Orlando Brewing Right On Red

Brewed by Orlando Brewing
Style: Irish Ale
Orlando, Florida USA

Name: Red Ale
Date: 11/17/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear dark copper, fine beige head, streaks of drippy lace, sweet bready aroma with a light toasted character, rich malt flavor, lots of caramel sweetness, nice toasted leads to a light bitter finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Bright copper colour. Very caramelly, maybe some diacetyl in the nose. Sweet palate with a good dose of diacetyl, caramel. Slight dryness in the finish but I couldn’t get this away from me fast enough. I hate butterbeer.

on tap-pours a white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is funky malt and caramel, yeast. Taste is funky malt and caramel-sweet, secondary hops bite. OK carbonation. Had these (this one and others) at the brewery, something amiss. 3.0-.3 aroma. 2.7

Draft... Clear amber ale with a small, fluffy, off-white head. Grainy, caramel nose. Malty-sweet flavor with little to no hop character. Medium-bodied with a 2%-milk mouthfeel and soft carbonation. Finishes lightly bitter and grassy.

Draft sample at the brewpub. Poured clear reddish brown color with an average creamy white head that was mostky lasting with excellent lacing. Moderate sweet toasted aroma. Medium body. Medium toasted bittersweet flavor with an average smooth bittersweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met.

12 oz bottle. Pour is light amber with a small head even with a hard pour. Taste is malty with some orange and tangerine. Lightly hopped with a flowery flavor. Some yeastiness and caramel make it drinkable and somewhat interesting.

On tap at the brewery. Pours a translucent ruby amber with a medium creamy/lacing white head. Aroma of fresh hops, toffee, caramel, floral notes and citrus. Flavor of hops, mixed citrus, caramel, toffee and fresh hops.

On tap at the Florida Brewers Guild BeerFest 2009. This was not listed as their Right On Red and smell and tastes different too. Pours clear garnet with off white head. The aroma is hoppy with what smells like pine, maybe spicy hops . . . not sure, the hops are there but seem a bit vague. The hops are followed quickly by some solid roastiness. The taste is much the same with an initial hop pulse to go along with an adequate amount of roasty malts and some malt sweetness in the background. I get no sense of the organic wet cardboard off notes I usually taste and smell with these organic brews. All of the ingredients seem pretty fresh. Tasty beer.
Earlier Rating: 3/12/2008 Total Score: 3
Pours kind of deep copper leaning toward amber hues with moderate, somewhat lasting, off white head. The aroma is sweet, malty and mildly roasty. Overall a mild meek aroma. The taste is roasted 90L to 120L crystal malts and sort of gets watery about midway. Starts to taste and feel like unfermented lightly roasted wort. There is some vague hoppiness too working with the malts. Not too bad really considering the style.