 Slacks (481), Bolton, Ontario, Canada
Sep 5, 2009 Bottle: Pours dark brown, no head at all. Aroma of brown sugar and caramel with pine. Flavour is heavy on the black tea and quite bitter with pine and floral hops. Lacking in a little sweet balance for my tastes but still an enjoyable brew.
skoisirius (570), Seattle, Washington, USA
Sep 1, 2009 On tap in SF. Everything I love about a well balanced red. Lovely sweet caramel malts drifting off into bittered, but not blowing your face off grapefruity hops. Nice hoppy finish with a touch of light spice. Good stuff!
Collint (452), Sylva, North Carolina, USA
Aug 31, 2009 Bottle, pours a red ale with a decent head. Aroma is citrus hops notes of pine, very bitter. Body is medium, flavor is very hoppy citrus pine. finish is dry and bitter. Very good amber ale because it is so hoppy
williamherbert (461), Syracuse, New York, USA
Aug 30, 2009 Appearance? Wow. Rose-orange. Big puffy head. Impossibly murky and thick. Huge specks of yeast, like a fiber supplement. Insane.
Bitter amber malts in the nose, but with a strong flowery hop. Hint of pine oil. Malts are sharp and bready.
The taste is nicely bitter, bready malt. Some soft yeast. Hops very flowery and estery. Double bitter flavors, but a sweet finish. As it warms, some sweet caramel malts emerge.
Feels a little gritty and grainy, but works with the red part of the beer. It’s a nice amber/IPA hybrid. Goes down very easy but not wimpy.
jesperhammer (260), Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 29, 2009 29-AUG-2009, bottle @Morten.
Nice brownish colour. Red ale? Maybe it is dark here, but it seems more brown than red.
Wonderfull piney, grapefuir nose.
Quite creamy, some malts add to the hops making this a very interesting drink. In my mind this is an IPA, and I like it.
joeneugs (289), Livermore, California, USA
Aug 26, 2009 Looks like an amber ale, smells and tastes like an IPA. Sort of. It pours very dark amber red, and has a very hoppy, fruity aroma. The taste is sweet malty and very hoppy. The hoppiest amber I’ve ever had. It has a slight herbal flavor that sets it apart from the rest as well.
obguthr (986), Poquoson, Virginia, USA
Aug 26, 2009 Caramel and cherry aroma with some obvious pine and wood notes. Opaque ochre pour, full of floaties, thin yellow head, good lacing. Pleasant medium mouthfeel, but tinny when warm. Yeasty pine flavor. The hops are almost exclusively bitter and piney, slightly floral, and devoid of any citrus character. Enjoyable and one of the better ones I have had of the style, and I’ll bet mine wasn’t even a good sample of it.
mansquito (819), Boston/Philadelphia, USA
Aug 26, 2009 Pours a nice looking beige head with a dark amber body with tons of floating sediment in it. The aroma of hops dominates the nose, along with a few citrus notes. Really good amount of hops in the taste of the beer itself (maybe a few too many for this beer though). A little sweet with a nice malty undertone. Having a few of these beers leaves your mouth kind of dry and hopped out, so it is hard to drink a bunch of these which is a problem for me who is the proud owner of a case.
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