Papago El Diablo Rojo

Formerly brewed at Sonoran Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Phoenix, Arizona USA

Burnt orange amber color with a white head. Toasty and caramel malt aroma. Caramel, diacetyl flavors with acrid floral hop notes in the flavor. Resinous mouthcoating finish. Mouthfeel is medium heavy.

Taster at Stone 9th Anniversary Festival. Reddish-brown pour, aroma is very IPA-like hoppy. A pleasant surprise, this "double-red" was quite good if you are in a hoppy mood, which I was today.

Deep chestnut red-brown. Fruity, west coast hop aroma. A rather tart and somewhat immature apa flavor with strong tannic character. Long bitter finish. Didn’t compare favorably with some of the other fine APA/AIPA’s that I had tonight. On tap at Papago.

Draught @ Papago. True amber pour, with a medium fluffy head. Good lacing. Aroma is bursting with fresh resiny hops, spicy hops, and toffee. Flavor is loads of hops and a nice malt backbone with out being too much, which made the beer different from an IPA or a 2IPA, and less malty that a hoppy barley wine. Alcohol is masked very well. Very lingering hop finish, and a great mouth feel. Excellent and very delicious beer.

A nice hazy amber color. Big bold hoppy aroma but not too overwhelming. Has a hint of orange peel and grapefruit. Mouthfeel is smooth and quaffable. Overall nicely balanced. It’s so drinkable that the alcohol content can sneek up on you. Still another favorite from papago.

A simply wonderful double red ale. Much like a double IPA but only darker and a little bit more malty. Wonderfully balanced. Strong in alcohol and hops. Didn’t get that nasty grapefruit type taste that you get in a lot of big American hoppy beers. Another nice job by my favorite drinking establishment. Just updated my review as the beer seems to have gotten hoppier (if that is possible) over the past year. Great beer!!!

Draught @ Papago

The beer fresh from the tap to my eager hands and face pours a somewhat hazy reddish-amber color with a portly semi-creamy light tan head that slowly dissipates leaving a silky sheet of lace to obscure the glass. Nose has a citrus like crispness, clean and fresh, hints of hops with a nice sweet malt aroma to back it up; start is slightly sweet with a nice grain profile, the top moderate in feel. Finish has a brisk acidic bite and the hops dynamic in their spiciness, and the 8.2 percent ABV makes itself known with a nice tummy warming feel, quite dry with a long lasting aftertaste, a really tasty brew tis true. Ron Kloth is a Master Brewer and a true “Beer Lovers Beer Lover”, and I am proud to say a good friend of mine, geez could I be a bit biased about Papago Beers and all the magnificent people who work there, and “Hell Yeah” frequent the establishment? Lol

Perhaps a little too dark to be a Double IPA, but this definitely fits the super hoppy bill.

This beer is a lightly hazy deep amber color, it has a frothy thin pale head atop it. The aroma is reminiscent of grapefruit, orange, and pine in the finish. The taste is sweet and fruity up front, with notes of candied orange peel, grapefruit, and tangerines. The finish moves from a strong herbal/ pine note to a solid bitterness that slowly fades with and astringent herbal character. This is quite well balanced between competing sweet caramalized malt notes and the hop notes that change between citrus domined, then herbal pine notes, and of course a solid bitterness. The hops clearly dominate this beer, and quite tasty, and it quite enjoyable.