Red Racer Darkest Night
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Schwarzbier
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.47 | pDev: 4.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 26, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 21, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.3/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.3/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
330ml bottle, day 17 of 'The Great White Wonder Adventure Pack', a collaboration between Central City and Parallel 49 to provide a Beer Advent (I can say that, even if they can't) holiday experience. A so-called 'light' dark lager, paradoxically.
This beer pours a rather dark, amber highlighted brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves a few instances of hanging old-school Space Invader lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of lightly roasted, bready and grainy pale malt, faint bittersweet cocoa powder, a bit of musty yeastiness, and some plain earthy, weedy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some phenolic free-range ashiness, ethereal black stone fruit esters, stale dollar store chocolate, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musty noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, as a not so subtle pithiness worms its way in shortly after takeoff here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, fading cocoa, and yeast all lazily lingering, as such.
Overall - yeah, I'm not exactly enamoured with this one, not with the wan je ne sais quoi 'character' of it all. Sure, it's lighter than expected, but that's not what stands out to me - it's more of the boring, dial it in flavour profile, than anything. Pass.
Dec 17, 2017This beer pours a rather dark, amber highlighted brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and yet somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves a few instances of hanging old-school Space Invader lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of lightly roasted, bready and grainy pale malt, faint bittersweet cocoa powder, a bit of musty yeastiness, and some plain earthy, weedy, and dead floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, some phenolic free-range ashiness, ethereal black stone fruit esters, stale dollar store chocolate, and more understated leafy, weedy, and musty noble hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its workaday frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and sort of smooth, as a not so subtle pithiness worms its way in shortly after takeoff here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, fading cocoa, and yeast all lazily lingering, as such.
Overall - yeah, I'm not exactly enamoured with this one, not with the wan je ne sais quoi 'character' of it all. Sure, it's lighter than expected, but that's not what stands out to me - it's more of the boring, dial it in flavour profile, than anything. Pass.
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