Nethergate Brewery Red Car Summer Ale

Red Car Summer Ale

 

Nethergate Brewery in Long Melford, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Summer
Score
5.71
ABV: 3.8% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Previously 4.5%
 

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5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

From cask at Wheatsheaf. Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is sligh malty and vague herbal hoppy. Sweet and malty flavoured. Crisp fruity and bitter. Dry hoppy. Bitter too.

Tried from Cask on 11 Aug 2010 at 00:35


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask (handpump) @ The Wheatsheaf, 6 Stoney Street, Southwark, London, Greater London England SE1 9AA.Clear light to medium yellow orange amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, caramel, toffee notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090731]

Tried from Cask on 07 Oct 2009 at 01:26


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Half pint, cask in fine shape at The Castle, Holborn. Dark amber content. Naked surface. Inviting smell of dried fruits. Caramel malts in flavour mixed with leafy hops. Modest bitter finish. The smell promised a bit more than the flavoured could hold. Soft carbonated (London, 03.08.2009).

Tried from Cask on 16 Aug 2009 at 14:47


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask@The Castle. Clear copper brown color, steady off-white head. Nutty woody hoppy aroma. Sweetish, toffeish flavor. Late light bitterness. Middle of the road cask ale. 6/3/6/2/11 2.8
Cask@The Whearsheaf. Pale amber color, steady medium-sized off-white head. Light nose is malty with some sweetness. Flavor has sweet maltyness with light fresh hops in the finish. Reasonably ok session beer, although not very complex. 6/3/6/3/12 3.0

Tried from Cask on 03 Aug 2009 at 19:05


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Amber with a small white head. Aroma of toffee, butter and citrus. Dry and fruity flavour and slightly tart

Tried on 27 Jul 2009 at 16:29


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask handpull at Wheatsheaf (new), London, Copper, thin off white head. Very fruity and then this grassy dryness, quite a combitnation so fast in the mouth. Malty aroma, fullish fruit salad in mouth. Some hop on finish.

Tried from Cask on 19 Jul 2009 at 03:29


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask@The Castle, London (Redcar Summer Ale, 4.5%). Amber colour. not too much head. Aroma is sour wood, mild vinegar and some sour fruity notes. Flavour is pine, very dry sour wood as well as some mild red sour berries lurking in the background.

Tried from Cask on 01 Oct 2008 at 01:32


3.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Clear amber with tiny white head. Sweet and sourish aroma with fruity notes. Flavor likewise with a sourish end.

Tried on 17 Sep 2008 at 14:05