Extra Billys Red Ale

Brewed by Extra Billys Smokehouse and Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Midlothian, Virginia USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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on tap-pours a light tan head with copper color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-roasty. Taste is medium malt-roasty, spice hops. Dry finish. OK carbonation.

Tap. Pours clear amber with an average, creamy white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is average malt (bread, caramel, toasted), average hops (herbal, grassy), and average esters (fruity) with notes of dates, skunk, and sweaty socks. Flavor is average malt (bread, caramel, toasted), average hops (herbal, grassy), and average esters (fruity) with notes of dates, skunk, and sweaty socks. Light body, low warmth and creaminess, medium carbonation with a dry finish.

coppery, rusty hue with small off-white head. very low aroma. decent malty flavor with a mild toastiness. fairly light body with very little hop character.

Reddish brown color, clean and clear with no foam. Toffee and maple flavor. Silky texture, small bite. Really tastes like a desert beer. Makes me wann eat chocolate. Small amount of hops in the finish.

Sampled on draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear brownish red color with a large head. Fair head retention and lacing. Lots of butter in the aroma along with faint tart fruits, light toast and caramel. Taste is nutty with faint grain and tart fruit notes. Thin bodied, slightly watery. Seems like this could be a bit infected. Either way, it’s just not a very good beer.

amber red with very slight off white lacing. Aroma was honey, grain and a little cloying. Flavor was fruit, and a little cough syrup.

Sampler at brewery. Light floral hop notes with pale malts in aroma. Clear amber copper no head. Light pale malt flavor with some honey and grain and touch of tea like floral hop flavor. Not a bad amber.

Date: 07/13/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear light amber, thin fine beige head, touch of lace, light sweet carmel malt aroma, big body, rich malt flavor with lots of chewey carmel and biscuit, touch of sweetness, enough hops to balance it without being hoppy,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4

Shockoe festival Richmond VA-Draft: Caramel aroma. Amber color, no head. Weak taste of metallic cherries. Tinny finish.

Clear copper body with off-white head. Aroma is mild, medium sweet, faint caramel. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, some peach, light roast, faint chocolate. Light-medium body.