Switchback Roasted Red

Deep amber pour, off-white head. Greenish vegetal hops bathe in diacetyl, caramelly malts and butter. It quickly grows overwhelming, sticky to the roof of the palate and leaving bready malts lasting aftertaste that fatigues. Light bodied, sparse carbonation.

Caramel, butterscotch, toffee aroma. Clear amber brown body with a low off white head that recedes rapidly to ring. Cola like sweetness to the flavour but also plenty of caramel and butterscotch and some notes of chocolate. Medium body with somewhat low carbonation. Sampled on tap at American Flatbread with beerbuzzmontreal, MartinT, muzzlehatch, Rastacouere and Yowie.

Pours a clear amber color with no head. The aroma is overly sweet, cloying, on the verge of disgusting. The flavor isn’t better with it’s cloying sweet malt, eeech. The palate is light and oily. Not good at all.

The Lure:
Lazy cranberries inebriated by the butterscotch and caramel sweetness. Diacetyl levels are a little too high for my liking, and they sure don’t appreciate the peeking ethanol. Don’t get me wrong, nothing’s frightening, but worries are born.

The Festivities:
Black grape and berry fruitiness link the sweet cereal. Butterscotch is too intense for drinkability in my opinion, and there aren’t enough adjacent flavors to keep me interested.

Transcendence:
Slouching on the couch, watching inane television.

Sample at American Flatbread (Burlington) in the company of MartinT, tiggmtl, Rastacouere, beerbuzzmontreal and Yowie. Dark amber with a trace of head...nose of sweet cherry, fair amount of caramel maltiness, pretty simple and light...mild, fruity sweet flavor, tart apple skins and a bit of smokiness...tingly, full mouthfeel, slight finishing bitterness. Just a bit better than the first beer from this brewery, perfectly tolerable; can’t say I’m really holding my breath for what he does next.