Redneck Hill Ale
Cabarrus Brewing Co.

This one a gift from my good friend and Phytogen cotton seed representative Marvin Stewart.

Brewed by Cabarrus Brewing for Charlotte Motor Speedway, the following blurb is on the bottom backside of the can: "Redneck Hill Ale is brewed, canned and presented to you with the same tender love and care your average race fan might use when putting his couch on top of a school bus."

Pours a clear deep gold with moderate effervescence streaming from the bottom of the glass. The pour produces 3+ fingers of white, foamy, shortlived head that leaves only a few motes and streaks of lace behind as it recedes to a thin surface cap and moderate collar. Aroma is delicate: pale malt, biscuit, grain, a hint of toasted bread, faint lemon and grass and not much else. There is however a hint of mineral in the background. Taste is fronted by pale malt and clean, vibrant cereal grains; followed by ale yeast, lemon, grass and mineral. It is thinly fruity with very little of the vanilla hint I find in many cream ales. The sulfur of the nose is missing in the mouth. This particular quality is also found in their Cotton Blonde ale. The light aftertaste is pale malt, thinly fruity and bitter. More bitter than the average cream ale. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate carbonation, more mouth filling than the body would indicate and somewhat wet and thinly juicy; in this way it differs from their Cotton Blonde cream ale which is dry and crisp. Certainly good but not nearly as delightful to drink as Cotton Blonde which is one of the better cream ales I have tasted to date.