Redneck Riviera Red
Voodoo Brewing Company

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From:
Voodoo Brewing Company
 
Pennsylvania, United States
Style:
American Amber / Red Ale
ABV:
8.2%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.63 | pDev: 14.05%
Reviews:
6
Ratings:
22
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 21, 2018
Added:
Mar 27, 2013
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Rated: 3.79 by Scottsbeer from Florida

Aug 21, 2018
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Reviewed by puck1225 from Texas

3.77/5  rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Had it on draft at the brewery in Meadville. Poured into a snifter.

Deep reddish brown with good head and lacing. Malty smell and pronounced malt taste. Caramel. Ones but very dry taste. Earthy and multiple hop types bitterness. A good red ale but not amongst the best.
Jul 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.75 by sposter4 from Pennsylvania

Jul 21, 2017
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.25/5  rDev +17.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap at Voodoo Brewery in Meadville, PA.

This one pours a mostly clear golden red color, with a small white head, and lots of sticky lacing.

This smells like the sort of herbal and bitter hops that go so well in a recipe for a hoppy red. It's juicy, but not overly so- seems to rely on bitter rind flavors to go with the dark baked bread, chocolate, and toffee from the red ale.

This tastes pretty great. Hoppy red ales are underrated, and this strikes a nice balance between the malty goodness of the base beer, and the nice hop job up front. The hops are bitter, earthy, piney and tasty, with a hint of grapefruit and other citrus. There's a nice bready and toasty malt backbone here. This is definitely up there with the best hoppy reds.

This is light bodied, but still full enough to not be thin, with a good level of carbonation.

This was highly enjoyable.
Jul 17, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by ramrod666 from Pennsylvania

May 01, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by greg4579 from Pennsylvania

Mar 12, 2014
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Reviewed by Darkmagus82 from Texas

3.39/5  rDev -6.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Served on firkin in a pint glass

Appearance – The beer is served a copper color with a bit of haze and a tiny head of cream color. The head fades super-fast leaving a lighter level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.

Smell – The aroma is biggest of a roasted malt smell mixed with a moderately strong caramel and toffee aroma. Along with these smells are lighter fruit aromas with a decent showing of some herbal, citrus, and lighter hints of a more floral hop nature.

Taste – The taste begins with a lightly toasted malt flavor mixed with a decent amount of a caramel sweetness. At the front there is a moderately strong citrus grapefruit hop flavor that grows slightly more intense as the flavor advances. Along with the citrus hop, some other herbal and earthy hop flavors come to the tongue as well, giving it a slightly more bitter flavor overall. While the hop brings a bitterness, there is always the sweet and malt to balance it out. While it starts out predominantly with a caramel sweetness other sweet flavors of lighter fruit nature of apple and a bit of plum comes to the tongue. With an oncoming of more earthy hops right at the end of the taste, one is left with a moderately hopped somewhat biting amber ale taste to linger on the tongue.

Mouthfeel – The body of the beer was on the averages side in terms of thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that was rather low (as may be expected for a firkin). The lower carbonation was nice for the malty and moderately hopped flavors of the brew, while a slightly thicker body would have likely been a bit more accentuating of these flavors. Overall the feel was just OK.

Overall – A decent Imperial red, but nothing out of this world. Well worth trying if you get a chance but not something to go out of your way for.
Feb 23, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by HoppyBastard1 from Pennsylvania

Feb 15, 2014
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Reviewed by adamette from Ohio

3.55/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Review from notes. Consumed on “Barrel Release Day” March 23, 2013. I waited in line for hours for the privilege to purchase one of the first cases of the bottle release. Before being called up to purchase my case I enjoyed several of these beers on tap. I took specific notes for each of them and I will finally upload their reviews here on my beeradvocate account. Poured into a clean, clear glass pint.

A Medium brown head over an amber body. 3.5

S Distant Simcoe Hops, mild to moderate barley malt. Solid amber smell. 3.5

T Surprised to notice the alcohol in this one. That typical “amber” barley taste and mild to moderate hops presence. This is a solid amber. 3.5

M Moderate mouthfeel, typical of the style really. 3.0

D/O Drinkability is high, Overall this is a good beer. 4.0
Oct 11, 2013
 
Rated: 3.5 by KJ2013 from Pennsylvania

Oct 04, 2013
 
Rated: 3.5 by Holmes698 from Pennsylvania

Jun 13, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by tommyguz from Pennsylvania

May 11, 2013
 
Rated: 3.5 by lpotter from Pennsylvania

May 06, 2013
 
Rated: 2 by jmann40 from Pennsylvania

Apr 28, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by BARFLYB from Pennsylvania

Apr 28, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by rolltide8425 from Pennsylvania

Apr 27, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by ejimhof from Pennsylvania

Apr 21, 2013
 
Rated: 4.5 by jpatton0127 from Pennsylvania

Apr 14, 2013
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Reviewed by stakem from Pennsylvania

4.03/5  rDev +11%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Draft offering at Voodoo served in a shaped pint glass on the evening before the barrel room collection release. The brew appears a hop hazed color of burnt copper. A yellowish stained khaki head holds with a finger strength and displays solid retaining powers. Frothy patches of lace stick to the glass.

The aromatics are all about the hops. Herbal to rindy with an earthen dank and even a fruity appeal. The simcoe is felt with its dank to nearly catty quality before blending back into a fruity rind character that seems to come from a combination of both hops and slight alcohol feel.

The flavor is also focused pretty much exclusively on the hops. A bitterness hits the palate with rindy fruit flavors like orange peel/grapefruit pithy and pulpy bitterness. A strong flavor of simcoe is caught between dank and slightly pissy like cat box. The aftertaste includes the first indication of malt with a toffee sweetness that blends into a sort of neutral grain quality.

This is a medium bodied brew with a modest amount of carbonation. The alcohol is well integrated in this. Fans of simcoe hops will want to seek this out. I am not the biggest dan of simcoe but I finished my glass with no issue and considered having another. I would drink this again.
Apr 11, 2013
 
Rated: 4 by outoffocus from Pennsylvania

Apr 06, 2013
Redneck Riviera Red from Voodoo Brewing Company
Beer rating: 84 out of 100 with 22 ratings