Huske Hardware Regimental Ale

Formerly brewed at Huske Hardware House
Style: Brown Ale
Fayetteville, North Carolina USA

Serve in Dimpled mug

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Faint caramel malt aroma. Nut sweetish and a bit chemical, low acidity, light hops. Finish is slightly tangy with a medium-quick woody finish. Watery. Scotch coloring, lacy head.

Name: Regimental Red
Date: 12/18/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear anber, fine beige head, nice lace, light bitter malt aroma, so this is where the DMS was coming from when the sampler was set down, lots of bitter hop flavor on a dry caramel malt base

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 4/20
Rating: 1.7/5.0
Drinkability: 1/10
Score: 4

UPDATED: MAR 31, 2007 Draught. So, I get the sampler and I just want to taste maybe three of them before my palate would give out. Just by having a whiff, they are almost identical in smell. This one in particular has a sour, lactic stink with a bit of caramel. Y’know come to think of it, the brewery itself smelled funny when I entered. Man, upon tasting this brew, I decided something is very amiss. There is mild chocolate in the thin, slimy mouth, but mostly a sour algae flavor. This is not good at all.

Draft at Charlotte Oktoberfest 2006. Nothing really special going on here. Reddish colored pour without any head at all. Smell is some sweet malts and a little bit of a hop presence. Taste is bland and unexciting. As previous raters have suggested, this beer (brewery?) needs a serious revamp. This is no exception to that rule.

Another not so great brew from the brewery. Also another miss leading name. Regimental Red, one would assume it would be an amber and not a brown ale. Either way a less than exciting brew.

on tap-pours an offwhite head with dark copper color. Aroma is malt. Taste is dark malt, smokey, coffee backdrop. OK, but not my taste.

Large draught sample at the brewpub. Buttery, lightly herbal/medicinal nose escapes faintly from the translucent, clearly (no pun intended) unfiltered thick dark amber body with a lasting touch of head....body is sour, somewhat astringent and increasingly mineralic as it warms, cidery, with light carbonation, some dry woody hops towards the finish don’t really save it.

UPDATED: MAY 28, 2006 Draught at the brewpub. Clear copper color with thin white head. Subtle caramel aroma with some metallic hops. Spicy and bitter, slightly sour with dried cherry undertones. Sour finish.

Sampled at Charlotte Oktoberfest ’04. There really wasn’t enough hop in the flavor here - it had a sour feel but otherwise it was pretty watery. Needs work.