Red Racer Black Lager
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Schwarzbier
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 1.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- May 02, 2018
- Added:
- May 10, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.45/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.45/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
355ml can - wow, I would have thought that I had this one in one of those 'Season's Greetings' boxes over the years. Guess not.
This beer pours a clear (I imagine), very dark, amber-highlighted brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of lightly roasted, bready and grainy caramel malt, kind of musty molasses, pithy bar-top nuts, and some weak earthy, herbal, and musky floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-range damp ashiness, reduced brown sugar syrup, an oily nuttiness, cheap cocoa powder, a minor muddled spice essence, and more tame weedy, herbal, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly meek in its barely-there frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and not particularly smooth, as the pithy and smokey notes make that a difficult thing to attain here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and dark sugar character presiding.
Overall - I suppose one could say that this is an average version of the style, and they'd be correct. It's got some oomph to it, but it doesn't really come across as something that I would want another serving of, sad to say.
May 02, 2018This beer pours a clear (I imagine), very dark, amber-highlighted brown colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves a few instances of remote islet lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of lightly roasted, bready and grainy caramel malt, kind of musty molasses, pithy bar-top nuts, and some weak earthy, herbal, and musky floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some free-range damp ashiness, reduced brown sugar syrup, an oily nuttiness, cheap cocoa powder, a minor muddled spice essence, and more tame weedy, herbal, and floral green hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly meek in its barely-there frothiness, the body an adequate medium weight, and not particularly smooth, as the pithy and smokey notes make that a difficult thing to attain here. It finishes off-dry, the malt and dark sugar character presiding.
Overall - I suppose one could say that this is an average version of the style, and they'd be correct. It's got some oomph to it, but it doesn't really come across as something that I would want another serving of, sad to say.
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