Bottled version of Reading brewpub’s affable dry-hopped red ale tethers congenial floral spicing to toasted barley-wheat base, absorbing bittersweet peach-tangerine-grapefruit tang. Latent metallic swagger depletes tertiary honeyed nut, fruitcake, and pear-apple illusions.
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NEWPORT STORM THUNDERHEAD IRISH RED
Circuitous cola-hazed moderate body with fizzy round-bubbled head and prolonged Cascade hop frisk goes beyond stylistic inclination. Delicate raisin, nutmeg and toffee illusions enhance toasted caramelized barleymalt efficiency to cocoa-buttered finish. Serve as subtle alternative to creamier barleywines. Located afresh chocolate-pecan finesse, earthen dried tobacco regress, cooked vegetable passivity and hemp oil residue while quaffing ’07 Spring Ale version.
RICKARD’S RED ALE
SCROOGE & MARLEY RED ALE
TROUT RIVER RAINBOW RED ALE
BELFAST BAY LOBSTER RED ALE
Aromatic fruity malt facade fades alongside floral hop seduction, allowing dominant honeyed oat astringency to temper dry tea snip, phenol mocha-nut saunter and rustic hay-horsehide-barnyard earthiness. Softening piney finish picks up arid pecan-almond-walnut hints, vegetal splurge, and dry firewood remnant.
CASCO BAY RIPTIDE RED ALE
FLYING BISON AVIATOR RED ALE
ITHACA EXCELSIOR 10 DOUBLE RED ALE
LONETREE SUNSET RED ALE
NORTH COAST RUEDRICH’S RED SEAL ALE
Likable citric-hopped frothy-headed copper-hazed bitter gains caramel malt fortitude above quaint chocolate nuttiness and sweet stone fruiting. Advancing sunny orange tang awakens barleywine smidgen. Less crisp, clean, and organic than most Cali brews, bringing a more blue collar grain-based pilsner appeal to medium-bodied nicety.
(RJ BRASSEURS) BELLE GUEULE ROUSSE
Spicy hops sit on front of tongue as toasted cereal grain indifference and sour orange murk drag down amber-hued red ale. Spongy nut finish fades quick.






