Rale Yard Red Ale
Olds College Teaching Brewery
- From:
- Olds College Teaching Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 1.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jan 04, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 09, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.71/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
1L howler from Sherbrooke Liquor store - this offering is produced by the Olds College program for the Alberta Beer Festivals that are held in Calgary and Edmonton later in the year (May and June, respectively).
This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and certainly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some bonsai tree-like hedge lace around the glass as it quickly secedes from the bonds of reality.
It smells of grainy and slightly metallic caramel malt, a twinge of earthy yeast, ethereal oily nuts, and leafy, herbal, and faintly floral hop bitters. The taste is bready and moderately biscuity caramel malt, a muted dark orchard fruitiness, subtle earthy yeast notes, and some laid-back weedy, herbal, and hay-like hoppiness.
The bubbles are fairly generic in their low-key and merely supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really causing any unwanted fervour here, y'know? It finishes off-dry, the gritty caramel and lingering fruitiness keeping those metaphorical home fires duly a-burnin'!
At first (and second, really) contact, all I could think was that the cool kids at Olds College had compromised themselves on the altar of keeping the most people happy, as per my imaged contract that they have with this (or any) beer festival. Turns out that they were just ramping up, and came through quite enjoyably in the end - i.e. a nicely rounded, and appreciably edgy red ale.
Apr 10, 2016This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and certainly bubbly ecru head, which leaves some bonsai tree-like hedge lace around the glass as it quickly secedes from the bonds of reality.
It smells of grainy and slightly metallic caramel malt, a twinge of earthy yeast, ethereal oily nuts, and leafy, herbal, and faintly floral hop bitters. The taste is bready and moderately biscuity caramel malt, a muted dark orchard fruitiness, subtle earthy yeast notes, and some laid-back weedy, herbal, and hay-like hoppiness.
The bubbles are fairly generic in their low-key and merely supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and mostly smooth, nothing really causing any unwanted fervour here, y'know? It finishes off-dry, the gritty caramel and lingering fruitiness keeping those metaphorical home fires duly a-burnin'!
At first (and second, really) contact, all I could think was that the cool kids at Olds College had compromised themselves on the altar of keeping the most people happy, as per my imaged contract that they have with this (or any) beer festival. Turns out that they were just ramping up, and came through quite enjoyably in the end - i.e. a nicely rounded, and appreciably edgy red ale.
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