Red Willow Amber Ale
Grain Bin Brewing Company
- From:
- Grain Bin Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 6.43%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 06, 2020
- Added:
- Feb 27, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by scottbeero from Canada (AB)
4.06/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
I've tried a lot of craft beers in this category. This one seems pretty well made. moderate maltiness and tastes more hoppy than indicated by the 23 IBU indicated on the can. incidentally the red willow is the name of a river in the vicinity of where its produced.
Feb 04, 2019
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.53/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - more tree-themed naming from a Grande Prairie brewery, big surprise. Oh, and I'll 'also like it'? That remains to be seen, buddeeeeee.
This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four flabby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves some tiered cirrus cloud form lace around the glass as it evenly sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a faint hint of wispy smokiness, muddled dark orchard fruity notes, a bit of brown sugar syrup, and some plain earthy, leafy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, some hard to discern stone fruitiness, still ethereal char, and more tame leafy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its wan-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, but a bit thin in its countenance, as well. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity malt starting to falter, with the other 'supporting' esters having previously left the building.
Overall, this is an average version of the style, nothing really wrong with it, but nothing really right, either. Easy enough to drink, if you don't think too hard about it, which I'm sure is part of the target demographic in Grande Prairie for this nascent local operation.
Apr 04, 2017This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with four flabby fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves some tiered cirrus cloud form lace around the glass as it evenly sinks away.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, a faint hint of wispy smokiness, muddled dark orchard fruity notes, a bit of brown sugar syrup, and some plain earthy, leafy, and dead floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and bready caramel malt, a touch of biscuity toffee, some hard to discern stone fruitiness, still ethereal char, and more tame leafy, weedy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its wan-seeming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and generally smooth, but a bit thin in its countenance, as well. It finishes off-dry, the biscuity malt starting to falter, with the other 'supporting' esters having previously left the building.
Overall, this is an average version of the style, nothing really wrong with it, but nothing really right, either. Easy enough to drink, if you don't think too hard about it, which I'm sure is part of the target demographic in Grande Prairie for this nascent local operation.
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