Lake of Bays Spark House Red

Brewed by Lake of Bays Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Baysville, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Dark reddish brown color with no head. Aroma of caramel, bread, and hops. Caramel, fruit, and bread flavors with a sharp hop bite at the end. Nice beer!

bottle. Poured deep red almost brown with a thin tan head. Caramel malt nose, a touch of alcohol. Medium body, creamy carbonation, tart dry finish. Fruity malt flavour with a roasted note, coppery metallic character.

6-pack from the LCBO. Pours a clean copper colour with a big frothy light-beige head that lasts a while gives out a few bubbly lace. Great fruity roasted malt nose with some coffee at first, and a little nutty. Decent fruity malt taste with a little of the nuts and mild hop bittering things a bit. This is quite a nice red ale. One of the better ones I have had for this style.

bottle. Nice cherry colour but no head to speak of. Aroma is biscuity and caramel malts, some fruits/berries as well. Taste is standard, smooth and malty. Good and drinkable.

on tap at the ship in hamilton. standard amber ale. copper with persistent fine foam. easily drinkable.

Renamed Spark House Red Ale - Pours dark red-brown with thin beige head. Aromas of fruit, nuts, chocolate, caramel with a little grassy hops. Medium body with light carbonation. Slightly hoppier in the taste than on the nose, especially toward the finish.

Lake Of Bay’s:Spark House Red Ale 5% Read and carbinaded with some head. Smell is like cherry and chocolate. Taste is the same with some barley and a little hop tingle but the taste show up better and more as I drink it. Nice offering.cheers

Sampled at the brewery. Ruby and pale amber with a frothy and creamy head. Nutty, malts, grains, doughy, moderate carbonation, butterscotch, mild body, becomes somewhat dry, sweetish.

August 27, 2011 - on draught at The 2011 Golden Tap Awards @ BeerBistro. Why do I bother? Fairly deep ruby-amber with a fast-diminishing frothy off-white head. Smells like sugary paper with weeds and a little medicinal fruit flavouring. Taste is the same, just not as sweet, more harsh floral bitterness. Still and watery body and mouthfeel, unpleasant aftertaste and essentially no carbonation - not good.

Pours very clear and clearly red from bottle. Aroma is good with some yeasty bready notes. Taste was a bit lacking and thin in character - almost seemed a touch watery.