Thunder Canyon Roadrunner Red Lager

pours a brown shade of amber with a off white head. it has a really sweet grainy aroma with hints of biscuits and fruit. the palate is overwhelmingly sweet grains with some more caramel and fruitiness. there’s a light hoppy bitterness present along with a dry herbal finish. mild hoppy skunkiness lingers in the aftertaste behind the malt. medium body with a creamy mouth feel.

Tap @ Brewery. Aroma had a decent malty sweetness and also noticable was an aluminum aroma as well. Red body with off white head. Medium sweet malted jucie flavor that wasn’t all bad. Easy on the palate was good with the meal.

On tap @ brewery - Pours a clear deep copper color with a small light tan head. Aroma is light toasted caramel malt. Flavor is much of the same. Has a slight lingering dry malt aftertaste. Medium body. A decent beer.

This beer is brilliantly clear and is almost brown in color, it certainly is not really red. It is topped by a small, wispy, tan colored head. The aroma is quite malty, with notes of toasty grain, biscuit-like notes, some hints of chocolate even, perhaps some hints of fruit as well as some herbal hop aromatics.

The taste is lightly sweet and has a hint of raisin and some other fruit-like notes to it. There is a fair amount of malt character here, but not as much as the aroma would have suggested. Some balancing herbal hop character is noticeable and there is a distinct bitterness in the finish that is there just enough to provide a crispness. This has a pretty nice malt profile, but I really wish that the flavor had lived up to the aromatic promises.