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Red Rage
Tool Shed Brewing
- From:
- Tool Shed Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Irish Red Ale
Ranked #5 - ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #11,033 - Avg:
- 4.01 | pDev: 6.98%
- Reviews:
- 14
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 23, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 18, 2013
- Wants:
- 11
- Gots:
- 14
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Rated by Ghrymm from Canada (BC)
3.93/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap at the Westin Airport Hotel, Calgary Alberta.
A nice tasting Red Ale.
Oct 23, 2023A nice tasting Red Ale.
Reviewed by BPVandenbroek from Canada (AB)
3.85/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.85/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Red Rage is a deep reddish copper colored ale. Head is cream colored and has decent retention, leaving hints of lace down the side of my glass.
Rich, caramel oriented aromas are the first thing I notice. The nose starts out with caramel, moving into cocoa powder. A little nuttiness comes through in the center, blending nicely with the caramel and cocoa powder. Hints of coffee come through in the finish. It's interesting how these aromas combine to give such depth and keep the nose enticing enough to make you hungry for that first sip.
On the tongue, Red Rage is smooth, rich, and shows much depth of flavor. Caramel and cocoa powder cross my tongue first, with caramel cutting the mouth coating quality of the cocoa powder. Sweetness comes through a little in the center, giving hints of ripe orchard fruit. Bready, soda cracker malts also play their part in lending support to Red Rage's flavor profile. The finish is pleasantly roasted, giving a coffeeish note before making way for the next sip.
As a good Irish Red ale should, Red Rage reminds me of a deeper, more intensely flavorful version of an English brown ale.
May 21, 2021Rich, caramel oriented aromas are the first thing I notice. The nose starts out with caramel, moving into cocoa powder. A little nuttiness comes through in the center, blending nicely with the caramel and cocoa powder. Hints of coffee come through in the finish. It's interesting how these aromas combine to give such depth and keep the nose enticing enough to make you hungry for that first sip.
On the tongue, Red Rage is smooth, rich, and shows much depth of flavor. Caramel and cocoa powder cross my tongue first, with caramel cutting the mouth coating quality of the cocoa powder. Sweetness comes through a little in the center, giving hints of ripe orchard fruit. Bready, soda cracker malts also play their part in lending support to Red Rage's flavor profile. The finish is pleasantly roasted, giving a coffeeish note before making way for the next sip.
As a good Irish Red ale should, Red Rage reminds me of a deeper, more intensely flavorful version of an English brown ale.
Reviewed by patre_tim from Thailand
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Deep red with little carbonation and 3 fingers of white head.
Smells of coffee, toffee, and a slightly burnt note.
Tastes of coffee, toffee and a hint of orange citrus.
Medium body with little carbonation.
I got this in Banff, Alberta, August 21st, 2019 and am drinking it in Radium Hot Springs, BC, the same day. Nice brew.
Aug 22, 2019Smells of coffee, toffee, and a slightly burnt note.
Tastes of coffee, toffee and a hint of orange citrus.
Medium body with little carbonation.
I got this in Banff, Alberta, August 21st, 2019 and am drinking it in Radium Hot Springs, BC, the same day. Nice brew.
Reviewed by machineglen from Canada (AB)
4.47/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
I love a good Irish red ale. This is a exceptional one. I poured a can of this into a stemmed beer glass. Nice deep red Amber colour, lots of course white head, although it receded quickly. My sniffer was greeted by toasted heaven and just a tiny bit of hop aroma. The taste... I've been home brewing this style for years, and this is exactly what I always try to do but never quite achieve.... You can taste the roasted barely, it's pretty forward, but not over bearing, the roast toasty awesomeness is there but not too much astringent bitterness. Hops play a supporting role, very minor, but there. Just enough crystal in there for the silky smooth mouth feel, the definition of medium body, not too thin, not too chewey, just right. This might be my new favorite beer, I really enjoyed it.
Plus the write up on the can is amusing!
Jul 08, 2018Plus the write up on the can is amusing!
Reviewed by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.88/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
That's a straight up good beer. I tend toward the hoppy and this beer brings some hops but throws in some awesome roasted Carmel malt flavour. Usually red also and brown ales bore me to tears. Not this one. Tool Shed is definitely on my radar!
Apr 29, 2016Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.89/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.89/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Tool Shed Brewing 'Red Rage' Irish red ale @ 5.6% , served from a free sample 355 ml can
A-pour is copper from the can to a clear dark amber in the glass with a small beige head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-hints of toasted bread , slight hop
T-roasted coffee with a hop bite on the swallow
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer
prost LampertLand
Mar 27, 2016A-pour is copper from the can to a clear dark amber in the glass with a small beige head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-hints of toasted bread , slight hop
T-roasted coffee with a hop bite on the swallow
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
4.04/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.04/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
It's been a year or so since I've had this, but every time I come back to it I like it more. What's interesting is that this has a lot of "dark beer" flavours but in the context of a surprisingly light, drinkable, sessionable, enjoyable beer.
Pours a ruby colour, capped by some average head that recedes rather quickly. Smell is coffee, crystal malt, chocolate malt. Herbal hops, slightly "Guiness-y," fairly creamy. Love, love, love that coffee flavour.
Taste echoes the smell, and yet in the context of a light-bodied brew that you wouldn't suspect: crystal malt, some brown sugar, coffee, faint molasses, herbal hops, biscuity malt, caramel. Light body, light-ish carbonation.
This is damned *lovely*. The real star of the Tool Shed line-up.
Sep 08, 2015Pours a ruby colour, capped by some average head that recedes rather quickly. Smell is coffee, crystal malt, chocolate malt. Herbal hops, slightly "Guiness-y," fairly creamy. Love, love, love that coffee flavour.
Taste echoes the smell, and yet in the context of a light-bodied brew that you wouldn't suspect: crystal malt, some brown sugar, coffee, faint molasses, herbal hops, biscuity malt, caramel. Light body, light-ish carbonation.
This is damned *lovely*. The real star of the Tool Shed line-up.
Red Rage from Tool Shed Brewing
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
46 ratings
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