Leinenkugels Red

Brewed by Leinenkugel Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: American Dark Lager
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

I had a couple of these while I was visiting my parents over the Christmas holiday (12/24-25/2006). Unfortunately, I was under the weather for most of my stay, so I didn’t really get to have much beer other than a bottle of two of this and couple bottles of Great Lakes Dortmunder... Leinenkugel’s Red Lager is a deep amber-red color with a nice beige head. The aroma and flavor a slightly sweet with a nice toasted malt and caramel flavor. The bitterness is just enough to balance out this beer. The mouthfeel is pretty smooth. This beer also has a medium body. I’ve always enjoyed Leinenkugel beer, including Lienie’s Red. I used to also get the Red on draught a lot when I was in college from a bar nearby that always had it, but Leinenkugel’s is becoming harder and harder to find in the area on draught... 12 oz bottle.

Bottle. A beautiful reddish amber with medium head. A little fizzy for my tastes -- almost champagne-esque. Relatively balanced with vanilla sweetness but bitterness overtakes. Didn’t detect any particularly noticeable flavors. Almost a session beer -- at least it’s light and not too objectionable.

12 oz bottle. Every time I try another beer by Leinie’s I get even more dissapointed. However, I must say that this is probably the best beer Leinie makes. I love the color, a beautiful light red, but that is about all I can really say about this beer. Aroma and flavor both sport sweet malty carmel and vanilla. Dry and astringent aftertaste. Mild metallic bitterness.

Note: There’s actually less of a review in here than normal. Don’t bother reading it if you’re looking for actual information. =) Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas indeed! It is my sincere hope that you are with family and friends for this holiday, and that you invest yourself in it as a human if not spiritually, and most importantly, that there is at least some kind of cold beer at your side to keep you and your hobby company. It is a holiday to be thankful, I think, and to ponder on humility and substance. With so much material wealth flying about in the days leading to Christmas I often forget the deeper teleology behind Christmas, not even as far as the strict theological take, but the philosophical bits and pieces that trail behind the ornamentation and caroling. With that in mind, on Christmas Day I partook in a little Leinenkugels Red. It is a very poor beer, I should say, for such a grand occasion as Christmas. But the company I kept on that day is far from discerning with regards to beer. “If it’s tabbed its drinkable.” The crux of the beer supply was Miller and Foster but there were a few scattered red bottle caps in the crowd, and with a cock of the head I grabbed one and popped the lid. I even drank straight from the bottle. And in doing so I became a better part of the company – respectful, traditional and open enough to share a beer for the sake of sharing a beer. I think it was very much in line with the essence of the day. The Red is a very malty beer, red and bubbly like any cheap lager, but it went down like eggnog because everyone else was willing to toast with it. By raising my own bottle I shed my trained pretentiousness and guzzled it down with the rest in a symbolic act of comraderie that seems so ridiculous from the outside but at the time throbs with heartfelt compassion and unmentioned understanding. So here’s to a good holiday, and a beer that being totally unexciting was perfect for the occasion of celebration with family.

12oz Bottle pours out a amber topped with a small off white head. A very nice aroma off caramel of toffee very sweat. The tast not as good as the aroma. But not to bad overall.

Light amber little head. Mild toffee aroma a bit of vanilla. Rather smells of an English Bitter. Thin and tart with some astringency. Bleh.

the stand by beer of the group....OK lacing...muddled but exceptable taste...easy drinking...tainted love on the jukebox.

This is the best beer Leinie’s make. One of my all time favorites. To me the flavor is robust and never disappoints. When I see that red canoe tap handle I know that I’m right were I need to be.