Sixth Anniversary Imperial Red
Freetail Brewing Company
- From:
- Freetail Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Red Ale
- ABV:
- 6.6%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 10.58%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 16, 2019
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
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Reviewed by jngrizzaffi from Texas
3.97/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
3.97/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
Pours a cloudy red color with a thick foamy head. Retention and lacing are both excellent. Strong malty taste with big earthy undertones. Big earthy, malty taste with a mild piney resin at the end. Not too strong. Not too weak. Has a little bit of a smooth, creamy element to it. Medium to heavy bodied with moderate carbonation. There is some astringency on the palate. Good beer but nothing special.
Apr 07, 2016
Reviewed by AlCaponeJunior from Texas
4.18/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.25
4.18/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.25
Quite an amazing addition to Freetail's already great lineup!
This one says "hoppy" on the bottle, but let's not get all crazy now and try to call it an IPA. I'm sorry guys, but everything's not just "some kind of IPA." This is (IMO) very much an American Amber ale, and has the bonus of being generously, but appropriately hopped.
Nice looking red, mostly clear, inviting to the eye, decent head.
Aroma is a bit more subdued than you'd think given the taste, but still contains a great blend of malty and hoppy aromas. This beer is unleashed in the taste department though, with its great blend of wonderfully flavorful malts being the appetizer, main course, and dessert of the beer.
Hops could hardly have been chosen any more perfectly for this brew. They offer a compliment, even an enhancement to the already great malt backbone, but don't come way over the top in a misguided effort to IPA-ize a beer that wasn't meant to pander to the hop-heads who don't have any taste buds left from drinking too much hop extract concentrate.
Body is great. You practically have to chew it after every sip. And despite the noble efforts to not turn this into just another IPA, it's even a little resiny on the finish.
With Freetail's new place on the grocery and liquor store shelves, and the increasing availability of local beer (always a good thing), I predict great things ahead for both them, and my taste buds. And since I do preferentially buy local, Freetail can expect a lot more sales to me and my beer-drinking buddies in the future. Buying local is easy when the beer's this good.
Jan 12, 2015This one says "hoppy" on the bottle, but let's not get all crazy now and try to call it an IPA. I'm sorry guys, but everything's not just "some kind of IPA." This is (IMO) very much an American Amber ale, and has the bonus of being generously, but appropriately hopped.
Nice looking red, mostly clear, inviting to the eye, decent head.
Aroma is a bit more subdued than you'd think given the taste, but still contains a great blend of malty and hoppy aromas. This beer is unleashed in the taste department though, with its great blend of wonderfully flavorful malts being the appetizer, main course, and dessert of the beer.
Hops could hardly have been chosen any more perfectly for this brew. They offer a compliment, even an enhancement to the already great malt backbone, but don't come way over the top in a misguided effort to IPA-ize a beer that wasn't meant to pander to the hop-heads who don't have any taste buds left from drinking too much hop extract concentrate.
Body is great. You practically have to chew it after every sip. And despite the noble efforts to not turn this into just another IPA, it's even a little resiny on the finish.
With Freetail's new place on the grocery and liquor store shelves, and the increasing availability of local beer (always a good thing), I predict great things ahead for both them, and my taste buds. And since I do preferentially buy local, Freetail can expect a lot more sales to me and my beer-drinking buddies in the future. Buying local is easy when the beer's this good.
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