Landmark Colonel Hops Red Ale

Formerly brewed at Wagner Valley Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Lodi, New York USA

This Ale surprised me. Pour a thick dark amber red, explosive with hoppy aroma. As a red ale, it definitely had signs of an IPA. It takes your tastbuds for a journey and pushes your preconceptions of what a red ale is. Def. not a traditional REd. But is good if you like something different

Reddish tinge to this bottled beer. Good amount of lace and moderate head. It is hoppy more than malty, not a bad red. Malty aroma, doesn’t whiff of c-hop.

Pours with a dark red body, too dark to see through, and a small sticky head, Aroma is hops (piney, sweet, whatever) first then a slightly infected malty Irish Red behind that. Taste is actually kind of light, some spiky sweet hops and a malty backdrop. Light bodied with average carbonation. Just a plain old hop beer with maybe a slight infection.

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange-red with an average size lasting off-white head. Very mild sweet aroma with fruit, sugar and light hops. Flavour’s also sweet with fruit, sugar, caramel malt and very light hops -- it’s quite bland tasting. Average bodied. Just alright, it’s very mediocre.

(bottle - 12 oz) Nice red color with a puffy off-white head. Aroma is light and very floral with a good dose of hops. Flavor has a lot of strong hop notes at the beginning with a citrus and floral middle and a very hoppy, lingering, and bitter finish.

Beautiful ruby color with a thin tan head, no aroma to speak of, light hop flavor followed by some malt then hops again, nothign special, actually pretty bland. Very dissapointed.

12oz bottle, no date from jah noth, thank you Dan. Pours a clear ruby with a one finger fading beige head. Aroma of lightly toasted bread, a bit of sugar cookie, and fairly weak citrus hops. Flavor has a little bit more bitterness than the aroma led on with some light acidity and a mild bitter finish. Flavor not so great mainly because there is nothing going on. Light to medium body with moderate carbonation. Could have been much worse.

Not sure if I got an older bottle but this just arrived on the shelves at Beers of the World. Aroma is very subdued, no hoppy punch, just a little in the background. Frothy head subdues rather quickly on this medium red ale. Prickly sweet malts are present but this seemingly is lacking the citric twang of its predecessor -India Red Ale. Rather flat and bland. I am a bit disappointed.