3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(12oz bottle) Pours a clear amber body with a small beige head. Aroma of caramel, nuts, citrus, chocolate, and toffee. Flavor of caramel, nuts, bread, citrus, light pine, grain, and cocoa with a dry, moderately bitter finish.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Name: Red October
Date: August 30, 2012
Mode: Draft
Source: The Thirsty Monk, Asheville
Appearance: clear dark amber, fin off white head, bits of lace
Aroma: sweet malty aroma, bready
Flavor: sweet bready flavor, caramel sweetness, light balancing earthyness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft. Large fluffy beige head that leaves lovely lacing, atop clear copper body. Aroma is medium sweet, orange, spicy, some bread/caramel, grapefruit. Taste is moderately sweet, bread, grapefruit/orange. Light-medium body, light acidity, low carbonation, fairly drinkable.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours clear dark and ruddy copper. Slight beige head. Aromas of mild roast malt with citrus and a hint of chocolate. Med body more or less. Flavor is apparently a citrus/pine mix over roast malt. Finishes a bit dusty, and on the mildly bitter, fairly dry side.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Poured clear dark ruby hue with medium frothy white head that lasted with good lacing. Medium aroma of earthy hops and malt. Medium body with a slick texture and soft carbonation. Well balanced flavor of malt and earthy hops with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Good drinkable brew.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A nice reddish copper ale with a nice thin creamy mocha head. In aroma, nice pungent hops with nice caramel malt with rye grains, nice citrus notes, resinous well done. In mouth, smooth grainy malt with nice floral hops, roasty and nice. On tap at New Belgium Hub at DIA, August 7 2012.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draft... Clear, deep, dark, copper ale with a small, creamy, white head. Excellent retention. The nose is bursting-at-the-seams with both caramel and roasted nuts. Full-bodied and creamy with tingly carbonation. The flavor is nicely balanced between caramely, chocolaty malts and floral, citrusy hops. Short, bittersweet finish (more bitter than sweet).
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle poured a clear reddish amber with a lasting creamy amber head. Aromas of carmel, earthiness, pine resin and light grapefruit. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of carmel, earthiness, pine and a hint of grapefruit with a crisp dry lightly bitter lingering earthy finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Pours clear dark amber with a large, frothy light tan head, long retention with good lacing. Aroma is floral, citrus, and earthy hops, light caramel and toast malt, nutty notes, dates and plums. Flavor is malt forward with medium hops and bitterness, light fruity esters and a dry finish. Medium body and carbonation.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottle. clear brick red-tinted cola colored body with a medium-sized tan head of good retention atop a cascading body. bubble gum and pine resin hops with and sharply sweet caramel malt with touches of toasted grain. medium body; syrupy texture; nutty, toasty, husky grains with a lingering bubble gum / tutti-frutti hop flavor. baked sweet bread and amber / resin abound. watery finish late is the weak point.
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