Quills Karoo Red
Porcupine Quill Micro Brewery and Deli
- From:
- Porcupine Quill Micro Brewery and Deli
- South Africa
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.28 | pDev: 10.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 18, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 15, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Svingjo from Canada (BC)
3.16/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
3.16/5 rDev -3.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Being bottle conditioned this poured a coppery orange with an expected murkiness. Head was non-existent. It had a malty nose, with hints of dates and a slight citrus backnote. There was something else that took me a bit to recognize. Much like South African wines it had that slight nose of band-aids on the edges. I found the flavour to be fairly thin, pleasant but thin never the less. There was some caramel flavours coming forward along with a slight citrus and hoppiness. The mouthfeel was on the light side. An average beer, maybe it was a bit young and might improve with some cellar time. Who knows?
Dec 17, 2014
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.25/5 rDev -0.9%
3.25/5 rDev -0.9%
Day 15 of the Craft Beer Advent calendar. I would agree with previous reviewers that this is a bit of a work in progress. It is bottle conditioned, so it would probably benefit from a bit
of storage time. The flavors are pleasant - a bit of brown sugar and caramel malt, with an exceptionally dry finish. The lack of head and carbonation are certainly noticeable and detract from the overall experience. I would love to have another bottle to put away for a while!
Dec 16, 2014of storage time. The flavors are pleasant - a bit of brown sugar and caramel malt, with an exceptionally dry finish. The lack of head and carbonation are certainly noticeable and detract from the overall experience. I would love to have another bottle to put away for a while!
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.13/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.13/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
330ml bottle, day 15 of the 2014 Craft Beer Advent calendar, and probably my first craft brew from South Africa. Karoo Red is apparently analogous to 'Desert Red', a cool enough name for me.
This beer pours a hazy, murky, dark bronzed amber colour, with one rather skinny finger of weakly foamy, and mostly just bubbly off-white head, which leaves little beyond a few low-lying specks of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly abates.
It smells of musty caramel malt, a bit of soused dark bread, brown sugar, fruitcake-adjacent candied orchard offerings, a touch of gritty yeast, and earthy, leafy, and fairly herbal hops. The taste is more sweet bready caramel malt, wet crackers, thin demarara sugar, a certain phenolic yeastiness, indistinct dark fruit esters, and weak leafy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are pretty innocuous for the most part, barely registering on the ol' frothometer, the body medium-light in weight, and more than a bit tacky in its pleading attempt at smoothness. It finishes off-dry, just, the lingering touched caramel malt trying its damnedest to relieve itself of those hangers-on.
Hmmmm, yeah, this one seems to be a work in progress, unfinished as it were - too many off-flavours, which, while admittedly mild, still tell the tale of a beer in need of some stoic quality control improvements. Cool origins, not so agreeable delivery, I'm afraid.
Dec 15, 2014This beer pours a hazy, murky, dark bronzed amber colour, with one rather skinny finger of weakly foamy, and mostly just bubbly off-white head, which leaves little beyond a few low-lying specks of mitochondrial lace around the glass as it quickly abates.
It smells of musty caramel malt, a bit of soused dark bread, brown sugar, fruitcake-adjacent candied orchard offerings, a touch of gritty yeast, and earthy, leafy, and fairly herbal hops. The taste is more sweet bready caramel malt, wet crackers, thin demarara sugar, a certain phenolic yeastiness, indistinct dark fruit esters, and weak leafy, weedy hops.
The bubbles are pretty innocuous for the most part, barely registering on the ol' frothometer, the body medium-light in weight, and more than a bit tacky in its pleading attempt at smoothness. It finishes off-dry, just, the lingering touched caramel malt trying its damnedest to relieve itself of those hangers-on.
Hmmmm, yeah, this one seems to be a work in progress, unfinished as it were - too many off-flavours, which, while admittedly mild, still tell the tale of a beer in need of some stoic quality control improvements. Cool origins, not so agreeable delivery, I'm afraid.
Reviewed by Mlkluther from Canada (AB)
3.25/5 rDev -0.9%
3.25/5 rDev -0.9%
Day 15 of the BeerAdvent calendar.
Pours a hazy copper with a good head that dissipates and leaves a ring.
Nose has dark fruit, fermented fruit, a little slice, and malt.
Taste follows nose but has a real earthy flavour as well. A silight dry bitter finish. A little watery.
The mouthfeel is surprisingly light.
Dec 15, 2014Pours a hazy copper with a good head that dissipates and leaves a ring.
Nose has dark fruit, fermented fruit, a little slice, and malt.
Taste follows nose but has a real earthy flavour as well. A silight dry bitter finish. A little watery.
The mouthfeel is surprisingly light.
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