Coronado Red Devil

Brewed by Coronado Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Coronado, California USA

Pours unusually dark with a lingering head. Great lacing. Smells like ruby red grapefruit. Full and viscous with soft and slightly creamy effers. A huge malt backbone supports the jagged hop infusion. Not too sweet and very warming although alcohol not abrasive. Strict citrus rind on the finish lingers.

Bottle. Poured a deep red with a beige head, with tons of lace. Aroma of citrus hops, fruit, grass, sweet bready malt. Taste is also very hoppy, with lots of fruit, citrus and sweet apple malty fruit. Finish is sweet and bitter. Overall, a great imperial red, very close to an IIPA. Very enjoyable and hoppy ale.

Tap at Pap. I was very happy with this. Nose is sweet appley hops, like Cascade but less grassy. Malt gives that perfect cream and sugar balance as apropos for a red. Flavor is the same, with a nice Hop Head Red-type bite of crisp WC IPA. A great sub for a dubs. Also: color is so dark it looks like wolf blood but it really tastes like a red! Very great!

Bomber. I am really enjoying this brewery. I think the bottle I have must be a newer release from this original entry, this listing shows it as a 10.7% and my bottle says 9%. Bottle date appears to be 022609. Pours nice and deep red, small head. Really good caramel and malt flavors. A small tiny hint of cherry and chocolate.

22 oz bottle. Dark brown with a foamy balsa head. Nose is bread, lemon-lime and toffee. Medium light with crisp carb; a bit oily. Taste is citrus peel, caramel and quinine. Bitter finish with buttered toast and marmalade. I would’ve never guessed this was 10.7%.

Sampled April 2009
A vigorous pour produces a large, four-finger thick, darkish tan colored head with amber notes. The beer is a dark amber color that shows a brilliantly clear, dark cherry color when held up to the light. The aroma is quite noticeably hoppy with a citrus-sap character to it, lots of lychee aromatics, candied citrus notes, solid grapefruit peel aromatics as well as a strong malt character that consists of caramelized toasted malt, a touch of sweet tea, biscuit notes, crushed whole grain crackers and a touch of a metallic note in the finish. The hop character also contributes a pine-sap edge to the nose that mixes in quite well with the fruitier hop notes. As I adjust to the aroma I start to actually get a touch of roasted character in the nose.

The beer is thick and chewy feeling as it rests on my tongue and it has lots of caramelized notes that make this beer taste sweet. It is not cloying though as it is balanced well by herbal and pine flavors as well as a touch of burnt grain flavors towards the finish (this last is a bit more prominent than it was in the nose). This beer is not aggressively bitter, but does have a bite to it at times. It can also have a green hop, herbal astringency to it at times in the finish. The texture of this beer is easily approaching Barleywine territory; viscous, chewy and with a full mouthfeel, but it doesn’t really get syrupy, which is good. There seems to be a touch of butterscotch to the flavor too, though this is pretty subtle.

This is a nice beer, the heavy crystal malt character is spot on for the style, but doesn’t really do all that much for me. I would have doubled the base malt and hops, but left the character / specialty grain bill the same level as in the regular version of this amber beer. Still this is pretty tasty and enjoyable and was certainly worth a try.

22 oz. Pours dark mahogany with medium beige head. Aroma is caramel ,fruit ,cherry maybe. taste is rich and malty. with more focus on hops . Finishes more hoppy and bitter than malty.

Bottle Pours out a dark amber topped with a sand head. Aroma of citrus and floral hops along with some cheese. Tast was more of the hops plenty of bitterness and a little caramell to help the balance a little.