Red Racer Barrel Aged IPA
Central City Brewers + Distillers
- From:
- Central City Brewers + Distillers
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.8 | pDev: 6.05%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 26, 2017
- Added:
- Nov 21, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by polloenfuego from Canada (NB)
3.52/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Um. No.
Dec 26, 2017
Rated by booby_hill from Canada (AB)
3.65/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.65/5 rDev -3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
I love it, but it felt a little light on the IPA side.
Dec 24, 2017
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle, day 23 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. Barrel-aged IPA? I thought this was discounted as a good idea years ago.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of acrid Bourbon wood, dry vanilla, gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, and some testy leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, vanilla and rye-heavy barrel staves, still muffled citrus peel, and more zingy leafy, grassy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its basic form frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, with the wood tamping down on any typical hop acridity here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, fruitiness, and barrel sweetness in an awkward as shit lingering tango.
Overall - hey, I like BBA brews, and I love big hoppy IPAS, but there are certain things that, while outstanding on their own, should bloody well stay that way. There's nothing overtly wrong with this admittedly well-made offering, but that's not the point - which is that so much is lost in mixing these two worlds, there are no 'sum is greater than the whole of the parts' gains. Not my thing, sorrynotsorry to say.
Dec 23, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random streaky and sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of acrid Bourbon wood, dry vanilla, gritty and grainy caramel malt, muddled domestic citrus rind, and some testy leafy, weedy, and piney green hop bitters. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, vanilla and rye-heavy barrel staves, still muffled citrus peel, and more zingy leafy, grassy, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly laid-back in its basic form frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and more or less smooth, with the wood tamping down on any typical hop acridity here. It finishes off-dry, the malt, fruitiness, and barrel sweetness in an awkward as shit lingering tango.
Overall - hey, I like BBA brews, and I love big hoppy IPAS, but there are certain things that, while outstanding on their own, should bloody well stay that way. There's nothing overtly wrong with this admittedly well-made offering, but that's not the point - which is that so much is lost in mixing these two worlds, there are no 'sum is greater than the whole of the parts' gains. Not my thing, sorrynotsorry to say.
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