Laurelwood Organic Free Range Red

Brewed by Laurelwood Public House & Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

This is a damn near perfect red ale! perfct red in color with no haze or floats. Sweet, slight cherry aroma with some lightly toasted malt. Slight cherry and caramel flavor, balanced nicely by crisp, tart hops. Finishes with some residual sugar. This beer is great!

On tap at Pilsener Room and also Laurelwood, Portland. My favourite beer of my 2 week travels of the PNW. I came here with no love of amber ales, and this not only changed my mind, but completely won me over. Copper/amber with lasting beige head. Lovely hop. Good creamy feel in mouth with malts. Nice hop finish. Makes you want to drink more. It was so good, I bought the T shirt. I drank more of this than anything else I tried.

On tap at Laurelwood Publick House in Portland, OR. 5 ounce sample. Some piney/grapefruity hops present in the nose initially. Light toasted malts are also present. Pretty hoppy with cascades dominating. Some scant sweetness present in the aroma as well. Dark copper/light amberish transparent body with frothy off-white head and nice lacing. Very attractive. Piney/hempy hop flavors immediately hit the tongue, but not destroyingly bitter. Backed up by lots of sweet, caramelly malt goodiness. Small hempy hops come in at the end, producing a light bitter finish. Well done!

22oz bottle. Pours a clear ruby red with a nice off white head. Aroma is huge citrusy cascade hops, lightly roasted caramel malt. Flavor is much the same, citrusy, sprucey cascade hops up front, balanced with a very nice bready, caramel, nutty maltiness and finishes with a medium sprucey bitterness of the cascade hops. Very nice beer and I don’t really care for red ales, but the nice hopping is what really makes this a great easy drinking beer.

Another quality beer from Laurelwood. Bottle from John’s Market poured a beautiful red color with a nice white head. Good lacing. A little hoppy for an amber. More like a I.R.A. Still, a well balanced beer.

On Tap Brewery - A deep reddish brown color with a a decent head. A deep malt flavor with a good amoutn of hops. This was a great flavor and a great beer. Oraganic this was a great beer and I will drink again and again.

Laurelwood’s flagship beer. 100% Organic. 60 IBUs. heavy aroma of Cascade hops. ruby red color. nice smooth bitterness. medium bodied with outstanding aroma & flavor.

On tap at Brewpub. Nice head on top of light amber colored beer. Beautiful aroma. Full of citrus (grapefruit, lime, lemon) and flowers (honeysuckle). First taste is all hops. Kind of "green" tasting, perhaps from the amount of hops in this beer. After initial hops comes nice caramel sweetness, then right back to that green hop flavor. Taste to me what I would imagine chlorophyll to taste like. Nice beer, not as bitter as I would have thought (the chalkboard at the pub said 60 IBU’s). Balanced flavors, tasted a little too new.