Devils Backbone Reilly’s Red Ale

Brewed by Devils Backbone Brewing Company
Style: Irish Ale
Roseland, Virginia USA

Serve in English pint

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Pizzeria Paradiso, Alexandria tap ($6): Pours a red color with an off-white head. Aroma is hops and caramel malts. This is not a bad beer, but it lacks a lot of that peculiar malt character that I really like in Irish Ales. It is slightly bitter from the hops that make it a wee bit stronger than the Irish versions. It is very sessionable, but nothing to be remembered.

Gold pour with off white head and lace. Rye, caramel malt, and and a decent floral hop aroma. Sweet, sweet malt with a medium floral hop bitter. Llight bodied with good carbonation.

Tap at brewery. Pours clear amber with a medium-small fizzy white head, medium-short retention with light lacing. Aroma is fruity esters, citrus hops, and caramel malt. Flavor is fruity esters with balanced malt and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation, low warmth.

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium to dark red amber color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, berry, moderate hoppy, fruity - berry. Initial flavor is moderate to light light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter, finish flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, berries, caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100806]

Cask gravity at GBBF 2010. It’s sweet strawberry beer. Deep red. Yes, it’s fine, yes a bit of hop. Irish ale? No, don’t think so. Fruit led ESB.

Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 06/08/2010 Some hop aroma. Mid brown red coloured a little rich on the palate and fruity with a hint of bitternes in a nutty and dry malt finish.

Cask@GBBF2010. Deep rubyish amber colour, minor hrad. Aroma is fruity, floral and mild notes of plum as well. Flavour is plum, some fruits, wood as well as herbs. Quite pleasant.

6th August 2010. GBBF.
Clear amber beer. Residual suddy head. Light semi dry palate. A little toffee malt base. A light floral touch. Some repressed orange hop and even a whsiper of banana. Finishes semi dry.

From cask. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a fully gone head. Distinct caramelish and sligh hoppy aroma. Flavour is sweet caramelish and crisp hoppy. Smooth malty and roasted into a slight fruity and bitter finish.

Draft. Minimal off-white head with crystal clear amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, some orange/earthy, light cherry. Taste is moderately sweet, caramel, some orange, light earthy. Light-medium body, undercarbonated.