North Coast Red Seal Ale

Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: American Pale Ale
Fort Bragg, California USA

On tap at Magoos. Listed as Pale Ale but closer to a good Bitter. Nice balance with neither playing dominant role. Cloudy amber in color, not much head but some lacing

Pours a clear tawny with a short lived white head. Aroma is mostly caramel malt, with a trace of hops. Taste is semi-sweet malt upfront with hops on the finish. Mouthfeel is nice. Pretty strait-forward and well rounded brew, good session ale for sure.

A copper red ale with an aroma of caramel and perhaps some citrus. You can taste the malt and caramel .. with a mild bitter finish.

Poured from 12oz. Golden amber with reddish hue, nice medium off white head. Nose of grapefruit, other citrus. The malts and hops come through in the taste. Overall a nice beer from a soild brewery.

This reddish copper ale poured with a foamy beige head and a toffee aroma. This is indeed a full-bodied ale with lots of variegated malt flavor and some subtly pleasant hop bitterness. The carbonation leaves a tingling sensation on the palate.

Nice balanced aroma of floral hops, caramel, and figs. It has an enormous foamy tan head that forms pits as it settles. Red in color. It tastes a little thin, but big malty spicy caramel with mild bitterness. A slight alcohol aroma as you drink. Good malt profile for an APA. More of a hoppy amber ale reallly.

12 oz. poured amber, small white head. Nice balance; more flavor than the name and alc % would indicate. One of the better brews sampled last night among stiff competition.

Clear amber with a small off white head. Smells of citrus and piny hops and malt sweetness. Caramely malts in the flavours, otherwise just refreshing fruity hops. Lively carbonated, medium body. Very drinkable.