Crested Butte Red Lady Ale

Formerly brewed at Crested Butte Brewing
Style: American Pale Ale
Englewood, Colorado USA

Date: 03/09/1996

malt aroma, spicy malt flavor, hoppy bitter finish

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 2/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.3/5.0
Score: 4
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Draught. Body is medium amber. Aroma is lightly malty (cookie), lightly hoppy (resin, grapefruit), with a note of butter/diacetyl. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation.

Bottle. Pours clear tawny with a small, frothy, off-white head, diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel, straw), average hops (flowers, perfume), average yeast (dough, broth) with notes of apple and plum. Medium bodied, thin texture, soft carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness and bitterness, moderate acidity.

Soft and light with a slight alcoholic nip. Flowery and citrusy hops in the background. Weak sweetness. Drinkable, but not complex or exciting.

Cloudy reddish brown,tan head. Antiseptic nose. Lightly malty antiseptic taste that covers any hops there may be

Pour is clear light amber with a thin almost nonexistant white head...light grainy nose, but not very aromatic in the first place...lightly sweet biscuity flavors...thin and watery with not much going on...

12 ounce bottle from BeerandBlues2
Pours red with a bit of carbonation. Pretty much clear. A thin layer of off white foam.
The aroma is all malt. Very biscuity. No hops. What up wit dat?
Malt is way upfront, but there’s a neutral bitterness. that makes it very drinkable.
Medium/light body. Below avarage carbonation. Dry finish.
It doesn’t taste bad. I’d say its boring, but it’s a million times better the lots of shitty beers I’ve had.

A good beer. Nicely hopped. Also very good on tap.