Roots Organic Island Red

Brewed by Roots Organic Brewing
Style: Altbier
Portland, Oregon USA

22oz bottle. Pours hazy, deep red/brown. Thin white head, good lace. Smells fruity and cereal malty or maybe that’s earthy hops. Red fruit hoppy with a cereal malt backbone. Much better than I was expecting. Medium body, good carbonation.

Bomber poured a clear reddish amber with a lasting amber head. Aromas of carmel, toffee, orange and earthiness. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of carmel, light toffee, fruittiness and light earthiness with a smooth lightly dry malty finish.

Appearance: Pours a hazy, reddish-brown body with a wispy, white head. Smell: Scorched dry grains with a vague hint of caramel and dehydrated grasses. Taste: Slight caramel malts hints and a taste of roasted grain husks. Minor fruitiness. Medium-high earthy bitterness. Some grassiness. A continued biting bitterness on the finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: The reviewer below me, bhensonb, summed it up nicely and politely - "Chacon à son goût" indeed!

Bomber from Bottle Trek. Nice amber color with a respectable white head. Aroma is really roasted malt. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is roasted malt with a fair amount of hop. Dirt rather than floral. Finish is dirt, dry, pretty tasty. Bitter keeps building. Chacon a son gout.

Draft. A hazy dark amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet matly with strong notes of caramel. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of caramel as well as light notes of citrus, leading to a dry and very bitter finish.

Date: May 25, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: muddy red, fine beige head, drippy streaks of lace
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma with lots of bready character and big floral and earthy hops with a touch of citrus
Flavor: big bready malt flavor, lots of earthy hops keep it pretty dry, long bitter finish

Date: September 22, 2009
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub
aroma is much more subdued but the flavor is still rich as the botte,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

bottle from La Bodega. Clear copper red with a thick creamy head. Malt and earthy hops aroma. Mild caramel and straw taste with a dry finish.

Ah the roots of beer are being experienced again! Take me to an island and let me swim in the red sea of pleasure! The alt style is not overtop but a simple creature that many do not understand. Stop and smell the palm trees my friends for this life will pass you by. I’m overwhelmed in a sea of dark malty aromas and I’m taken to the Willy Wonka land of candy sugar and sweet goodness in my nose. I also smell some of the local bakery man pulling a fresh roll out of his oven. Now on to letting my tongue loose on this island of precious beer. Ah I am dancing about the island and playing in a sandbox full of caramel goodies and some beautiful dark fruits. I have heard it through the grape vine, the raisins dance thier way into my soul. It is the simple things in life my friends that please my frontal lobe. You may question a name like red stout but I do not. The red reflects the glowing color of my nose as I continue to drink. And Stout!!! Oh ho ho ho the stout is how I am like a short teapot ready to take on this brew. Islands in the brew stream, thats what I am. Cherrios to the oats of this wunderbar brew!