Hot Lips
Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- From:
- Refined Fool Brewing Co.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.57 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 20, 2021
- Added:
- Jun 04, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Brewed in collaboration with The Society of Beer Drinking Ladies, this full-flavoured IPA blends hoppy bitterness and subtle malt sweetness with rich cinnamon heart spicy warmth. Proceeds will be donated to the Sarnia-Lambton Native Friendship Centre and the Canadian Women’s Foundation.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.57/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Bomber purchased at the brewery; no packaging date and served slightly chilled.
Pours a foggy amber-bronze colour with reddish-orange highlights; situated atop is nearly an inch of foamy, off white-tinged head that falls apart within three minutes or so. It leaves behind multiple rings of sticky, messy lacing as it recedes, with a creamy collar and bubbly film being the other eventual remnants. It smells of earthy, resiny, floral hops and pine sap, with additional notes of bready malts and brown sugar. The cinnamon isn't a big player - I can sort of sense it, but there's always a chance that I'm only picking that up because I was expecting to.
It's not bad... but it's also not that great. Bready malts, toasted biscuit and caramelized sugars come through first, with earthy, floral hops developing soon after - I am getting a touch of cinnamon heart candy spiciness in the middle and towards the finish, but it's largely brushed aside by the hops, which provide a dirty, earthy bitterness that lingers into the aftertaste. Medium in body, with fairly assertive carbonation that lends a crisp, prickly bite to this brew's relatively smooth mouthfeel - I found it reasonably drinkable, even though the hop profile is not really to my liking.
Final Grade: 3.57, a B grade. Hot Lips Red IPA is a serviceable, unspectacular offering that I could take or leave. It's very much along the lines of an old-school Ontario pale ale - it reminds me of a maltier version of their Antique Peepshow, with the cinnamon being just barely noticeable enough to serve as a real differentiating factor. In the end, it's a forgettable red ale that I am not in a hurry to return to, but at least it was for a good cause.
Jul 20, 2021Pours a foggy amber-bronze colour with reddish-orange highlights; situated atop is nearly an inch of foamy, off white-tinged head that falls apart within three minutes or so. It leaves behind multiple rings of sticky, messy lacing as it recedes, with a creamy collar and bubbly film being the other eventual remnants. It smells of earthy, resiny, floral hops and pine sap, with additional notes of bready malts and brown sugar. The cinnamon isn't a big player - I can sort of sense it, but there's always a chance that I'm only picking that up because I was expecting to.
It's not bad... but it's also not that great. Bready malts, toasted biscuit and caramelized sugars come through first, with earthy, floral hops developing soon after - I am getting a touch of cinnamon heart candy spiciness in the middle and towards the finish, but it's largely brushed aside by the hops, which provide a dirty, earthy bitterness that lingers into the aftertaste. Medium in body, with fairly assertive carbonation that lends a crisp, prickly bite to this brew's relatively smooth mouthfeel - I found it reasonably drinkable, even though the hop profile is not really to my liking.
Final Grade: 3.57, a B grade. Hot Lips Red IPA is a serviceable, unspectacular offering that I could take or leave. It's very much along the lines of an old-school Ontario pale ale - it reminds me of a maltier version of their Antique Peepshow, with the cinnamon being just barely noticeable enough to serve as a real differentiating factor. In the end, it's a forgettable red ale that I am not in a hurry to return to, but at least it was for a good cause.
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