Friday 11 May 2012

North Coast Red Seal APA

OK North Coast - seriously now, this is your last chance to justify the hype.

How to put this? Ah yes - this doesn't.

It's an reddish amber colour with an underdeveloped head in the glass, and gives off notes primarily of caramel to the nose. Taste-wise.. quite similar really. Pretty bland despite its talk of hops, not a great deal of fruitiness, slight metallic aftertaste, puts me in mind of a muted American pale ale, or perhaps even an amber ale really.

What's there is solid enough I guess but it's just nothing to get excited over whatsoever. You could be drinking LC Pale Ale or Lupulus or Tuatara or countless other examples and be way ahead of this. That's enough out of you, North Coast - until I find your Rasputin back on tap somewhere again. 6.0

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