Carrack Imperial Red Ale
Mission Brewery in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.84
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Like its namesake the Carrack, this fine American Imperial Red Ale was designed to forge ahead into uncharted territories. You see, it has the gravity and feist of an Imperial IPA, yet it is balanced with a sweeter, caramel brown sugar profile, resulting in a far more mellifluous and tenebrous hue. The result is satisfying and rewarding. The great ship was otherwise known as "The Beast of Burden." So too, is this fine ale.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle from Beer Run. Pours a hazy rust color with a medium sized frothy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of citrus hops, toffee malts a bit of rye. The taste is rye, caramel, stone fruits, bitter resin, fruity hops. Medium bodied, strong lingering bitterness, slight heat, a bit disjointed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2014
at 17:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Red hue, deep amber color. Very malty with caramel and strawberry notes. Fairly boozy. Ok. Not very distinguishable.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2013
at 18:29
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft at the brewery - San Diego. Pours lightly hazy amber with a creamy tan head. Rich bread in the nose with plenty of pine and dank, lightly darkened citrus. Medium to big sweet flavor with lots of ripe, juicy citrus, grapefruit, berries, orange, red meat, heavy bread, sticky pine. Medium to full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, well and resinous with juicy citrus fruits, some urine, bread, toffee, ripe orange. Heavy duty stuff but is still pretty tasty and drinkable.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Dec 2013
at 16:09
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle - Big malts with a ton of grapefruit hops. Clear copper with a nice rich beige head. Hops, malts and booze which has a boozey finish then goes sweet. This beer seems a bit disjointed, where each component is fighting rather than working together.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2013
at 22:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12oz bottle pours with a clear deep ruby red body that supports an off white head of foam. The aroma has some malts, roasted malts, slivers of cherry and then prune like dark fruity esters as well as a mix of resiny somewhat pine hops and booze. The taste begins with bitter pine hops, some roasted malts and then growing into resiny pine hop nuanced sweet dark fruity esters and sweet malts. It stays nice and bitter right into the boozy finish. Nice big big red ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2013
at 08:37
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Caramel malt and alcohol aroma. Clear amber with a small off-white head. Caramel malt, herbal bitter hops, and alcohol flavor. Medium body, soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2013
at 18:17
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Vanilla caramel malt and alcohol aroma. Dark amber. Sweet caramel malt and moderately bitter herbal flavor. Alcoholic finish. Okay
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2013
at 15:45
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours red-brown with a quick, thin, yellow-tan film. Caramel, grapefruit peel, sugar aroma. Piney, rye malt taste. Pronounced woody bitter, tannic. Alcohol is a little roughly presented.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2013
at 12:47
10/10
Tried
on 15 Sep 2013
at 09:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Bine and Vine. Pours hazy ruddy copper with a creamy light tan head. Nose has roast malt and grapefruit rind. Near full bodied. Flavor is nicely roasty/toasty malt with a large amount of grapefruit rind. Develops a mild hop burn rather quickly. Yeah for hoppy!
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2013
at 16:24