Ridgetop Red
Silver City Brewery & Taproom

 

Look: A dark amber-red settles into the glass as a billowing off-white head forms and craters away, leaving great lacing behind

Aroma: Freshly baked bread, red apple notes, caramel, warm bread, some earthiness, and toffee

Taste: Opens up with a lush blend of caramel and toffee that strike fast and quickly followed by layers of bready malt, bringing dough, warm, and freshly baked bread to the table. Apple and earthiness dance around as the malt continues to unpack and closes with the return of bread, caramel, and toffee

Mouthfeel: Full, smooth, clean, medium-high carbonation, and soft and smooth on the finish

Overall: This is some tasty stuff. I love a good Red Ale so couldn’t resist grabbing this when I saw it and doing so was definitely a good decision. It’s a delicious and well-made example and checks all the style boxes to boot. This won’t be my last dance with this beer and recommend it as well

Amber clear body, off-white head. Amber malts with toffee and nuts with dry earth backing. Taste is much the same but with a gentle pine hop finish. Feel is medium light bodied, malty, smooth and clean, satisfying. Just a really well made beer, absolutely loved every sip of it

On tap. Reddish amber color with thin white head. Roasted malt aroma. Medium body with a smooth feel. Rich roasted malt with a light yeast note and an earthy finish. Excellent

Wow big surprise! Seriously delicious. Hard to find a good red ale like this these days. Perfect amount of sweetness from the malt, great touch of hops to balance out the finish, and easy to put down. A bit of maple syrup, hint of brown sugar, even some char and earth. Really impressive flavor profile. Pint on draft from The Growler Guys in Astoria, OR for a reasonable $6.49 in a pint jar.

 

 

Nice, slightly sweet malt & caramel taste, with a hint of hops. This is my wife's favorite type of beer. I had a taste of hers at the tap house, where we went. This is a true red, which is hard to find in the NW, because they all want to make a NW Red (hopped). I like both, but prefer the true Red. 15 IBUs Rated 9-2-2018

Exactly what I was looking for in the Irish Red style. Creamy, malty with a touch of hoppyness.

 

In the 2023 beer advent calendar.

This was a very pleasant surprise. I don't see many red ales on offer in these parts and this would be worth a road trip to go get more.

Nice malt backbone, definite hop presence but overall sweeter than it is bitter. Excellent color and true in every way to the style.

Can: Poured a brown color ale with a light foamy head with minimal retention and light lacing. Aroma of caramel notes with some light roasted flavors. Taste is also a mix of caramel notes with some roasted mat notes and a semi-sweet finish. Body is about average with good carbonation. OK irish ale but lacking character.

 

Pours a dark amber with fine, soapy head.

Smell is malty and a bit floral with notes of brown bread, toffee and some pine.

Taste is malty and a bit floral with a solid bitterness. Notes of brown bread, pine, toffee and citrus.

Mouthfeel is medium and well carbonated.

Overall, a a nice, solid red ale.

 

 

 

 

Pours a dark red color with a foamy tan head that lasts quite a while. Aroma of roasted malts. Taste is unusual - smoky; caramel and roasted malts. No hoppy bitterness.

not a ton of american craft irish reds in distribution these days, at least not that i encounter in my travels, and i was quite pleased to start my day with this today, a style i always associate with day drinking for whatever reason. this is a nice take on the style, robust but also traditional, drinkable, and nicely refined. so much silver city beer in boise lately, especially on tap, its like it hit all at once. in any event, this has a deep bronze to brick red color to it depending on the light, high headed on draft and lacy as it drinks, nice to look at, especially in a globe, fancies it up a bit. one thing i love about this style when its done well is that there is a yeast element through it and that its dry compared to the typical american amber, and both of those elements are present here, which is really all i was looking for from this. the hops balance it nicely but are well restrained, the body isnt super full which i like, and its nice and fizzy so its an easy drink for its color. i think an excellent example of the style overall, more traditional than other beers i have had from these guys, nice they can dip a toe in both waters so competently. no red ale of any persuasion is ever going to blow my mind, but this hits all the marks and then some, frankly one of their better beers so far in my experience from a purely objective quality standpoint. nice!