Bleeding Buckeye Red Ale
Elevator Brewing Company in Columbus, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.08
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Elevator Taproom. Pours clear amber red with a white head. Aroma: roasted malts, bready, caramel, floral hop. Taste: light sweet & moderate bitter, caramel, nutty, toasted biscuit, earthy. Medium body, moderate carb, light dry finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Draft - Dark malts, caramel malts. Cloudy copper with a rich white head. Sweet and grainy Amber malts with a touch of vegetal notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Draft - pours amber white head - nose/taste of bread, light burnt barley - med body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 ounce can into pint glass, no can dating. Pours slightly hazy deep orange/copper color with a 1-2 finger dense and fluffy light khaki headh with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, raisin, plum, apple, herbal, floral, grass, light pepper, and yeast earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, raisin, plum, apple, herbal, floral, grass, light pepper, an y east earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, nuttiness, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitterness as well. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a nice Irish red/ESB style. All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light-moderate fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. A nicely enjoyable offering.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Milky caramel malt and hay aroma. Dark amber with small head. Lightly sweet nutty toffee malt and mildly bitter herbal hay flavor. Medium body. Decent.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3.5
12oz bottle pours a hazy brown with tons of frothy white head. Nose has some earthy malt, honeycomb but also a lot of wet paper bag, cracker too. Flavor has walnut skin, toast, wet paper bag. Herbal finish. Just bad.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
From a bottle smells rather friendly but then that first taste is wake up call. Yes, malty slightly sweet smell turns into big bud blast. Must be close to 7% or more, if that’s possible. Big long bitter alky malt finish. Some co2 almost saves my palate.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle: (5.7%) Pours clear, copper red with a thick, oatmeal coloured head. Caramel, cola aroma. Taste is watery caramel malt, with a slight leafy bitter...bread heel. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle. FIltered glowing ruby burgundy red orange. Foamy, steady off-white to beige head. Kind of too lame to call an ESB, let’s just call this an Amber. Big malt center, mild indistinguishable hop character. Some richness to it, touches of vanilla and cherry, ie amber malt. Decent enough, malt centered Red.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours a light tan head with trailing lace and amber color. Aroma is fruity/herbal, musty, medium malt. Taste is citrus/herbal, musty, secondary sweet medium malt-bready.