8 Wired Tall Poppy India Red Ale

8 Wired Brewing
Brewed at Renaissance Brewing
Style: American Strong Ale
Blenheim, New Zealand

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Bottle 500ml. @ home.

Unclear - hazy medium red - orange amber colour with a large, frothy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, light heavy hoppy, citrus, pine, wood, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, hoppy, malt sweet, dry, resin - phenol notes. Body is medium, texture is oily and sticky, carbonation is soft. [20110827]

Draft. A hazy red beer with a yellow head. The aroma has notes of hops, straw, caramel, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, hops, spices, and malt, leading to a very bitter finish.

From tap at MikkellerBar. Pours hazy dark amber with a small tan head. Aroma is dense fruity and dark malty. Pinewood hoppy too. Dense malty and pinewood solid hoppy flavoured. Bone dry and bitter into the finish. Ends solid bitter.

On tap. Pours a cloudy amber with a yellowish head. Somewhat dusty hops in the nose. Medium body, quite some caramel, intensely herbal hoppiness leaving a bitter finish - distinctly bitter indeed! 130611

Bottled. Reddish amber colour with a small foamy off-white head. Aroma is floral hops, some honey, mild grass and quite caramelly and toffeeish. Mild wooden and herbal notes as well. Flavour is quite caramel malty, toffeeish, mild crisp maltyness as well as some fruity and floral hops with a nice wooden and herbal note coming in as well. Wellbalanced and refreshing. Easy to drink and hides the 7 % abv well.

Draught at Mikkeller Bar. Hazy orange red coloured with a medium sized off-white head. Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel, cookies, hops and pine needles. Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel, cookies, hops, pine needles and grape fruits. Dry hoppy finish.

Draft @ Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen. Pours a reddish amber color with a longlasting off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with hints of caramel. Fruity malty hoppy bitter flavor with hints of caramel. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.

Bottle @ Vinens Verden, Odense. Pours dark amber red with a creamy white head and lacings. Nose is hops and bready malts. Some buiscuit and a lovely fruity and flowery note with a hint of grass and berries. Well balanced. Flavor is buiscuit, caramel plus grassy and piney hops. Smooth and crisp. Very well made and quite hoppy.

Bottle from Kihøskh, Copenhagen; batch 29, bb 01 Apr 12, possibly 3 months old
Dark amber color, hazy, with a small-sized creamy head. The aroma has caramel, cream, some yeast (lightly cheesy), some fruity and resiny hop, bitter oranges. Dark caramel flavor, with a quite strong yeast presence, also a spicy yeast; strong bitterness, with hop resins and some bitter orange peel.
Powerful, but rough, un-elegant.

Bottle, 7%. Slightly spicy aroma, smells like a rough bitterness. Almost clear red chestnut colour. Small stable creamy tan head. The flavour is nutty, slightly salty, boozy. Good clean bitterness. Too much alcohol in my opinion.