Rock Art American Red Ale

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Morrisville, Vermont USA

Bottle. Clear reddish dark brown, ppoured very fizy with a quickly vanishing tan head. Looks like a root beer. Aroma of dark cakey malt (like a lighter German chocolate cake), some molasses and dried berry and citrus scents. Flavor was off-sweet and malty, with some tangy hops in the back and a bit of a lemony or orangey tartness on the finish. Palate a little thin and overcarbonated. Not bad, not mind blowing.

Certainly looks like a red. Malty nose is a surprise based on their other offerings. Nice mixed, sweet malty flavors as well. Then it kinda falls flat. Good effort overall.

Quite a surprise. The aroma is of medium roastiness, red malt, and indeed some black chocolate. The appearance is of a blackish amber. The flavor is sweet and caramely and with a dash of hops. What it lacks however is a powerful finish, it does maintain a lingering taste of carmel and red malt but a bolder bang at the end would have done more.

Draught: Hazy red in the glass. Aroma and flavor both offer the same in the form of a sweet malty flavor. Finish had some but not much in the way of hops. Good beer.

Better for me than many of the reviews I see here. Cerrtainly not overcarbonated, perhaps a bad bottle for Davecooks? Dark red, near brown, with persistent off-white head and pleasant lacing. Nose of malt, tending towards candy sugar. Firm malt up front and throughout. Finished clean with a mild hop bite.

Bottled. Via trade with Doclock. I find the label a bit ironic- I’ve been drinking micro brewed beer from the southwest for sixteen years or so and the first one with a Kokopelli on the label comes from Vermont, go figure. Oh my God, can you say CARBONATION? It looks and sounds like a Coke when you pour it. You’d be hard pressed to convince me it was a beer if you where handing the glass to me. Malty, caramel aromas. Very thin malt flavor. Overly carbonated. Understated flavor, no hops. Dry cardboard aftertaste.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours dark with an off-white head. Aroma of roast and caramel. Flavor is smooth, sweet, but a little watered down.

Adecent red ale. Nice deep, dark red color and crisp malty taste. Good, but not great.