UPDATED: JAN 1, 2019 Bottle shared at NYE, several years old. Hazy reddish brown colour. Frothy beige head. Aroma's: hoppy, caramel, slight oxidation. Retronasal: toasted bread, sweetish, roasted, bitterish, light oxidation. Flavour is moderate bitter and light sweet. Medium bodied. Quite bitter finish. Pretty good, despite the age.

Tap at Mikkeller Bangkok. Poured a hazy dark reddish colour almost brown with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is caramel malt, piney citrus woody hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a crisp, bready malt, fruity, dry woody floral hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium bodied with average to soft carbonation.

Bottle. Pours murky amber-red with small foamy beige head, faint caramel aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter caramel malt taste with floral hops, thin body, long finish. Quite flavorful and tasty.

Bottle. Good example of what a red ale can be, Basically a Red IPA. Dep reddish amber hue. Deep malty backbone with roasted chestnut and caramel malts. Plenty of hoppy bite in the finish, Decent session beer - even at 6.6 ABV,

UPDATED: OCT 18, 2018 From backlog. Bottle shared with Bergstaden in Vista, ca. Reddis/brown with beige head. Malts, hops, pine, Citrus. Nice.

UPDATED: APR 16, 2018 Bomber from Bottle Jockey in Burnaby. A dark reddish amber beer with generous golden head. Slightly hop forward here with citrus and resinous notes. Plenty of caramel malt in the background. 3.7

DATE: January 14, 2018... OCCASION: coming down after a thrillingly improbable finish to the Vikings/Saints game... GLASSWARE: Hop Devil nonick... pours a dark ruby red body, murky and foreboding--too dense to see through... the thick, creamy off-white head sits like a velvet cake frosting, and it laces like a stormy sky, and plateaus as a two-finger mesa--attractive! Immediate resin, spruce, and earthy malts leave the best impression; secondary scents of toasted malts that suggest soon-to-be-born bread, a little yeast funk, and some vegetable... traces of citric aroma, but not as much as expected... a creamy, frothy, breathy ale that is smooth, soft and extremely drinkable--nothing dead here, though a bit of butter accompanies the finish... a lingering, pleasant experience.... the flavor is resin, mango, peach, and light pine... the caramel promised is secondary, with the sweetness blunted by vegetable and toasted bread malts... I like the overall experience, with its creamy comfortably encouraging the next sip, and each sip lacking a bite at a middle-of-the-road ABV... ultimately, a beer that probably pairs with Autumn well; here in January, it stands well but not out--other ambers have been maltier, sweeter, hoppier.... this does enough to be in the second tier of that conversation...

Nice cider/ruby color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of toasted caramel malt, pine hops, & fruit/citrus; Flavor of slight roasted sweet malt, caramel, spicy hops, fruit, and some nuts; Finish is dry & slightly bitter; Nicely balanced; Good.

Uzupełnienie profilu notatki. Piana obfita trwała, zdobi szkło. Kolor czerwony mętny. Aromat niesamowicie intensywne owoce, truskawki, poziomki karmel. Amerykanski chmiel w formie zanikającej jak w idealnym ABW. Smak bogaty, złożony, są owoce, poziomki, truskawki, lekka żywiczność, cukierki owocowe i lekka słodycz, karmel. Chmielenie wyraźne przez leżakowanie już w zaniku, goryczka wysoka nie dominuje. Całość dawała by efekt wyśmienitego ABW gdyby nie to ze piwo sprawia wrażenie rozcieńczonego, ewidentnie brakuje to więcej ciała i mocy, nie to ze jej tu nie ma, ale intensywne smaki nie grają z lekkim pijalnym charakterem. Jako RED ALE jest to najlepsze piwo z tego stylu jakie do tej pory piłem i należy mu się czerwone WOW.

Strong toasted wood and molasses aromas along with equally strong hoppy notes from a crystal clear dark amber body with a reddish tinge. The taste is immediately sweet toffee and dark caramel quickly followed by a rush of green grassy and pine hop bitterness that balance each other and also fight each other for dominance. In the end, they do reach an equilibrium and settle to a woody aftertaste with a lingering bittersweet chocolate note. This tastes like a bigger beer than it is and it's one delicious monster. Happy Halloween!