Casco Bay Riptide Red Ale

Brewed by Casco Bay Brewing (Shipyard Brewing Co.)
Style: Irish Ale
Portland, Maine USA

Slight caramel aroma, not much else. Deep copper color with little carbonation and tan head. Enjoyable balanced taste at first, then a weird chalky taste, then finishes nicely bitter. Not a whole lot memorable that’s good.

Bottle. Diactyl bomb! The diactyl is so strong in the aroma it was really tough to choke it down. Flavor is malty with diactyl again being dominant.

Bottle from shipyard brewery. Deep red color with hoppy flavor. Cream color head. Not a well rounded beer in my opinion. Go for the old thumper.

bit of a sweet grainy malt aroma, has a good grainy malt flavor, virtually no aftertaste, pretty smooth brew, not too bad.

Decent beer. Pours a nice red color with a think tan head. Aroma is surprisingly hoppy, but the core malt is very present as well. Flavor is a bit bitter, a bit musty, and very malty. Went fine with a steak I was eating, but suffered a little on its own.

bottle. pours a nice deep amber red. deep malty Aroma. Pretty good Irish amber. Taste is malt loaded. Toasty & roasty. Light fruit presence. Balanced & decent

Maybe there is something in the water I dont like with this brewery - had the same funky sweet, thin and ester filled weak malt that the winter seasonal had. Kind of a nutty caramel malt with some fruit and floral. Reflecting on this drink after using it to boil up a few brats prior to BBQ’ing - the problem with both Casco Bay drinks I have tried is a musty essence that dominates the aroma and taste. They both have a flavor of what I can only describe as being similiar to what your Grandma’s couch might taste like - old, musty, dusty - just kind of gross.

Nice looking ale, clear bright red. Fruity toffee and hop aroma. Sweet and fruity with well balanced bitterness. Decent hop flavor. Has some astringency. Not bad but too sweet for my tastes.