Not red, just pale. Big head. Clean fresh mildly perfumed smell, its attractive to the olfactory. Taste is full of ginger spice, more than I have ever had before in a beer. Big surprise on the palate fer sure. Yes, so much ginger it leaves your palate in shock. Ginger ginger ginger. Warming sensation all around my pie hole and down the gullet. Quite an experience. Tasty! Really hides the 7% alky well!