My Month of Flagships: KarlStraussBeer Red Trolley Ale -- A true throwback to an 'Irish red ale' era JimVorel remembers fondly. craftbeer beertwitter FlagshipFebruary
I remember a time in my beer-drinking life when the idea of “Irish red ale” was particularly attractive to me. Having never been a fan of the macro lagers one could expect to find at any given house party as a 21-year-old college student, my gateway into the “better beer” world often came in the form of amber-colored, lightly malty beers that offered a gentle introduction.
Defining “Irish red ale,” though, isn’t necessarily the easiest thing for a beer geek to do. There are afrom the U.K., but in the hands of U.S. breweries the style can often mean whatever any given brewery decides it should. I’ve had Irish red ales that were extremely hoppy, or so pale they were barely amber; beers that were sticky sweet or almost dry as a bone. There’s little consensus on what the name implies.
It is, therefore, a style defined by subtlety and balance, and it makes for an unusual addition to this flagship series in the sense that it’s perhaps the only beer here that I’ve actually never sampled before. I therefore bring no real expectations or preconceptions into the following tasting: This is as objective as it gets.
You know that a recipe/description is probably on the older side when it incorporates phrases like “warm-fermented” to imply ale yeast. That seems fitting for Red Trolley, which is a beer that prides itself on being old-school in profile.
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