off-white, still looks OK though, even if it isn’t red. Malty lead in the nose and flavour with a red berry feel to both also, some herbal like spiciness runs through the brew too. Another decent beer to come out of Wales.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2015
at 15:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle during 2nd Annual Midlands tasting group; clear amber pour with a frothy beige head, aroma has light fruit, caramel taste light fruit, some spice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2015
at 11:20
6/10
Tried
on 03 Aug 2014
at 04:55
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On gravity at the Great Welsh Beer & Cider festival, 6/6/2013. Reddish amber with a slight, off-white head. Malty brew with a touch of caramel, berry fruits and touch of spice in the finish. Good.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2013
at 23:05