Heroica Red Ale
Steamworks Brewing Company

On a Via Rail Train from Edmonton to Valemount 15/7 2018. 47,3 cl can bought on board. Red can with fireman in armour saving a Damsel in distress.

Pours slightly hazy dark amber with a medium-sized white head. Settles as a thin layer of foam crawling up the side of the glass. Moderate lacing.

Aroma is sweet and lightly roasted. Caramel, brown sugar, Roasted dark malts. Tart notes of unripe berries and citrus.

Fairly strong carbonation. Slightly thick, lively texture.

Flavor is medium sweet followed by stronger bitterness. Aftertaste is prominently bitter. Semi-dry finish.

Fine Amber Ale operating on the bitter side of the Road.

Serving: 16 oz pour into a stemmed tulip glass at Jetside Bar at Fairmont YVR.

Appearance: Clear, deep reddish brown with a cap of off white foam.

Smell: Earthy, piney hops, toasted brown bread and slight berries.

Taste: Toasted bread with darker roasted notes, malty sweetness, pine and citrus hops, lightly spicy bitterness.

Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation.

Overall: Straightforward red ale with a little hop bite.

Bottle 0.33L.
Clear copper body with an average, frothy, off-white head, mostly lasting with fair lacing; average density of tiny particles.
Light-to-moderate malty (caramel) aroma with notes of alcohol and light spices.
Light-to-moderate sweet and light bitter flavour; short sweet finish with some acidic note.
Light body with watery texture; average carbonation.

August 2017: 330 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 5.6%, 40 IBU. Hops are Cascade, Citra, Simcoe and Amarillo. Reddish brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma of fruity and piney American hops, also hints of brown bread, caramel malts and chocolate malts. Slightly dry flavour of lightly roasted malts, chocolate, roasted nuts, brown bread and fruity and piney hops.

 

Steamworks Brewpub 'Heroica Red Ale' @ 5.6% , served from a couple of 473 ml can's
A-pour is a dark gold/copper from the can to a dark copper in the glass with a medium size off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-caramel malt with Cascade , Citra , Simcoe & Amarillo - hops
T-big malty red ale , mild bitterness
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-drinkable amber/red ale
prost LampertLand

 

I love Red Ales and this one hits the spot. Its dryer and hoppier than others out there but that's a good thing. Def recommend it. Enough already, imma go finish the drink.

Appearance - Pours an amber copper with three fingers of frothy white head.

Smell - earthy, piney, citrus, leafy, and floral hops, piney hops, citrus and grapefruit peel, pine resin, bready malts, caramel, toffee, and earthy yeast.

Taste - mild earthy, piney, citrus, leafy, and floral hops upfront. The citrus and grapefruit peel, and pine resin come through next. The bready malts, caramel, toffee, and earthy yeast round out the brew.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes slightly sticky with the hops and malts lingering.

Overall - A highly drinkable American red that displays the elements well. I just wish the hops and other elements had a little more oomph to them but otherwise a respectable brew.

Single from Steamworks in Gastown Vancouver.
Deep copper to amber pour 2+ fingers of creamy beige head that fades to a dirty sea foam.
Aroma on head citrus, hoppy, pine, as head fades get the underlying caramel malt.
Taste of a grainy burnt caramel malt, citrus - grapefruit pith, earthy hops.
Thin side of medium body with tame carbonation - easy drinking with a bit of lingering earthy hop bitterness.

 

I am reviewing this on the eve of the 18th anniversary of 9-11-2001 although the date stamp will show 9-11-2019. This is a CANQuest (tm) moment that remains indelible in my mind. My Pops passed away on 28 July 2001 & I had recently returned to the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) for my senior year. I knew that he would have wanted me to CANplete my education & the prospect of his not being around to see me graduate CANstantly hurt. I was living in Lothrop Hall in a single-person dorm room & I liked to get up early in the morning to do homework & hit the shower before the bulk of my younger hallmates. I had my tv on, listening to KDKA-TV while banging away on my desktop keyboard to CANplete yet another paper. Suddenly, they cut live to Manhattan where the first plane had just hit & the thought was that it had been an accident. As the morning's events unfolded & the horrors mounted, I CANtemplated returning to active duty, having retired in October 1998. It would have meant disrupting my education & I know that Pops would not have been pleased, but I agonized for years as the U.S. got entrenched in Iraq & Afghanistan. This is a tough day for me.

From the CAN: "SteamBrewed"; "Malts: 2-Row, Caramalt, Medium Crystal, Munich & Chocolate[;] Hops: Chinook, Citra, Simcoe& Amarillo[;] Colour: Crimson Red[;] IBUs: 40"; "Recycle for Redemption".

I did not really want to play around with this one so I Crack!ed the vent & immediately CANmenced a slow, gentle C-Line Glug.

This one was going to be tough since I was a firefighter once, one of the youngest sailors ever to qualify as a shipboard Locker Leader. There is a level of insanity required to be a cop (I did that, also) or a fireman in order to run towards danger while everyone else is running away. It accounts for a LOT of my madness, but I felt for all of them that morning. F**king survivor's guilt is kicking in again.

The foam piled up quickly & tremendously. The trick in using firefighting foam is to keep the hose & nozzle-handlers from washing it off of the deck with their efforts in beating down the flames with water. No such problem here! The hose in the kitchen sink was not going to reach anyway, but it was piled high, three-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, tawny head with excellent retention, preventing me from my first sip. 8=( Color was a gorgeous Deep-Amber/Light-Copper to Copper (SRM = > 13, < 17) with NE-quality clarity. Nose was the kind of American Amber/Red Ale that I really dig! Amber Ales were the initial norm for microbreweries & brewpubs in the '80s & early-to-mid '90s, but they were usually malt-forward & way too sweet for my taste. The modern iterations, like this one, are more hop-forward. It had a pronounced pine resinousness (YES!) along with the sense that Simcoe, the naughty kitty, had been doing her business & might also need to be rescued. Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium-to-full, not quite creamy, but on the approach. It was definitely big for the style. I really liked the balanced taste - I definitely got pine resin & cattiness, but at the same time, the malt was giving it a very lightly chocolaty-caramel sweetness. This was the hard lesson learned by Sam Adams: a little caramel mal CAN go a LONG way! This was dialed in beautifully to perfectly CANpliment the hops. Finish was semi-dry, thanks to the malt presence, but do not let that throw you off. This was probably on of the best examples of the revamped style in my recent memory. Yum! YMMV.

 

 

 

 

Pours a deep, dark amber coloration with a small, creamy head. Smells of caramel malt and citrus hops, with hints of toffee and pine. Taste is dominated by caramel malt, toffee and a light coffee note, with hoppy notes of grapefruit, orange rind and pine as well. Finishes with a medium/strong bitterness and some pine lingering in the aftertaste. Thin mouthfeel with a light body and medium carbonation.

Decent Red Ale with a good flavour profile that is mainly let down by a somewhat thin and watery mouthfeel and body.