 Beerlando (1458), Orlando, Florida, USA
Oct 10, 2008
Draft at Redlight Redlight. Weird beer. This one pours a very lightly hazy blood red color, capped with a foamy, strawberry milkshake colored head. The foam settles quickly to a wispy film, leaving delicate sheet-like lacing in its wake. The aroma shows heavy, sweet notes of caramel malt and glazed biscuit, followed by dry grains, piney hops, and hints of citrus. The flavor is sugary sweet, showing way too heavy on caramel, along with astringent pine hops that burn the back of the throat. The medium-plus, sticky body starts out mildly annoying and ends up downright cloying. This is an odd one. Drinkable, but not very good.
kwoeltje (1230), Manchester, Missouri, USA
Nov 30, 2008 (large bottle) bright red with pink head. Faint malt aroma. Flavor is slightly sweet malt, but a medicine aftertaste.
Suttree (2404), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Nov 29, 2008 Well, it’s certainly eye-catching. Pours blood red, with a pinkish head. And the label is just good, old fashioned nightmare fuel. Actually, every other aspect is fairly normal or an octoberfest,, but it does look weird.
glennmastrange (462), hobe sound, Florida, USA
Nov 29, 2008 Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of caramel and the crust of fresh bred, light to moderate note of herbs for the hops, light dough for the yeast and background notes of solvent and raspberry. Head is frothy pink with good lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is hazy cherry red. Flavor starts lightly sweet, moderately acidic and sour, then finishes sour again, heavily and enduring bitter. Palate is light to medium, dry with a carbonation between lively and fizzy. It finishes moderately astringent, lightly alcoholic and fairly dry. This is a goof of a beer. It tasted more like an ESB or a Bitter than a Marzen. The aroma was okay, but every other aspect of it "freaked" me out.
Tmoney99 (3740), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Nov 29, 2008 Bottle from Crown #19.
Poured hazyr red color with an average frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing.
Moderate fruity citrus aroma.
Medium body with a soft carbonation.
Medium sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration.
My expectations where met with a very interesting beer.
Kinz (1931), Glen Allen, Virginia, USA
Nov 26, 2008 This was an odd duck. Pours a muddy red, with a pink head. Must have been some of the worst chill haze I’ve ever seen, because it totally cleared when it warmed. Aroma was sweet malt and earthy, slightly floral hops. Taste matched, with a surprisingly bitter, slightly strange, very drying finish. Some fruity esters floating about, undefined, but there as well, as if it was fermented a bit too warm. Not bad, just very odd, appearance aside.
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