Dispensary Red Ale
Hops & Grain Brewing
- From:
- Hops & Grain Brewing
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.41 | pDev: 14.08%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 24, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 02, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.74/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
RB transfer
Sep 24, 2025
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.5/5 rDev -26.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -26.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
On-draught at the brewery. Brief notes on a phone:
A: 1 inch wide. Off white colour. Leaves nice lacing on the sides of the glass. Recedes fully within 1 minute.
Body is a murky dark copper (I.e. not Amber). No yeast is visible. Translucent but nontransparent.
Sm: Pale malts. Floral Hops. Soap - did this spend too long in primary? Caramalt. Detergent.
Odd, and a bit off putting. Suggests a messy unfocused brew with a lack of balance.
Aromatic intensity is average.
T: Bready Caramalt, pale malts, and strangely no Amber malts. The hop profile is soapy, floral, and overdone. Unbalanced and poorly built, lacking a focus as well as cohesion. I'm not sure what they were after with this one.
Not boozy, yeasty, or Amber malt-redolent.
Mf: Full-bodied, Unrefreshing, coarse, Scratchy, rough, dragging, dry. Fatigues the palate unnecessarily.
O: Horrible if intended to be any type of red ale. Drinks like a badly executed pale ale. I'm not sure what they were after with this, but the lack of direction and balance as well as the soapy off-notes indicate the brewers weren't really in control. Not a beer I'd get again, nor a beer that should have made it past QC. Clean drinking enough to at least be drinkable, but no amount of tinkering could save this - it needs redesigning from the grain bill up. I suspect they just went crazy with the dry hopping for no apparent reason.
High D+ (2.50)
Oct 02, 2015A: 1 inch wide. Off white colour. Leaves nice lacing on the sides of the glass. Recedes fully within 1 minute.
Body is a murky dark copper (I.e. not Amber). No yeast is visible. Translucent but nontransparent.
Sm: Pale malts. Floral Hops. Soap - did this spend too long in primary? Caramalt. Detergent.
Odd, and a bit off putting. Suggests a messy unfocused brew with a lack of balance.
Aromatic intensity is average.
T: Bready Caramalt, pale malts, and strangely no Amber malts. The hop profile is soapy, floral, and overdone. Unbalanced and poorly built, lacking a focus as well as cohesion. I'm not sure what they were after with this one.
Not boozy, yeasty, or Amber malt-redolent.
Mf: Full-bodied, Unrefreshing, coarse, Scratchy, rough, dragging, dry. Fatigues the palate unnecessarily.
O: Horrible if intended to be any type of red ale. Drinks like a badly executed pale ale. I'm not sure what they were after with this, but the lack of direction and balance as well as the soapy off-notes indicate the brewers weren't really in control. Not a beer I'd get again, nor a beer that should have made it past QC. Clean drinking enough to at least be drinkable, but no amount of tinkering could save this - it needs redesigning from the grain bill up. I suspect they just went crazy with the dry hopping for no apparent reason.
High D+ (2.50)
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