Leinenkugels Red

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

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.

Alot like Killians but with a smoother and in my opinion, better taste. I would say this is one to keep in the fridge.

One of the better leinies, of the ones I have had. A great color with a nice white head. Very distinctive taste, reminds me of wood chips and campfires. Which is the roasted malt flavor coming out. A great red lager. A beer that I enjoy most around the campsite.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours amber with a white head. Aroma of sweet malts and hops. The flavor is sweet malts and mildly bitter. Good beer.