Beermanns Rip Roarin Red Ale

Brewed by Beermanns Beerwerks Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Lincoln, California USA

Clear copper body with medium beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, caramel, chocolate, some earthy, nutty. Taste is medium sweet, caramel, chocolate, nutty, finishes with some earthy and grapefruit along with chocolate. Light-medium body. This would make a nice "transition beer."

12oz bottle acquired in trade with riversideAK (thanks!). Poured a medium and cloudy copperish color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of floral hops, citrus, caramel, and toasted malts. Tastes of caramel, floral hops, some citrus, and lightly fruity. Nice bitter finish. Some lacing left on the glass. A very nice Amber Ale.

Bottle courtesy of RiversideAK. Pours red with a white head. Smells of roses, earth, tea, some oranges. Tastes bitter with some sweet malty undertones. Palate is full bodied. Finish is lightly sweet.

Failr good regular amber, the hops are there. Rich and solid bodied, flavors of light wood and some caramel/pine hops with a roasted nut quality. Thanks to beerguy101 for the bottle.

Amber bronze. Hopps with notes of caramel malts in the nose. The flavor is balanced with a weight towards dry hops & spices. Finishes balanced, creamy, very nice malt focus.

Strong malty aroma backed with a lot of citrus hop. Dark, mostly mahogany, color with a white head that flattened promptly. Medium bodied with creamy, chewy carbonation. Starts with a lot of roasted malt, and not enough citrus hop to really balance it. On the plus side every flavor is very strong. There is some light stone fruit in the middle, and the finish is not really all that sweet. There is some definite bitter at the end. The hop profile is probably a lot more complicated than my nose. It is really amazing. More of a malty IPA than an amber?

Traded a single bottle during ABA’s beer bottle swap in Portland, OR. Pours a clear dark amber brew with a thick and lumpy off-white head that hardly goes away. Most excellent lacing. Aroma of light caramel malt, some peat, roasted nuts and a touch of flowery hops. Taste is slightly chalky, medium bodied with a dry carbonation. Flavors has characters of sour dough biscuits, some citrus zest and caramel. Finish is slightly dry, with a burnt sugar aftertaste. A good balanced amber ale.

Bottle (12oz). Shared with blankboy, GregClow and Tupalev, bottle courtesy of GregClow. Poured clear reddish brown with a small quick-diminishing tan head. Light roast malt aroma, with interesting melange of resiny oil-based paint, mushrooms, hops, milk chocolate and peat. Flavour started with burnt toffee malt sweetness, faintly of chocolate, then an almost harsh hop bitterness muscled in - also musty damp wood, roasted pine nuts; not as sweet as I must make it sound, a wonderfully complex brew, quite a surprise. Mouthfeel is constantly shifting - hoppy/malty/chocolate back to hops, then caramel - it’s a decent bodied brew, but with all the flavour action it seems somehow it should be fuller-bodied. The reminded me of a youthful, lighter version of the aged Elizabethan (Harvest) Ale we sample a few months back, just not so syrupy-sweet and more hops (less alcohol too). Very nice - highly recommended.