State & Main Red Ale
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 10, 2015
- Added:
- Sep 10, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.48/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
16oz glass at the Edmonton Southgate location.
This beer appears a clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with one fat-ass finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some broken spiderweb lace around the glass as it evenly sinks away.
It smells of gritty grainy caramel malt, wet brown bread, mixed pome and drupe fruit (maybe some overripe red apple, maybe some pickled pear), a faint earthy and savoury spice, wet bar-top nuts, and weedy, leafy, and predominately floral hops. The taste is rather sweet, pastry-like caramel malt, store brand raisins, toffee candies, muddled dark fruit (plum, mostly), a receded spice contingent, and damned near disappeared hop bitters.
The bubbles are pretty laid-back in their underwhelming and disappointing frothiness, the body a sturdy middleweight, and generally smooth, almost to the point of a certain clamminess. It finishes still fairly sweet, the simple minded malt not really worrying about anything else, it would seem.
Promoted off the cuff as a Rickard's Red replacement, that turns out to be not all that far from the truth. Generic and uninviting in its headstrong sweetness, this red ale can duly take its place among the pantheon of tongue-scrape worthy instances of this prototypical Canadian style.
Sep 10, 2015This beer appears a clear, dark orange-brick amber colour, with one fat-ass finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat creamy off-white head, which leaves some broken spiderweb lace around the glass as it evenly sinks away.
It smells of gritty grainy caramel malt, wet brown bread, mixed pome and drupe fruit (maybe some overripe red apple, maybe some pickled pear), a faint earthy and savoury spice, wet bar-top nuts, and weedy, leafy, and predominately floral hops. The taste is rather sweet, pastry-like caramel malt, store brand raisins, toffee candies, muddled dark fruit (plum, mostly), a receded spice contingent, and damned near disappeared hop bitters.
The bubbles are pretty laid-back in their underwhelming and disappointing frothiness, the body a sturdy middleweight, and generally smooth, almost to the point of a certain clamminess. It finishes still fairly sweet, the simple minded malt not really worrying about anything else, it would seem.
Promoted off the cuff as a Rickard's Red replacement, that turns out to be not all that far from the truth. Generic and uninviting in its headstrong sweetness, this red ale can duly take its place among the pantheon of tongue-scrape worthy instances of this prototypical Canadian style.
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