Red Racer Radler
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 3.5%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 13.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 05, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 16, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
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Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.61/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
For the style, it isn't bad--pulls back on the sweetness of a typical radler quite a bit, and seems to use honest-to-god grapefruit juice, lending this one a tart, pulpy, pithy smell and taste. A bit of citrus (lemon?) in the back-end, too, some light malt/cracker base, and--are those hops? In a *radler*? Well, I'm not certain, but maybe. *Maybe*.
It's not my favourite radler, but it might well be the most beer-like radler I've encountered.
Jun 07, 2016It's not my favourite radler, but it might well be the most beer-like radler I've encountered.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +9.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
473ml can - an appropriate offering for a span of days in mid-April that feel more like the heart of summer around here! And there's Betty on the label, in all her summertime finery!
This beer pours a murky, medium banana-yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather fizzy off-white head, which leaves zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of somewhat forgotten in the back of the refrigerator orange and red grapefruit juice, a subtle gritty graininess, and maybe a touch of leafy and floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and lightly bready pale malt, a bit of lager yeast, muddled grapefruit, orange, and lemon citrus pith, a weird sense of free-range berry sugar, and some ethereal verdant hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite active in their playfully palate-tingling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a wee citrus juice tanginess taking the sheen off of things here. It finishes off-dry, much in the manner of bland grapefruit juice, if you ever took the time to analyze that sort of thing.
Overall, there's not much here to differentiate this one from other craft brewers' versions of the style - Parallel 49's Tricycle coming readily to mind. Pulpy grapefruit, and a few of its citrus family kin, is all there really is here, even if it's rendered well enough. It would be interesting to come full circle and make a Screwdriver with this, eh?
Apr 18, 2016This beer pours a murky, medium banana-yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and rather fizzy off-white head, which leaves zilch in the way of lace anywhere near the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of somewhat forgotten in the back of the refrigerator orange and red grapefruit juice, a subtle gritty graininess, and maybe a touch of leafy and floral hop bitters. The taste is grainy and lightly bready pale malt, a bit of lager yeast, muddled grapefruit, orange, and lemon citrus pith, a weird sense of free-range berry sugar, and some ethereal verdant hoppiness.
The bubbles are quite active in their playfully palate-tingling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a wee citrus juice tanginess taking the sheen off of things here. It finishes off-dry, much in the manner of bland grapefruit juice, if you ever took the time to analyze that sort of thing.
Overall, there's not much here to differentiate this one from other craft brewers' versions of the style - Parallel 49's Tricycle coming readily to mind. Pulpy grapefruit, and a few of its citrus family kin, is all there really is here, even if it's rendered well enough. It would be interesting to come full circle and make a Screwdriver with this, eh?
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