Ballast Point Nitro Red Velvet
Impossibly reddish in color (due to the beets) with nitro cascade fading into a pink cap of stable foam, great clarity. Seeing the beer in the glass shows the obvious resemblance to a slice of red velvet cake (red cake on the bottom topped with a layer of creamy white frosting). But the similarities don’t end there. The aroma is dominated by chocolate with earthy notes of beets and subtle wafts of roast coco. The flavor is similar to the aroma but with faint roast and hop bitterness coming in at the end balance it out, not cloying or overly sweet. The mouthfeel is medium and the finish is luxuriously smooth. It’s dessert served in a pint glass!
3.2
218 reviews
San Diego, United States
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Red pour, smelled like chocolate. Wasn't as sweet as I thought it would be. Not horrific, but a novelty for sure. Would not drink again. Had a weird earthy/spice note at the finish. Meh.
Pours a fantastic fade from brick red to cherry with a thick foamy Guinness-like white head. A beautiful beer. Looks like a foam-topped Shirley Temple. Aroma is roasted malt, a touch of chocolate and I guess beets. Very smooth and creamy. Moderately sweet cocoa with some finishing hops. Easy drinking. Guinness, Old Speckled Hen and this are all cousins. I enjoyed this very much.
Lovely beer except for the flavor! Pours a really cool red w/ a long standing white head & good lacing. The aroma has a bit of a chocolate cake feel to it tho fairly mild. The flavor is nearly nonexistent but the creamy mouthfeel on the palate is quite nice. There's a touch of chocolate in the taste but seems to get drowned out by a touch of hops & just watery in general. Disappointing considering they got most of the aspects right!
Bottle at home, all alone. Interesting beer. A clear, pink stout. Doesn't taste like a stout. Creamy with some coffee and chocolate notes. Drinkable beer but don't call it a stout.
Bottle. Vanilla sugar, caramel malt, and straw aroma. Reddish amber with small but long lasting head. Moderately sweet vanilla chocolate caramel malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor.. Okay body.
Weird. Quite sweet and earthy from the beets. Doesn't really work here. Pour is a slightly red dark colour with a frothy beige head. Chocolate is nice and works well with the roast but the beer is underlying with a sweetness throughout that annoys me. The finish is earthy, beety, sweet and slightly bitter. Oddball beer.
On tap clear red with a thick creamy head. Aroma is vanilla and earthy. Taste is medium sweet and medium bitter.
Overwrought shrink wrapped label on a standard 12 oz longneck. Pink Champale, misty pour. No initial head, though a head effervesces. Sweet, candyish aroma - something I can't place, but familiar -- fruity. Gah. Thin, herbal, sweet, nasty. Unpleasantly bitter in the back. Drain pour. ABC Liquors, Betton.
Poured clear, deep red with a creamy, 1-finger white head. Mild aroma of chocolate with a woody, vegetable note from the beets. Body is medium-to-full, with a smooth and creamy feel from the nitrogen. Mildly dry finish. Woody, slightly tart flavor, with a note of chocolate underneath that lingers at the back.
Red/orange pour, cloudy, thin dense white layer of khaki head. Aroma has creamy quality, sweet vanilla, doughy. Smells like cake. Creamy mouthfeel due to nitro, very soft carbonation, dry finish. Flavor has harsh sugar, syrupy cocoa, bitter forward. Otherwise the taste closely matches the aroma. Harsh, not a great stout but kudos to the red velvet cake resemblance.
B-. Pours a red color with cherry head. Subtle red velvet flavor, chocolate
Bottle: (very cool artwork on a plastic wrap)
Slightly hazy, red/orange/amber with a small, creamy, off-white head.
Chocolate, cream, biscuit scent.
Taste is mildly bitter, rooty/earthy....over chocolate malt and light cream.
Doesn't deliver on several fronts.....it's not very Stout, rather watery and weak.....It's not sweet like a proper cake, and whatever Nitro method they used is useless....Can it with a Widget and I'll give it a second look, otherwise, it's one and done for me.
Bottle: Earthy feel with may come from the beets. Otherwise, a sweet and almost fruity flavor. Smooth and tasty.
On tap at BP Scripps Ranch. As Red Velvet Cake, 5.3%. Pours red with pinkish head. Chocolate, vanilla, some fruity notes, sweet. Medium bodied.
Flattest nitro that I have ever had! Code is gibberish so I don’t know if it is just old. Sweet dessert flavor. Reddish "red velvet" color.
Draught at the taproom in Little Italy, San Diego.
Hazy orange coloured with a small off-white head.
Sweet and light roasted aroma of caramel and chocolate.
Fruity and light roasted flavour of caramel, chocolate and vanilla.
Sweet finish.
Too sweet.
bottle. Mahogany red with one finger head. Fairly light bodied for the style. Medium sweetness, moderate cocoa/milk chocolate. Good, and fairly unique, but definitely gimmicky too. File under "drink once"
dopest bottle art ive ever seen. the beer smells wonderful, but its very light and kinda watery. great flavor just could use more punch. super drinkable. its super odd tho, cus at first you think its THICC but then its watery. i really cant describe it
Rose colored with a fluffy, pillowy head of eggshell colored foam. Smells like a beer soaked red velvet cake. Sweet cocoa powder reigns in the most in both the aroma and flavor. Vanilla comes through at the end. Very smooth and bit thin in a watery sorta way. Vary unique.
Truly strange that this beer exists. It is quite red and it really does tate exactly like red velvet cake. Slightly sweet and creamy, dessert, not too intense.
A very cool plastic wrapped bottle. The pour is orange and light - not very red. Aroma is faint. Body is smooth. Some earth notes, maybe beet. The mouthfeel is a little hot and I think that’s from the beets. It seems balanced, just very mild. The nitro is very smooth. I like it but it’s not as unusual as I was expecting.
bottled - cloudy reddish orange color. Nice chocolatey aroma. Slight chocolate flavor. Just ok. Awesome bottle.
Una Sweet Stout de color rojizo anaranjado de baja carbonatacion y espuma. Aroma a guindas, ciruelas maduras, castañas tostadas en fogón con notas de betarragas. Sabor a chocolate con leche, castañas tostadas y final cítrico suave.
Red with lasting pink head. Earthy chocolate nose and palate with a vague roastiness. Interesting
From tap at ADT. Bizarre! At first thought the taps were crossed on account of the color - clear reddish orange. Has a full pinkish head. Nose suggests red velvet cake as advertised. Flavors also bring sweet vanilla, some malt. Light bodied, short finish. An interesting novelty.
Draft. Pours creamy red with a nice creamy head. The palate is light and creamy. The taste is beets and sweet caramel malt. Interesting. Not good tho tho.
Sampled on draft this beer poured a dark pink-red color with a large creamy pink head that lingered forever and left incredible lacing. The aroma was sweet sugar, cream and was a bit malty. The flavor was sweet cream, strong artificial sugar and a touch of vanilla. Very long finish. Medium bodied and smooth. Not good.
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Restrained aroma in a deep red pour. Laid back balance with hints of chocolate candy in a flat metallic body and minimally bitter finish.
Tap at Public House. Red with strawberry milk head. Smells like a malted milkshake. Sweet but also has a fair amount of hops. Creamy.