Red Racer Super Sonic IPA
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.92 | pDev: 5.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 22, 2019
- Added:
- Nov 19, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
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Reviewed by Hat_Fulla_Beer from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev +1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Day 14 of the 2015 Craft Crossing calendar from Central City and Parallel 49. 330ml bottle poured into tulip glass.
Pours a rich copper with a one finger head that leaves rugged Scottish cliffside lace as it recedes.
Smells pretty much like Red Racer, maybe with more grapefruit. Green pine, citrus and malt.
Tastes of bitter oranges, sunny exotic fruit, pine resin and dinner biscuit caramel malt.
Medium bodied with lively carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Overall, it seems to be more fruity and refreshing than the highly respected Red Racer IPA. Recommended.
Dec 22, 2015Pours a rich copper with a one finger head that leaves rugged Scottish cliffside lace as it recedes.
Smells pretty much like Red Racer, maybe with more grapefruit. Green pine, citrus and malt.
Tastes of bitter oranges, sunny exotic fruit, pine resin and dinner biscuit caramel malt.
Medium bodied with lively carbonation. Finishes dry.
Verdict: Overall, it seems to be more fruity and refreshing than the highly respected Red Racer IPA. Recommended.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
330ml bottle, day 14 of the 2015 Craft Crossing Calendar, a 'collaborative' effort once again between Parallel 49 and Central City brewing. So glad that Craft Beer Market was out of this when I unadvisedly went there last month.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two hefty fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and generally bubbly ecru head, which leaves some hovering invading alien spaceship lace around the glass as it gently sinks away.
It smells of dank pine resin, pithy orange flesh, biscuity caramel malt, some hard water flintiness, and a further musky tropical fruitiness. The taste is bready, biscuity caramel malt, dry toffee, edgy orange and lemon citrus, wet stoney notes, and some equally pungent herbal, leafy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in both its perky and structural frothiness, the body a sturdy middleweight, and sort of smooth, the various hop bitters kind of tripping all over the tulips here, as it were. It finishes trending dry, the malt faltering, and the fruitiness of the hops having mostly bled out.
Overall, a fairly good IPA, the hops definitely running the show, but I'd need to have one of these right next to a Red Racer IPA to really ascertain its place among this brewery's best offerings in the style. That said, I'm still glad that I saved myself 10 bucks by getting this one, this way.
Dec 14, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two hefty fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and generally bubbly ecru head, which leaves some hovering invading alien spaceship lace around the glass as it gently sinks away.
It smells of dank pine resin, pithy orange flesh, biscuity caramel malt, some hard water flintiness, and a further musky tropical fruitiness. The taste is bready, biscuity caramel malt, dry toffee, edgy orange and lemon citrus, wet stoney notes, and some equally pungent herbal, leafy, and piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite active in both its perky and structural frothiness, the body a sturdy middleweight, and sort of smooth, the various hop bitters kind of tripping all over the tulips here, as it were. It finishes trending dry, the malt faltering, and the fruitiness of the hops having mostly bled out.
Overall, a fairly good IPA, the hops definitely running the show, but I'd need to have one of these right next to a Red Racer IPA to really ascertain its place among this brewery's best offerings in the style. That said, I'm still glad that I saved myself 10 bucks by getting this one, this way.
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