Roots Organic Island Red

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

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.

Draught at the brewpub. Hazy reddish brown. Citric hop aroma. Really dry with clean mouthfeel. Dominated by the citric hops, but roasty malt lures underneath. The dryness lifts up the hop flavour, but makes the finish almost inky.

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

Amber-red with some haze. Toasty, lightly smokey dark malt character. Fairly bitter, rooty (good one, Oakes!), earthy with great support from caramelly malts. The ingredients are well-matched. Surprised about the oats but everything goes so well in this beer it must be a good call.

On tap at Roots, Portland. Hazy deep red/brown colour. Lovely hoppy aroma, grapefruit and red berries. Good body of juicy malt holds for a second and then follows a lovely drying hop finish. the initial hit of malt and hop though is stunning. Great. Came to Portland suspicious of amber type beer, but now found 2 big winners, this and Laurelwood Organic Red. Lovely juicy red fruit malt.

Pours a hazy copper amber with a thin, spotty-lacing off-white head. Aroma of dry, grainy, toasty caramel malts with a touch of German yeast. Body starts semi-sweet with some light fruity notes and a touch of earthy bitterness before a drier thinner bitter finish. Seems too dry and bitter for an Altbier.

Pours reddish copper with a thin tan head. Smells of rich creamy malt, some spice. Tastes mildly bitter with a nice compliment of sweet malt and touches of earthiness on the finish.

Dark orange and red colors, almost brown, and very murky. Low carbonation it seems, and the first drink is sweet and thick bready meat and malt, before it turns into an onrush of bittering hops, unsweetened grains and sour brown ale qualities. Weird, for sure... and like a Flemish Sour without the sourness. Very thick, very creamy with light oats and coffee... the stout qualities are there but are really strange, and I don’t know if I would have picked them up had I not known there were oats in this beer.