Bear Republic Red Rocket Ale

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

22oz bottle from SuperMarket liquors in Fort Collins
Appearance: Dark amber with a nice sized off-white head and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, caramel and dark fruits
Taste: Toasted malts, fruity, caramel with a bitter finish
A nice easy drinking beer. Plenty of caramel but not cloying.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Bomber pours a nice clear amber with big tan head due to the bottle conditioning and decent lacing. The aroma has dry roasted malts, mild caramelization, a hint of earthiness and very little hop presence. I think it’s a pine hop note. The taste begins aggressive with pine hop bitterness and dry nearly astringent roasted malts. The flavor becomes more sweet and rich with malts as the midway point is reached. I get caramel malts more roasted malts and also mixed in there is a nice peaty earthiness. This is an aggressive flavored beer. It would be interesting to let this age a year or so and try again.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Pours out ice tea color with a tint of red. Aroma is very mild with a hint of hop. The mouthfeel is a little thin. The taste is okay normal run of the mill ale with just a slight note of hops.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Pours a cloudy copper red with no head what so ever. Decently carbonated and it unfiltered. Aroma is hoppy with a hints of pine. Little apple on the nose as well. Taste is very bready with hints of hops and malts. Dry and watered down, not much of a body. A bit on the boozy side as well. A bit over hyped in this case. Not exactly the best out there.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

And then I went back for this amber. Another bold colored, this one amber colored. Big tightly frothy white head. Good staying power. Noce lacing on glass and atop the creamy, mildly effervecsent body. Sweet malt and a mild floral-citric hop profile dance well.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

22 oz brown bottle. Billed as a bastardized Scottish Red, this beer deliberately flouts style conventions. Unfiltered and bottle conditioned. 6.8% abv. Pours a deep mahogany with a thin tan head. Good lace. Color is between Scottish ale and typical red ale. Less foam than expected after a straight pour into pint shakers. Deep, complex aroma excites the palate. Both malt and hops in abundance. Hops are more floral than citrus. Fairly low alcohol is easily masked by dominant malt flavor profile typical of Scottish ale. Very smooth on the palate, due to syrupy malt and low carbonation. Pleasure continues to develop after the swallow as some faintly smoky and pine-like flavors outlast the sweet malt. Like it, love it, want more of it.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

pours brownish red, slightly hazy with moderate lasting head. Flavor is a pleasant blend of hops, grapefruit with malty yeast. After flavor is moderately long lasting bitter with a long slow follow through. This is a definite "find it, buy it" brew .

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

A satisfying, hoppy red ale. Whatever the style origins, this is a nice beer with a lot of flavor. It’s aggressively hopped, a sweet blend of citric, floral and spruce notes. The malt brings some deeper caramel flavors, toasty sweet bread and burnt sugars. There’s a good yeast flavor that dries out the finish beyond the already dry tone of the beer. The mouthfeel is creamy and a bit oily with hops. The beer looks great, carmine liquid with a thick layer of off-white foam. Bear Republic makes good beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Bottled@Monks Café Sveavägen, Stockholm. Deep rubyish amber brown colour with mediumsized creamy/foamy off-white head. Aroma is a bunch of citrus fruits, some nectar, mild caramel malts as well as some slight chocolate and mild toasted notes. Flavour is quite much the same along with some dark dry fruits and mild herbal notes. Pleasantly balanced and not all too radical.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle, 6.8% ABV, RBNAG 2009 in Vatlandsvåg. Beautiful reddish brown colour, low off-white head. Excellent aroma and flavour with vinous and oaky notes, also strong notes of American hops. Very good! ("Beer of the Gathering" for me.)