Rickard's Red Session Lager
Molson Coors Canada
- From:
- Molson Coors Canada
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Lager
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +1 rating needed
- Avg:
- 3.29 | pDev: 7.6%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 5
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 24, 2017
- Added:
- Feb 26, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by ewpass from Canada (PE)
2.98/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
2.98/5 rDev -9.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
Medium-high carbonation. Average taste, not unpleasant.
Feb 24, 2017
Reviewed by kevofficiel from Canada (QC)
3.32/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.32/5 rDev +0.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Rickard's Red Session Lager from Molson Coors Canada bought a 12 mix pack for 13,99$
Look: Beautiful red and brown color. About a finger of white head.
Smell: Like a Rickard's red. A little bit of malt and a touch of caramel.
Taste: Malt, a little of caramel, easy drinking. More hops than the Rickard's red.
Feel: Very light. Light mouthfeel. Easy drinking Very refreshing
So overall would I recommend it ? Sure this is a easing drinking beer. It's an inoffensive beer.
Sep 23, 2016Look: Beautiful red and brown color. About a finger of white head.
Smell: Like a Rickard's red. A little bit of malt and a touch of caramel.
Taste: Malt, a little of caramel, easy drinking. More hops than the Rickard's red.
Feel: Very light. Light mouthfeel. Easy drinking Very refreshing
So overall would I recommend it ? Sure this is a easing drinking beer. It's an inoffensive beer.
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.27/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
3.27/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
Pours a translucent ruby-cola colour with surprisingly persistent two fingers of dense foam. Decent lacing. Smell is weedy herbal hops, caramel malt, a bit of burnt-syrup character, bitter, leafy greens. Has that Molson . . . minerality (?) or particular strand of yeastiness I often find in their stuff. Taste is, as you'd imagine, pretty close to what I recall of standard Rickard's Red, perhaps with a touch more hop character and a lighter body (less sweet, too--less brewer's caramel?). Doughy, yeasty. Herbal, but the hops getting lost a bit on the taste. Body is still a bit heavy for 4% ABV, carbonation is unobtrusive.
I don't hate it. It's more full-flavoured than a lot of stuff at this ABV, and is perhaps more drinkable than standard Rickard's Red (which I returned to recently and which HAS NOT held up well--heavy and sweet and one-dimensional). But it's got a ways to go to get there, still: keep pulling back on the sweetness, take away a bit of the heavy "weight," and maybe tweak the hop profile. . . .
Apr 22, 2016I don't hate it. It's more full-flavoured than a lot of stuff at this ABV, and is perhaps more drinkable than standard Rickard's Red (which I returned to recently and which HAS NOT held up well--heavy and sweet and one-dimensional). But it's got a ways to go to get there, still: keep pulling back on the sweetness, take away a bit of the heavy "weight," and maybe tweak the hop profile. . . .
Reviewed by Borbly from Canada ()
3.33/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.33/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Pours a tawny clear body with a foamy white head with some retention. The scent has a light noble hoppiness to it, very similar to regular Rickards. The taste is quite light, though again akin to the regular with lighter body. Good for light beer
Mar 12, 2016
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.12/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.12/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Tallboy can from TBS; packaged Feb 10 2016 and served at trunk temperature.
Pours crystal clear amber in colour, with one finger of frothy, off-white head that dissipates over the next two minutes or so. No lace or cap; only a thin collar remains afterwards. The aroma is mostly caramel and cereal grains, with lighter notes of corn syrup and an indeterminate earthiness. Boiled vegetables and compost water off the can. My impression thus far is that this is basically Rickard's Red Light.
And actually, as someone who is not a big fan of Rickard's Red, that probably makes it a slight improvement over the original - the flavours are similar, which is less than ideal, but they're less concentrated in the Session Lager. It tastes primarily of cereal grains, bready malt and light caramel sweetness, followed by a weak hint of dirty, earthy hops on the back end. Very straightforward, but more or less unobjectionable. On the heftier side of light-bodied, with average carbonation levels for this sort of beer - that is to say, moderately assertive and a little prickly. Slightly crisp, and much more refreshing/drinkable than the beer from which it claims descent.
