Ale
Red Truck Beer Company Ltd.
- From:
- Red Truck Beer Company Ltd.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 12.64%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 06, 2017
- Added:
- Mar 01, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.54/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
355ml bottle (5.2% ABV) - nowhere on the label does it mention the word 'amber'.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber (yup) colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves some roiling sea foam lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of free-range char, muddled tropical berry fruit esters, bittersweet cocoa powder, and further tame leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some black berry and muted cherry fruitiness, mild nutty chocolate notes, and more laid-back leafy, earthy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its sort of playful frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing else to really report on at this juncture. It finishes well off-dry, the big malt and attendant fruitiness making for a near one-sided lingering experience.
Overall, this comes across as a serviceable, if kind of forgettable hoppy amber ale - it just seems too sweet by the end of this single serving. Well-made, but not something that I could see sessioning, not without a whole lot more balance employed in the yin/yang of malt/hop here.
Jun 14, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber (yup) colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat fizzy tan head, which leaves some roiling sea foam lace around the glass as it lazily sinks out of sight.
It smells of semi-sweet, bready and doughy caramel malt, a touch of free-range char, muddled tropical berry fruit esters, bittersweet cocoa powder, and further tame leafy, weedy, and musky floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, some black berry and muted cherry fruitiness, mild nutty chocolate notes, and more laid-back leafy, earthy, and grassy verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its sort of playful frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, with nothing else to really report on at this juncture. It finishes well off-dry, the big malt and attendant fruitiness making for a near one-sided lingering experience.
Overall, this comes across as a serviceable, if kind of forgettable hoppy amber ale - it just seems too sweet by the end of this single serving. Well-made, but not something that I could see sessioning, not without a whole lot more balance employed in the yin/yang of malt/hop here.
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