Dunedin Red Head Red Ale

Brewed by Dunedin Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Dunedin, Florida USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Appearance: light brown with garnet and ruby highlights. Off-white head is thicker along the edges while her middle lingers as a thin puddle.
Nose: apples (skins especially), cinnamon, hint of sweet smoke, rye, and whole wheat breads. Mulled and spiced apples flitter to and fro.
Palate: softer and creamier than expected. Apples and cinnamon with the bounteous apple juice goodness in the middle and the skins in the back for a pleasing bitter finish. Gentle smoke whispers on by. Cinnamon in the breath along with a dry toasted bread crust crunch.
Final Thoughts: not the most complex red ale I have tasted, but good nonetheless. Straightforward and to the point, what she does she does well.

Draft @ Brewpub: Cloudy mahogany color. Nose of light hops and a thin veiled caramel maltiness. Light finish and lacking in that chewy melanoidin note you expect a red ale to have. Oh, and not to mention hop flavor and body.

Dark brown-red, tan foam. Caramel apple aroma, heavy malt. Caramel fruit taste, tinny.

Aroma has some roasted malts, light bitterness and some earthy mossy undertones. Flavor has roasted malts and some sweetness and earthy hops and grain. Mild overall.

bottle. pours a brilliant red with a bubbly white head which fades quickly... light malt nose with a hint of cherry. sweet medium body with light fruit, light bitterness, nuts and bread notes. sweet, somewhat harsh finish with some bitterness on the back end.

Draft. Deep copper color with a white head. Malty nose with some nuttiness. Taste is light roasted nuts and malts.

On tap, at brewery, RBWG 2010. Pours a mostly clear amber body with a small fizzy off-white head. The nose is light caramel and toasty malt with a minimal note of hops. The flavor is slightly sweet caramel and toasty malt with a little bit of a husky earthiness on the finish. Just a light hint of hops. Lighter bodied with a touch of graininess and soft carbonation. Pretty forgettable Amber, but then again, most are.

12oz bottle from a BA trade - thanks, Stephen! Fairly vibrant pour, with a creamy head and a bright body. Soft grassy hops are detectable in the nose, thank goodness, because otherwise there’s not much to it. Somewhat thick mouthfeel seems to work well, and again there’s a bit of a hop bite to give some life to the fairly standard malt profile. Not bad.

Tap at Dunedin at RBWG 2010 bus tour. Pours a medium amber - clear with a decent head. Aroma is caramel, nuts, toast, but has solvent and chlorine- like they didn’t rinse the lines, or glass or something got into the beer? Flavor is light chemical, caramel malts, toffee, old earth hops, earth, flory and light sweetness- something was off in this one though.

see through red, creamy looking head, smells bready and kind of metallic, tastes tart, biscuity, kind of hoppy and metallic. eh.