Final Grade: 3.12, a C+. Rickard's Red Session Lager isn't bad - I'm not ready to call it good, but it's definitely not bad. There's not much to this beer, but that's probably what makes it inherently inoffensive. In summary, it's a light amber ale that should appeal to fans of the other products in the Rickard's portfolio - I wouldn't turn it down if offered, but the other pickins would need to be pretty slim before I'd actually take the initiative to purchase more of this.
Mar 06, 2016Pours crystal clear amber in colour, with one finger of frothy, off-white head that dissipates over the next two minutes or so. No lace or cap; only a thin collar remains afterwards. The aroma is mostly caramel and cereal grains, with lighter notes of corn syrup and an indeterminate earthiness. Boiled vegetables and compost water off the can. My impression thus far is that this is basically Rickard's Red Light.
And actually, as someone who is not a big fan of Rickard's Red, that probably makes it a slight improvement over the original - the flavours are similar, which is less than ideal, but they're less concentrated in the Session Lager. It tastes primarily of cereal grains, bready malt and light caramel sweetness, followed by a weak hint of dirty, earthy hops on the back end. Very straightforward, but more or less unobjectionable. On the heftier side of light-bodied, with average carbonation levels for this sort of beer - that is to say, moderately assertive and a little prickly. Slightly crisp, and much more refreshing/drinkable than the beer from which it claims descent.
Final Grade: 3.12, a C+. Rickard's Red Session Lager isn't bad - I'm not ready to call it good, but it's definitely not bad. There's not much to this beer, but that's probably what makes it inherently inoffensive. In summary, it's a light amber ale that should appeal to fans of the other products in the Rickard's portfolio - I wouldn't turn it down if offered, but the other pickins would need to be pretty slim before I'd actually take the initiative to purchase more of this.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.26/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.26/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
341ml, as used-looking (sorry, reclaimed or recycled) as ever bottle. Molson sure seems keen on jumping all over the (sort of) current trends in craft brewing, don't they?
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fat fingers of puffy, broadly foamy, and fizzy ecru head, which leaves a bit of stringy and sudsy lace around the glass as it lazily abates.
It smells of grainy caramel, um, 'syrup', roasted corn, some generic minerality, and a plain earthy, musty, and faintly herbal bitterness. The taste is bland bready and wet crackery malt, ethereal underripe citrus notes, a sense of yeast gone wrong (in a metallic, rather than sour or funky manner), and more plain weedy, musty, and wet earth-like, uhhhh, Imma gonna say hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly easy-going in its gentle, if sometimes aspiring frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, but you'd be forgiven for actually thinking as much - sneaky, that. It finishes off-dry, that somehow tainted malt really the only band member sticking around to sign autographs - and yeah, it's the freaking drummer.
Well, this certainly looks like the eldest of the Rickard's pseudo craft beer family - but then it would, to duly follow the concept of the 'session' trend. What it does have going for it, is that it barely drops off in terms of body and 'flavour', upon lowering the ABV to those 4 points of heretofore nanny state propriety. So, this will do the trick for those get-togethers with that family member who thinks Rickard's Red is the shit, but now needs to drive your DIPA-swilling ass home.
Feb 28, 2016This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with two fat fingers of puffy, broadly foamy, and fizzy ecru head, which leaves a bit of stringy and sudsy lace around the glass as it lazily abates.
It smells of grainy caramel, um, 'syrup', roasted corn, some generic minerality, and a plain earthy, musty, and faintly herbal bitterness. The taste is bland bready and wet crackery malt, ethereal underripe citrus notes, a sense of yeast gone wrong (in a metallic, rather than sour or funky manner), and more plain weedy, musty, and wet earth-like, uhhhh, Imma gonna say hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly easy-going in its gentle, if sometimes aspiring frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and not particularly smooth, but you'd be forgiven for actually thinking as much - sneaky, that. It finishes off-dry, that somehow tainted malt really the only band member sticking around to sign autographs - and yeah, it's the freaking drummer.
Well, this certainly looks like the eldest of the Rickard's pseudo craft beer family - but then it would, to duly follow the concept of the 'session' trend. What it does have going for it, is that it barely drops off in terms of body and 'flavour', upon lowering the ABV to those 4 points of heretofore nanny state propriety. So, this will do the trick for those get-togethers with that family member who thinks Rickard's Red is the shit, but now needs to drive your DIPA-swilling ass home.
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