Red Dawn
Comrade Brewing Company
- From:
- Comrade Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.15 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 27, 2016
- Added:
- Sep 27, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.15/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Impression on-draught @ Comrade in December 2014:
C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
***
Reviewed from notes taken @ Comrade in Fall 2014:
On-draught into a pilsner glass.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: 1 finger's worth of height. White in colour. Nice Creaminess. Average (~2 minute) retention. Nice lacing sticks to the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Translucent glowing copper-red. Clean, with no yeast or sediment visible within.
Looks average for a red ale.
AROMA: Amber malts, caramalt, light toasted malt, cream, bready malts. Floral hops. Herbal hops. Tea-like bitterness, but no obvious hop bitterness.
Aroma is mild in terms of strength, suggesting an underhopped red ale.
I detect no overt yeast. Lacks any detectable booze or off-notes.
TASTE: Has a subtly toasted amber malt and caramalt base with some sweetness that eclipses the hop bitterness a bit too much. It's timid and reticent, lacking sufficient depth of flavour.
Average flavour duration and intensity. Not complex, even in a style that doesn't demand much. Balanced decently.
It's somewhat pedestrian, offering a generic floral and herbal hop flavour but nothing of interest hop or malt wise aside from the faint tea-like bitterness that lingers in the aftertaste.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, aptly thick, well-carbonated, and not boozy. This texture complements the taste nicely, but it doesn't elevate the beer as a whole or accentuate specific flavours.
OVERALL: A very drinkable yet disappointingly shallow red ale with insufficient hop flavour. They bill this as a red IPA, but at best it comes off like a typical American amber ale (not that there's anything wrong with that). Worth trying but middle-of-the-road and uninspired. Still, judged as an American amber, it's easily above average.
High C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
Sep 27, 2016C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
***
Reviewed from notes taken @ Comrade in Fall 2014:
On-draught into a pilsner glass.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: 1 finger's worth of height. White in colour. Nice Creaminess. Average (~2 minute) retention. Nice lacing sticks to the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Translucent glowing copper-red. Clean, with no yeast or sediment visible within.
Looks average for a red ale.
AROMA: Amber malts, caramalt, light toasted malt, cream, bready malts. Floral hops. Herbal hops. Tea-like bitterness, but no obvious hop bitterness.
Aroma is mild in terms of strength, suggesting an underhopped red ale.
I detect no overt yeast. Lacks any detectable booze or off-notes.
TASTE: Has a subtly toasted amber malt and caramalt base with some sweetness that eclipses the hop bitterness a bit too much. It's timid and reticent, lacking sufficient depth of flavour.
Average flavour duration and intensity. Not complex, even in a style that doesn't demand much. Balanced decently.
It's somewhat pedestrian, offering a generic floral and herbal hop flavour but nothing of interest hop or malt wise aside from the faint tea-like bitterness that lingers in the aftertaste.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, aptly thick, well-carbonated, and not boozy. This texture complements the taste nicely, but it doesn't elevate the beer as a whole or accentuate specific flavours.
OVERALL: A very drinkable yet disappointingly shallow red ale with insufficient hop flavour. They bill this as a red IPA, but at best it comes off like a typical American amber ale (not that there's anything wrong with that). Worth trying but middle-of-the-road and uninspired. Still, judged as an American amber, it's easily above average.
High C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE
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