(Big Red) Cock Ale
Bacchus Brewing Co.
- From:
- Bacchus Brewing Co.
- Australia
- Style:
- Scottish Ale
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 7.72%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 30, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 29, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by QueenDiva2015 from Michigan
3.13/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.25
3.13/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.25
I smelled a lot of fruit in the beginning but it had a grainy taste with a dry aftertaste to go along with it.
Apr 30, 2015
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.74/5 rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Tried on-tap at Dejavu Bar in Melbourne during Good Beer Week 2013. This is brewed to an ancient Scottish recipe, including grapes, mace and a whole chicken.
Pours a deep ruby-brown colour, very solidly hazed. Body is pretty heavy, even heavier than expected. Head is very fine and pretty thin, only forming a minimal ring of beige. Lace forms in tiny specks. Tilting the glass gives a rain of tiny bubbles. Certainly very interesting.
Nose is immediately weird. Musty and meaty with a definite smoky smallgoods character, and some porky frankfurter. Slight oak seems to come through, or a vinous character. Banana wraps it all up. It's very strange.
It just keeps getting stranger on the palate. Rose petal comes through, along with a musty, woody note. More of those smoky characters come through the centre, before the mace comes out towards the back, giving a biting medicine and chemical bitterness out of the spice. Feel is light and dry, again adding to the vinous note.
Yep, this is definitely weird. Bizarre in fact. There are so many complexities to this, and almost all of them are unusual and unexpected. I think this was the first beer that made me ask "what the hell are these Bacchus guys on?"
Dec 29, 2013Pours a deep ruby-brown colour, very solidly hazed. Body is pretty heavy, even heavier than expected. Head is very fine and pretty thin, only forming a minimal ring of beige. Lace forms in tiny specks. Tilting the glass gives a rain of tiny bubbles. Certainly very interesting.
Nose is immediately weird. Musty and meaty with a definite smoky smallgoods character, and some porky frankfurter. Slight oak seems to come through, or a vinous character. Banana wraps it all up. It's very strange.
It just keeps getting stranger on the palate. Rose petal comes through, along with a musty, woody note. More of those smoky characters come through the centre, before the mace comes out towards the back, giving a biting medicine and chemical bitterness out of the spice. Feel is light and dry, again adding to the vinous note.
Yep, this is definitely weird. Bizarre in fact. There are so many complexities to this, and almost all of them are unusual and unexpected. I think this was the first beer that made me ask "what the hell are these Bacchus guys on?"
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