Red Rocket Ale
22oz bottle served into 2 types of glasses. 8 oz into 16oz tumbler & 6 oz into Grand Marnier snifter. Very nice appearance burnt red color, strong pour into each glass leaves a very tiny head in both glasses which rapidly disappears. Smell is somewhat faint,a little caramely maltiness combined with mild orangy notes and finishing off with a slight maple syrup aroma towards the end. This beer is a great interpretation of the style,Nice Malty sweet balance gives off great flavors of dried fruits and a faint touch of brown sugar to go with an extreme hop rush which is slightly toned down at first but really delivers a great spicy bitterness at the end. The mouthfeel on this beer is tremendous, Nice long hoppy bitterness with great carbonation is perfect. Drinkibility is quite good, Due to the nice sweet malty flavors and good hop balance, Even at 6.8 % abv I could most likely drink a couple bombers of this. All in all this is a great beer. This was my second offering from Bear Republic (1st was Racer 5 which rocks!) And I was really impressed. I would buy this all the time if it was available in RI.