Redhook Late Harvest Autumn Ale

clear, light amber color, thin off-white head. slightly bready malts in the nose and the hops I can’t really discern in this one. flavor is a little bit wet paper sack....really an odd beer.

Pours an orange amber color with off-white, bread colored head. Smells of yeast, fall spice and leaves. Tastes crackly in the mouth, wet leaf and caramel malts, clean hops, nice spice finish. I liked this. Definitely gets me in the mood for October.

I wasn’t as impressed with this ale as i have been with others by Redhook. The flavors were a little off but seeing as how i had it in the middle of the summer, im sure it was an old keg.

Rusty amber clear colored body with an off-white, plain head (cola bubbles). Basic grainy nose with light hints of cedar wood and hay, but mostly just cracker scented malts. Flavor is the same – clean, without any glaring defects other than a boring recipe – with basic flavors of cracker malts and faint hay or corn. An ok beer but nothing special.

Bottle. Rich amber color with decent lasting head. Yeasty smell - nothing too fantastic. Very slight bite to it. Somewhat boring on the palate. Slightly bland. Very little flavor to it - reminds me of slightly bitter water.

Rated while drinking: Pours color 2 parts orange and 1 part red, with a chunky, but quickly dissipating, off-white head. Smells pretty standard for a beer... Sniff hard enough and you can smell some sort of sweet malt in there. Everything else seems real subtle. Flavor starts up front with something kind of astringent, but backpedals into more of those sweet malts I smelled. Second sip still yields something that feels and tastes wrong. Says it was bottled 8/6/07 though... Hm. Palate seems too carbonated and watery as well, but for the 5.7%, this slides down real quick. I’ll try another bottle later tonight and see if I still feel the same way.

Darkish transluscent amber pour with a small tan head. Sweet, tart, malt smell that I can’t quite put my finger on. Perhaps a touch of some sort of spice. Taste is quite tart, a touch sweet, and has a decent body. Bitter-sweet tartness, maybe more accurately reflects the taste. Decent enough, but I probably won’t get excited about having it again.

From a twelve ounce bottle purchased at the Western Hills "Krogers" in Cincinnati, Ohio - Pours a coppery liquid with a faint tan head and a very sligghty smoky aroma. Tastewide, it has some sligght carbonization of the malts, but this one doesn’t stand out as an Autumn Alr.