Bell's This One Goes to 11 Ale
This One Goes to 11 Ale opens with bright, juicy aromas such as tropical fruits & ripe cherries, largely derived from massive kettle & dry-hop additions of Southern Hemisphere hop varieties such as Galaxy, Motueka, and Summer. The citrus & resinous pine notes of the Pacific Northwest hop family are also well represented, making their presence known through Simcoe, Citra, and the newly released Mosaic varietal, just to name a few. A wide range of specialty malts anchor the hops to this IMPERIAL RED ALE, contrasting the assertive bitterness & juicy aromatics with a robust, toasty depth of flavor. Fermented with Bell’s signature house ale yeast, This One Goes to 11 Ale finishes with a lingering warmth.
3.7
293 reviews
Comstock, United States
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Bottle. Caramel malt aroma with notes of cherry, grapefruit and pine resiny hops. Pours cloudy red colored with a thin off white head that has excellent retention and good lacing. Starts with caramel malt and cherry flavors. Finishes dry and bitter with grapefruit hop citrus and pine resiny hop flavors. Really nice red.
Chestnut brown pour, small head, some lacing. Mild sweet fruity aroma. Lots of sweetness in this one. Plum, cherry. Caramel malts. Pine hop profile. It’s a little sweet, but a pretty enjoyable flavor profile.
Pours an iced tea brown with a small off white head. Bold malty aroma with notes of pine. Creamy body with some lacing. Tastes of caramel malt flavor with some pine and an alcohol warmth but not harsh or too boozy. Feels like a barley wine. Pretty enjoyable. Nice lingering malty aftertaste.
12 oz bottle with a 31 October 2019 bottling date served in a lager glass.
Looks, smells and tastes as expected for an "Imperial Red IPA". It's bold, complex, a bit boozy, and (moderately for style) bitter. The body is hazy and copper colored, with a durable off-white head.
Medium-full body with medium carbonation.
12 ounce bottle - $3.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia.
Appearance: Pours a lightly clouded, rusty-toned copper body with an inch or so of glistening, yellow-beige foam.
Smell: Moderately toasted breadcrusts, vibrantly spiced toffee and an oozing sheen of pine-scented resin. Pithy citrus rinds, sun-dried grasses, alcohol-dunked tropical fruit.
Taste: Malty, sweet flavors of breadcrusts, crackling caramel, honey and toffee. Piquant grapefruit, nectarines and apricot scattered with some stray grassiness. Sticky, sharp resins cut with some veins of raw, unflinching alcohol, turning towards a sturdy bitterness and keen hotness for its final moments, thrashing wildly like a wounded serpent.
Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium carbonation. Well warming, chewy mouthfeel.
Overall: Big and brash. Mostly brash. A blistering red given the barleywine once-over.
Bottle from Holiday Market shared at Yggdrasil. Pours a clear copper, amber with a finger of off-white foam that lingers then dissipates. Big toasted caramel aromas with tropical fruit and citrus aromas. Bitter and fruity on the palate. Booziness is there. Warming finish with more citrus, pineapple and pine.
The beer poured with copper color and murky body. The head was understandably small in size topping out at one finger thick at its peak. The smell was earthy and fruity-sweet, with aromas of damp earth, cherry, apricot, honey, and a touch of cinnamon. The taste was that of apricots, honey, caramel, and apples, There was a boozy warmth to the finish. The body felt dense and sticky. A nice sipper on this Christmas eve.
It pours a rather hazy deep amber with a tan head. Head retention is excellent. It has an initial citrus and pine aroma. There are some tropical notes of pineapple and a hint of mango. There are very low bready elements in the background. The tropical fruits flavors are strong in the flavor with some pineapple, mango, grapefruit and pine. It has a bit of a bite to it with some low cherry and bread. It has a medium full body with strong, but not hot, alcohol warming. The bitterness takes on a dank note that is long lasting. Overall, a great combination of aromas and flavors with well balanced alcohol warming.
Bottle poured a hazy reddish amber with a small lasting amber head. Aromas of caramel, fruitiness, dankness, light pine and a hint of earthiness. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp with a smooth dry finish. Flavors of caramel, fruitiness, light pine and a hint of earthiness with a smooth dry moderately bitter lingering fruity caramel finish.
Bottle. Moderate to heavy malt and hop aromas of roasted, caramel, and pine, light dough for the yeast, with date, brown sugar and alcohol in the background. Head is average sized, beige, with excellent lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is hazy reddish amber. Flavor starts moderately sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet and lightly to moderately bitter. Palate is medium to full, oily, with a soft to lively carbonation and a heavily alcoholic finish. Excellent Imperial Red Ale, woth everything that's great about the style.
Bottle. It poured a reddish color with an off-white head. The aroma was of malts, fruits, oak and caramel. The taste was similar to the aroma with more malts, fruits, oak, caramel, pine, hops, alcohol with medium carbonation and a nice smooth aftertaste. Good stuff.
tap. pretty kick butt imperial red ale. very strong, perfect cold weather beer.
