Red IPA
Clare Valley Brewing Co.
- From:
- Clare Valley Brewing Co.
- Australia
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 19, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 01, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.89/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
500ml bottle - I haven't had a new Aussie brew in a long while, and it's a good time of the year for a strong and hoppy red ale!
This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent gnarly webbed lace around the glass as it evenly evaporates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, pine resin, some muddled dark orchard fruitiness, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, white breakfast biscuits, some mixed bruised pome and citrus fruity notes, a bit of damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a hint of hop astringency taking things down a notch or so at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity malt and lingering frooty hops predominating.
Overall - this comes across as a very well-constructed version of an American take on hoppy red ales. Crisp, easy to put back (despite the extra 2-ish points of the ol' wowee sauce), and worth checking out, should you get the chance. Crikey!
Dec 19, 2018This beer pours a clear, dark red-brick amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent gnarly webbed lace around the glass as it evenly evaporates.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, biscuity toffee, pine resin, some muddled dark orchard fruitiness, and more leafy, weedy, and musky floral hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, white breakfast biscuits, some mixed bruised pome and citrus fruity notes, a bit of damp minerality, and more leafy, herbal, and piney verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its palate-supporting frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, with perhaps a hint of hop astringency taking things down a notch or so at this particular juncture. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity malt and lingering frooty hops predominating.
Overall - this comes across as a very well-constructed version of an American take on hoppy red ales. Crisp, easy to put back (despite the extra 2-ish points of the ol' wowee sauce), and worth checking out, should you get the chance. Crikey!
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