Reilly's Red Ale
Devils Backbone Brewing Company in Lexington, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.57
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Canned. Poured reddish brown. Some malty notes. Not too shabby buy standard issue red.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Clear copper color. Slightly sweet bready aroma. Taste is bready, slightly sweet caramel, malt, and just a little bitter hops to balance. A little crisp with a sweet malt aftertaste. Good example of the style.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can from JP’s Wine & Spirits. A bit of a dull pour, kind of lifeless. Malts are present in spades however, sweet malts and what seems like a pinch of rye mustiness. Taste also features the malts, although it also seems like some peaty scotch notes as well. Sweet finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
$1.80 can. Pours coppery in color with a large off-white head with nice lacing. Smells of grasses, leaves, caramel malt, and tea. Tastes earthy. Leaves, caramel malts, bubblegum, and light fruit notes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Rich deep ruby tinted light brown coloured body with a nice two centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of heavy malt, alcohol, oak, light bourbon, cream and some subdued metallic notes. Medium-bodied; Biting toffee and caramel sweetness up front with a good rich toasted malt backbone with bits of oatmeal and earth noticeable and a sweet grain finish. Aftertaste shows a good depth with a lot of malt and toffee flavour and a little earthy and grass note as well. Overall, a fairly nice red with some more earthy flavours than usual and a light sweetness that lasts well. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 30-March-2014 for US$1.99 sampled at home in Washington on 18-May-2014.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draft. Clear orange red color, medium white head. Aroma is floral and fruity. Taste is more fruit.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft pour that was a relatively clear golden amber color with a small white head. Aroma was caramel notes, slightly crisp notes. Fruits in there. A creamy character to this one. Touch of bitterness on the finish. Pretty drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Mild malt nose. Crystal clear copper, medium head. Mushroomy barley flavor, lingering tree bark finish. Nicely done, no more exotic than one would expect for this style.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pizzeria Paradiso, Alexandria tap ($6): Pours a red color with an off-white head. Aroma is hops and caramel malts. This is not a bad beer, but it lacks a lot of that peculiar malt character that I really like in Irish Ales. It is slightly bitter from the hops that make it a wee bit stronger than the Irish versions. It is very sessionable, but nothing to be remembered.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.Clear medium to dark red amber color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, berry, moderate hoppy, fruity - berry. Initial flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter, finish flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, berries, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100806]