Ridgeway Insanely Bad Elf Imperial Red Ale

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

Hoppier than their other barleywine, with hints of candied citrus. Slightly better, but still too thin and alcoholic to be taken seriously. More time on your beer and less on the labels.

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

These elfs are hit or miss for me. This one was a miss. Way too sweet for my taste.....reminded me of strong apple juice. I like barleywines, but not with all the extra fruit and sugars added. Amber-medium orange appearance. Insane fits the description well. Has potential if toned down a bit. This one is for the naughty, not the nice.

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

It pours light-golden with thick white head and copious lace. An aroma of barley malts, hops, lemon-citrus, some bread and yeast, and spiciness. The mouthfeel is thin and watery. Flavors of caramel malts, hops, citrusy, bread/yeast, alcohol, and spiciness. It's good, but nothing special.

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

Pours a dark copper with a small white head that disappears quickly leaving a nice amount of lace. Aroma is all about the sweetness--sugar, caramel, malt; really not much in the way of hops at all. Taste is much the same. The sweetness just doesn't relent. Alcohol definitely present the entire time. Not the best of barleywines but will definitely leave you feeling pretty warm.

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

now you listen to me! .. . 2007 version, 12oz bottle, Orlando hotel room, 9/02/09 10pm .. . pours a dark tawny copper .. . pretty impressive lacing for an 11% brew .. lots of sweetness, rum, boiling brown sugar flavors .. mellow nicely .. . a great lil nightcap .. kinda surprised, meh .. Nancy Grace has to be a Honey Badger dressed in human clothes..just nicer and more fun to be with...

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

This was the most clean and clear Eng. barleywine i have ever seen. It was very crisp and very sweet. It was a pleasant surprise to find this in Hawaii. The scent was very clean, not hoppy but very mildly malted. It was a nice amber color with a light head. Not as explosive as I like them to be but i was sold ont his as well. It is a Barley wine style but it sure will remind you of a tight sweet red ale for sure. If this is in the store, it will be in my cart. I am now a fan of Ridgeway.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

This poured a copper color with a fading small white head. The aroma contains some alcohol, caramel, and some citrus. Not much of an aroma to speak of. The flavor is really sweet with molasses, candi sugar, caramel and honey. The palate is oddly a little thin despite the syrupy mouthfeel. Overall not horrible but not in the league of alot of barleywines.

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

Pours a clear, appealing reddish-amber with a little bit of white head. Aroma is strong and more fruity than malty, like a strong cider or brandy. Flavor is surprisingly sweet, but not cloying; fruity, mainly apple, and lacking the kind of alcohol bite I expected from such a high-gravity beer. Texture is tingly and lively, and it leaves a pleasingly sweet aftertaste with just a hint of alcohol bitterness.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

aww thats horriable... very bold and rich in flavor. has kind of a blood taste to it with notes of mint... more notes of tomato juice, spice, and copper... its weird, for an english barleywine and for its intence flavor i would expeced it to be darker.. but its very much see-throgh.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

they did a good job on naming the beer...it is insanely bad. Ok, maybe not that bad but it certainly wasn’t good. It pours with a deep red-amber body topped by a thin to medium thick, off-white head with some lacing left behind. It’s cloyingly sweet and malty with anote of slightly rotten fruit, some alcohol esters as well as a very slight not of christmas spices. Full bodied and warming.