Red Sky At Night: Peach Cranberry Radler
Lake of Bays Brewing Company
- From:
- Lake of Bays Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 2.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 4.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 10, 2020
- Added:
- Nov 07, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by GingerFinn from Canada (ON)
3.59/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.59/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Drank more like a sour than a radler to me. Loved the light pinkish colour. I got a whole lot of cranberry but barely any of the promised peach, which brought the rating down a bit. I enjoyed the heavy carbonation. Went well with homemade Asian cabbage pancakes.
Aug 10, 2020
Reviewed by TerryW from Canada (ON)
3.27/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.27/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Comes across as an artificial construct. Clear orangey-gold colour, short white head that evaporates quickly. Just a thin ring left behind but, surprisingly enough, a fair bit of fine lace. Nose is that artificial peach-like thing you might experience from a Tim Horton's "fruit drink". A little peach to taste, a little cranberry. A little sweet up front, sharp cranberry bite up the middle, bitter and a touch metallic to finish. Thin bodied. Nothing particularly special, another so-so brew out of LoB.
Mar 30, 2020
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.26/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.26/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Tallboy from Superstore; dated Aug 15 2019 and served slightly chilled. I was going to call this out of season, but I suppose it does have cranberry in it.
Pours a clear, pale pinkish-golden colour, generating half a finger of foamy white head that fizzles off in less than sixty seconds. A tight collar and some wisps upon the surface are the only remnants; looks fine for a radler. Hints of peach tartness and cranberry juice come through on the nose, as do suggestions of citrus, apples and grassy hops - no major objections so far.
A light beer in the truest sense - the descriptor that first and foremost comes to mind is 'diluted'. Watery cranberry juice and peach flavouring are the driving forces behind the flavour, which is not especially sweet - indeed, I'd describe it closer to 'tart' than anything else, though that astringent quality of cranberry does come through as well. Beyond that, hints of citrus and grainy malts are discernible, but relegated to background duty; I'm also getting a kind of a buttery note towards the finish, but it's immediately displaced by cranberry and peach sourness into the aftertaste. Light in body, with lively carbonation that prickles and prods the palate throughout the sip; feels crisp and spritzy in the mouth. This one went down the hatch with ease, but it didn't leave me feeling satisfied afterwards.
Final Grade: 3.26, a C+. Red Sky At Night is tolerable enough, but it's hardly Lake of Bays' finest work. This beer's individual parts are inoffensive, but they don't come together very well IMO - not to mention it has that seltzer-water feel that I usually only get from actual near beers. I don't think I'd buy this again.
Dec 21, 2019Pours a clear, pale pinkish-golden colour, generating half a finger of foamy white head that fizzles off in less than sixty seconds. A tight collar and some wisps upon the surface are the only remnants; looks fine for a radler. Hints of peach tartness and cranberry juice come through on the nose, as do suggestions of citrus, apples and grassy hops - no major objections so far.
A light beer in the truest sense - the descriptor that first and foremost comes to mind is 'diluted'. Watery cranberry juice and peach flavouring are the driving forces behind the flavour, which is not especially sweet - indeed, I'd describe it closer to 'tart' than anything else, though that astringent quality of cranberry does come through as well. Beyond that, hints of citrus and grainy malts are discernible, but relegated to background duty; I'm also getting a kind of a buttery note towards the finish, but it's immediately displaced by cranberry and peach sourness into the aftertaste. Light in body, with lively carbonation that prickles and prods the palate throughout the sip; feels crisp and spritzy in the mouth. This one went down the hatch with ease, but it didn't leave me feeling satisfied afterwards.
Final Grade: 3.26, a C+. Red Sky At Night is tolerable enough, but it's hardly Lake of Bays' finest work. This beer's individual parts are inoffensive, but they don't come together very well IMO - not to mention it has that seltzer-water feel that I usually only get from actual near beers. I don't think I'd buy this again.
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