Barley and Hops Tuscarora Red

Brewed by Barley and Hops Grill and Microbrewery
Style: Amber Ale
Frederick, Maryland USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Tap at brewpub. Pours clear amber with a medium, creamy off-white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is light chocolate malt, nutty and caramel malt with earthy hops and fruity esters. Flavor is malty with light to medium earthy hops, fruity esters, medium bitterness and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth.

Draft. Pours reddish-amber with thick, frothy, light beige head; short retention and some lacing. Aroma is bread malt, caramel, plums, and light oak. Flavor is heavy malt, light hops, and medium esters; somewhat flat with a dry finish. Light body with low carbonation and warmth.

Red and clear, like amber. Malty with very little hop character. Like a barley tea. Pleasant.

They brew a lot of beers that seem really similar to me. Light caramel malt flavor with just a touch of hops. Decent and over exaggerated in their description.

Draft. Thick foamy head, red to amber color, clear.Medium body, but very smooth. Mild overall, malt permeates but not overpowering. Very drinkable, mild but with flavor and body.

Served on draft at the brewpub, 1/8/11. Pours a clear dark brownish red with a medium head. Poor head retention and lacing. Aroma of nuts with faint malty notes. The taste is sweet malts with a nutty finish. Thin bodied.

on tap-pours a thin off white head and copper color. Aroma is mild medium malt-caramel/chocolate, hint of citrus. Taste is mild medium malt-caramel/chocolate, hint of citrus, hint of English hops, some herbal/tea notes, with thin mouth fee. Easy drinking.

From draught sample at brewpub. Mild nutty sweetness with caramel. Bit of hoppy character but pretty mild nose. Coppery amber clear with thin head. Medium watery body with medium-light carbonation and a carbonic burn. Starts nutty with some caramel and toasted grains. Has decent neutral fruity character with mild bitter finish and nutty after. Dusty.

Draft sample at pub. Pours clear rad with off-white head. Nose is rater malty. Big caramel taste with a larger than average chocolate malt character, maybe some toffee. Balanced well with a crisp, noble hop ending. Tasty beer, even if the chocolate malt’s a bit overwhelming stylistically.

Draft at the brewery. Dark brown and burgundy colored body with a speckled bran muffin colored head... solid and foamy head initially but dies quickly. Very strong nose of toasted cereal grains, perhaps some cedar and tobacco notes as well, almost a little roast or burnt grains... this thing is all malt, entirely too sweet, slick on the palate, with a sweet and coarse husky grain flavor throughout. Too sweet and too coarse, finishing with an unpleasent flavor of soggy and moldy grains.