Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft. A deep red beer with a huge tan head. The aroma has strong notes of grapefruit and hops, combined with medium notes malt, spices, and fruit. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of hops, and medium notes of malt, caramel, bisquits, and grapefruit, leading to a very bitter finish.
Earlier Rating: 11/23/2010 Total Score: 3.9
Draft. A deep red beer with a lazing thin brown head. The aroma has strong notes of hops and fruits, combined with lighter notes of spices, cinnamon and more. The flavor is sweet and very malty with notes of berries, hops, and spices, leading to a very bitter finish.
Earlier Rating: 8/20/2006 Total Score: 2.9
A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma is sweet spicy - I guess from the hops. The flavor is sweet malty with caramel being most dominant, but also a light spicyness.
yespr (55501) reviewed Shark Bite Red Ale from Pizza Port (Bressi Ranch) 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
From tap at Ølbaren. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a small off white head. Aroma is fruity, peachy and slight grapefruity. Fruity and bitter flavoured. Light sweetness. Grapefruity and bitter finish.
Earlier Rating: 11/21/2010 Total Score: 3.8
From tap at Ørsted Ølbar. Pours clear and golden amber with a small, creamy and off-white head. Aroma is roasted malt and pinewood. Caramelish thick, sweet and pinewood hoppy. Goes dry and bitter into the finish. Lasting thick malty and pinewood hoppy.
Earlier Rating: 8/6/2008 Total Score: 3.8
From tap at San Clemente (!). Pours brown with a redish/orange glare. Fruity and dense pineneedle hops aroma. Smooth caramel malt base and nicely hoppy balanced flavour. Nice lingering dense fruity finish. Smooth and hoppy finish. Nice one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
dark amber color. Lots of grapefruit and caramel, but well balanced, easy drinking beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draft. An amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and spices. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel as well as a lighter note of spices, leading to a dry finish.
Earlier Rating: 7/8/2009 Total Score: 3
Draft in Solana Beach. A hazy light amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet matly combined with malt. The flavor is sweet and plainly malty with almost no bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep copper beer with a lasting off-white head. Malty aroma with biscuit, bread crust and caramel, and a note of tea. Biscuit and caramel flavour with some hay and a mild bitterness
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
tap at ørsted ølbar. Clear red brown amber, smooth light brown head. 4 very nice well balanced hoppy and malty aroma. Supernice aroma8. Flavor is quite bitter, berries, fruitpeel bitterness, wood, very complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at Pizza Port, Ocean Beach
Appearance: Pours mahogany with a nice off-white head and good lacing left in the glass
Aroma: Toasted malts, nutty and caramel
Taste: Smokey, nutty and caramel
Nice, clean and crisp.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the brewpub. This beer is a clear dark reddish-amber color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily. Thin sheet of lacing on the glass. Caramel malt aroma along with hops in the nose. Medium body with a well balanced sweet biscuit malt and citrusy hops character. The finish is sweet with a lingering caramel finish. Decent Amber overall.
Earlier Rating: 4/11/2008 Total Score: 3.1
Sample at the brewpub. This beer is a hazy amber color with a thin beige head that dissipates quickly. Spotty lacing. The aroma is moderately hoppy with a solid earthy malt undertone. Medium-bodied and round with subtle hops, fruit and malt flavors. The finish is balanced between piney hops and malt. Overall this is a somewhat toned-down take on the original, despite what the name implies. I was not very impressed.
Earlier Rating: 4/11/2008 Total Score: 3.5
Draught at the Solana Beach location. The beer pours a clear brownish amber color with a medium thin beige head that dissipates steadily. Thin rings of lacing with some spots. Toasted malt, hops and mild spice in the nose. Medium-bodied and smooth with moderate hops, herbs and spice and grainy malt flavors. The finish is hoppy and spicy with a lingering bitterness. Pretty solid flagship beer overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at the brewpub. This brew is a clear orange color with a medium thin bone white head that recedes steadily. Sticky strings of lacing. Sweet bready malt and hops in the nose. Light to medium body with a pretty even balance of hops and malt flavors. The finish is bready malt at first with a mildly hopped aftertaste. Decent overall.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap. Clear amber golden with an off-white head. Fresh, citrusy nose. Medium body with sweetish caramel and fruit. Distinctly bitter finish. 080709