Winter Red
Postmark Brewing
- From:
- Postmark Brewing
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.64 | pDev: 6.04%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 17, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 12, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.81/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours a copper crimson red with two fingers of foamy cream coloured head.
Smell - bready caramalts, fruity/spicy yeast, earthy and leafy hops, hint of citrus fruits.
Taste - Bready caramalts and fruity/spicy yeast upfront. Moderate level of bitterness coming from the earthy and leafy hops alongside the hint of citrus fruits help to round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes slightly dry with a lingering bitterness and sweetness.
Overall - A festive take on the traditional red ale style by making the fruity, spicy yeast more present. Malts and hops are also well executed, though it would be nice to have a little more hop bitterness.
Dec 21, 2015Smell - bready caramalts, fruity/spicy yeast, earthy and leafy hops, hint of citrus fruits.
Taste - Bready caramalts and fruity/spicy yeast upfront. Moderate level of bitterness coming from the earthy and leafy hops alongside the hint of citrus fruits help to round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes slightly dry with a lingering bitterness and sweetness.
Overall - A festive take on the traditional red ale style by making the fruity, spicy yeast more present. Malts and hops are also well executed, though it would be nice to have a little more hop bitterness.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - ok, the temps are dropping (but not as fast as usual for this time of year), and it's apparently gonna be in the subzero range starting early next week, so, fine, time for my first 'winter' brew of the current season!
This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some burbling cauldron profile lace around the glass as things slowly and evenly bleed away.
It smells of bready, lightly pastry-like caramel malt, a further biscuity toffee sweetness, a weird suggestion of winter holiday spices that simply aren't really there, indistinct citrus rind bitters, a hint of earthy yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and herbal hops. The taste is toasted caramel malt, more gritty toffee character, wet breakfast biscuits, a hard to pinpoint citrus and browned pome fruitiness, ethereal yeast, and a consistent leafy, herbal, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its genial and yet still hard-working frothiness, the body a docile middleweight, and mostly smooth, a bit of that crackling biscuity essence strangely having an effect right about here. It finishes off-dry, the toasted nature of the malt really persistent in its 'check out my demo, man!' bearing.
Overall, not a bad amber ale, all things considered, but I'm not really sure what makes this a 'Winter' red, other than the time of year in which it was released. I'm hardly complaining, though, as many to most examples of this style kind of suck, season notwithstanding.
Nov 15, 2015This beer pours a clear, bright medium red-brick amber colour, with one chubby finger of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly beige head, which leaves some burbling cauldron profile lace around the glass as things slowly and evenly bleed away.
It smells of bready, lightly pastry-like caramel malt, a further biscuity toffee sweetness, a weird suggestion of winter holiday spices that simply aren't really there, indistinct citrus rind bitters, a hint of earthy yeast, and more leafy, weedy, and herbal hops. The taste is toasted caramel malt, more gritty toffee character, wet breakfast biscuits, a hard to pinpoint citrus and browned pome fruitiness, ethereal yeast, and a consistent leafy, herbal, and dead grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is adequate in its genial and yet still hard-working frothiness, the body a docile middleweight, and mostly smooth, a bit of that crackling biscuity essence strangely having an effect right about here. It finishes off-dry, the toasted nature of the malt really persistent in its 'check out my demo, man!' bearing.
Overall, not a bad amber ale, all things considered, but I'm not really sure what makes this a 'Winter' red, other than the time of year in which it was released. I'm hardly complaining, though, as many to most examples of this style kind of suck, season notwithstanding.
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