Beer Review - Deschutes Brewing Red Chair NWPA

Brewery: Deschutes Brewing

Location: Bend, OR

Beer Name: Red Chair NWPA

Style: IPA

ABV: 6.2%

IBU: 60

The beer was poured from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours a coppery orange with ruby edges. A frothy white head develops with good retention and soft lacing. The aroma faintly hints of bready malt and sweet caramel that is enveloped quickly with a hop blast of floral notes, pine, citrus, and earth. The flavor is hop forward, with hints of pine, grass, grapefruit, apricot, but balanced well with a bready, toffee sweet malt backbone. A medium body beer with ample carbonation

Overall a great take on an IPA. An ok label, not sure what red chairs have to do with beer, but to each their own. Found it sort of strange the beer wasn’t a truer red color with red in the name, but overall it was a nice looking beer. The aroma was pleasant and well rounded. The flavors melded well with each other. Nice earthy tinges that lead into a thump of citrus notes hovering nicely over a biscuity, caramel base. Very interesting, sort of blurs the lines of a IPA with its hop profile and a Pale ale with its malty characteristics. A very nice sipper.

Score

Label/Cap	6/10
Appearance	6/10
Aroma	7/10
Flavor	8/10
Overall	7/10
Total	34/50

Judgment Scale
  0-9 Not worth your $
10-19 A OK Beer
20-29 A Good Beer
30-39 A Great Beer
40-44 A All-star Beer
45-50 A Hall of Fame Beer