Barrio Rae’s Red

Brewed by Barrio Brewing Co.
Style: American Strong Ale
Tucson, Arizona USA

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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10oz pour at brewpub nice sweet aroma with a bit of alcohol. Flavor is chewy malt with assetive hopping. Nice grain and hop finish.

Deep amber pour with creamy tan head and lace. Aroma of sour malt, and brown sugar. Caramel malt, abv, and light molasses. Medium/full bodied with good carbonation. A nice beer.

Raegan’s Red–on tap-pours an off white head with trailing lace and amber color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel, spice/herbal hops.

On tap @ Barrio during RBWG - Pours a slightly reddish-copper color with a small off white head. Aroma is pine and herbal hops and light esters. Flavor is caramel malt, hops, and esters. Finish is kinda bitter and the caramel malt lingers. Alcohol is too bad. A nice beer.

pours hazy red with a small soapy white head. pine, sweet malt and lite diacytl on the nose. piney , sweet carmel malt lite diacytl on the flavors. big alcohol on the finish-ugh! i have never had a beer this big with diacytl. there is something wrong with this brewery to have a huge beer like this with diacytl. toffee, pine needles and butter doinate the finish. alcohol is huge on the finish. man i cant finish this!

Sampled on tap at Barrio Brewing; March 2011
This has a red amber color and it is topped by a tan head. The aroma has lots of caramelized citrus notes to it. This has a huge, fruity hoppiness with notes of peach, lychee, ripe tangelo as well as spicy pepper-like hops and an herbal almost vegetal hop notes. The malt comes into play in the nose with a big toasted cracker note in the finish as well as a touch of biscuit-like character.

The beer tastes of herbal, bitter, green hops, menthol and pine up front. This is joined by fruit-leaning hop notes reminiscent of tangerine, citrus zest, berry notes (from both the malt and hop combination) and grapefruit. There is a fair amount of pine and light herbal hop notes here. The texture is a bit chewier than I might prefer, but it is not heavy or cloying at all and even manages to be somewhat quaffable. As the beer warms the balance moves towards the crystal malt side of things; there is almost a toffee or buttery character (that I don’t think is diacetyl derived) as well as flavors reminiscent of sweet tea, and a crystal malt sweetness that is very rich and luckily not simplistically sweet. There is alcohol noticeable in the finish that provides a spiciness, especially as it warms up, and this can almost be hot at times. The hops always play the lead role though.

Draft at Barrio. Pours hazy red, thin off-white head, decent-to-good lacing. Nose is red fruits, especially strawberries, nice malt sweetness coming through as well, spicy, lightly soapy hops. Flavours are big red fruit, shades of herbs & spice. Pretty alright!

Red pour. Off white. Hoppy, caramel, bready, toffee, fruit. Flavor is a bit sweet, citrus, hoppy, bread, and some tropical notes.