3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Brown Coloring with White Skin. Fruity, Notably Raspberry...Dry and Crisp Ending. Pretty Sweet Overall but Decently Drinkable.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20
Bottle. Light caramel malt , sour apple, and toast aroma. Amber with a small fizzy off-white head. Cloying sweet malt, metallic fruitiness, and a very light underlying bitter flavor. Medium body. Overly sweet for my taste.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Tap. Pours clear amber with a small, fizzy white head, short retention with spare lacing. Aroma is cookie, toast and light caramel malt, fruity esters and earthy hops. Flavor is malt dominant with light hops and bitterness, fruity esters and a dry finish. Medium body, light warmth and carbonation.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Aroma has notes of caramel malts and citrus hops. Appearance is dark reddish brown hue with a small fizzy/foamy off-white head that mostly diminished and left little lace. Flavor is medium sweet and lightly bitter. Palate is medium bodied and watery average. Overall a nonevent.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Dark copper with a persistent head and spotty lacing. The taste is sweet pungent malt that carries through to a very light bitter finish. A little heavy for the style and abv; not bad enough to dismiss, not good enough to recommend.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
"Berghoff Rock River Red Ale" Bottle pours copper with a khaki head. Aroma is sweet and somewhat flat with notes of caramel and maybe
a touch of apple. Flavor is heavy sweet with an underlying earthy/herbal bitterness. The alcohol is extremely apparent even considering it’s only 5.6%. Overall body is moderate and the finish is lightly bitter.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
@ ORD. Berghoff Amber? Dull, dark amber. Thin head. Bland aroma leaning towards caramel. The caramel palate is pretty bland, with a hint of that caramelly sweetness. Ok, but kind of macro-ish.
3.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A bit sweet, but much better than expected. Red gold color with modest head. Solid body. Grain flavor and some fruit hops.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
12 oz, "Rock River Red Ale" version. Amber with a small lasting head. Nose is gunmetal, caramel, grain, a hint of toasted nut. Flavor is a mild version of the aroma. Light-medium body is to the sweet side and has quite a bit of carbonation.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 ounce bottle from Woodmans West Madison with the Rock River Red label. Pours a clear copper color with a medium sized creamy white head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel malts and earthy notes. The taste is caramel, berries, nutty notes and leafy hops. Medium bodied.
1.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 4/20
12oz bottle from Woodman’s poured into a shaker. Labeled as Rock River Red Ale. Pours a burnt amber color with almost zero head. Aroma is slightly hoppy...herbal if anything. Not much there in the way of malt. Taste is lighlty bitter and medium sweet. Kinda gross. Almost reminds me of a flat Blue Moon. Definitly not what I would call an APA. Medium bodied with a thick, creamy texture. Lively carbonation and not much to speak of by way of finish. There is a very mild hop bitterness at the very tail end of the finish. Overall, this one is pretty gross. Way too sweet for my palate. Gonna give it to my girlfriend to finish because I honestly couldn’t. I have a feeling they used water from the Rock River and forgot to filter it first...
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