Strong and vibrant aroma fills the area as this beer is poured. Pine, citrus, sweet malts.
Color is dark red-amber topped by a thick off-white head with a slightly red tint. The head has good retention for a beer this strong, hanging around for a good 10 minutes before it drops to a thick cap. It leaves disconnected icicles of lacing down the glass. As you drink, the lacing becomes more prominent, and sheets down the glass after each sip on the drinking side, while remaining on the opposite side.
Nicely balanced flavor up front between the hops (citrus and pine) and the caramel malts. The malts are on equal footing with the hops, but it never gets close to sweet territory. The middle is where the bitterness begins, carrying through the finish, and lingering pleasantly on the tongue in the aftertaste.
The mouth feel has a moderate (toward the substantial side) body, with a smoothness interrupted by the hops bitterness.
Overall, an extremely well-balanced ale where there are strong hops flavoring inter-playing with substantial malts taste, and a nicely bittered finish. There is very little alcohol in the taste; no alcohol burn, but a definite alcohol effect hits before you get to the bottom of the glass! Big beer, big taste, big like!
Blood orange red. Sweet malty aroma aged no hops. Heavy caramel sweet, cherry, pine, kinda messy honestly.
Really tasty. An easy sipper but still enjoyable. A bit harsh and sticky in the finish.
Bottle (Oct 31, 2019 bottling). Head is initially small, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is cloudy medium amber. Aroma is moderately malty (cookie, toasted grain, caramel), moderately hoppy (apricot, grapefruit, resin), with notes of alcohol, dried papaya. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately to heavily bitter. Medium to full body, velvety/syrupy texture, lively carbonation, heavily alcoholic.
Somewhat similar to Double Two Hearted, but perhaps a bit more barleywine-ish and booze-centric. Nice enough aroma, but it's downhill from there. Unfocused, kitchen sink-ish. Hard to drink more than a few sips even though I can't really call it unbalanced...just too much of everything. A scatterbrained sledgehammer of sugar, alcohol, and bitterness.
12oz bottle from Three Cellars in the Falls with a bottle date of 4 weeks ago. Missed this one a few years back when it was out, so happy to catch it this time. Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is borderline classic American Strong - sweet red malts, tangy stone fruits, oranges. Quite hoppy. Enjoyed that! Taste is of sweet malts, tangy fruits, oranges, with strong hop evidence. More sugary than the promise of the nose. Almost syrupy. Medium bodied with a bit of an alcohol presence, the blend is solid. Finishes to the tangy fruity sweet side of bittersweet. This is a borderline classic American Strong ale. A half tick down from what was hoped, but still enjoyable. 14
Finding it hard to differentiate this Imperial Red Ale from a Barleywine, but it’s pretty tasty regardless. Deep veins of caramel, toast, and cherry are offset by citrus, pine, and a spicy wood undertone. Moderate bitterness on the finish leads to a warm, thick fade. Not bad.
Pours a ruby color with a large creamy white head. Aroma is very sweet, candy like, with alcohol mixed in. Sweet, malty, some fruit, oak and caramel. Bitterness evens it out nicely. Alcohol is more well hidden than I would have thought.
Bottle. Slightly cloudy copper color. Some tropical hop with pine and some big malt notes, caramel. Medium body. Some warming alcohol. This is a big beer.
Bottle - turbid amber with a thick, well-sustained lace - soft carbonation and supple malt texture - starts off sweet, with caramelized maltiness and some fruitier malt making way for a growing hop presence that presents spiciness, pine, and citrus that swells to dramatic proportions in the finish - despite how big of a beer it is, in typical Bells fashion, it manages to be elegant somehow - even so, the finish is a bit much, but perhaps that is unavoidable in such a monster of a beer.
Light red appearance with caramel yellow hues. Extreme floral/citrus hop aroma. Mouthfeel isn’t overly heavy, but kicks you in the back of the throat with fresh hop bitterness.
Tastes fresh but overwhelming
12oz bottle pours a muddy caramel brown with no head. Nose has malt, cardboard, orange, some honey comb. Flavor is sticky with caramel, orange, pine, paper, cardboard. Sticky finish. Like a faded out barleywine.
Bottle at the RateBeer DC tasting. Hazy brownish with beige head. Aromas of malt, dark fruit, oak. Tastes of malt, dark fruit, oak, caramel. Light body with a dry finish.
Caramel and plenty of booze like fermented orange juice on your night stand. Sweet and some light tang. Bottle.
15th January 2016
That’ll be me 20K then @ ChrisO’s. Hazy amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is airy, semi dry and has decent fine carbonation. Tangy caramel malts. Spicy dried fruit. Caramelly dry finish. Spicy aniseed linger. Nice.
Bottle shared at Kenny’s 20K, thanks to King Kenny, 15/01/16.
Hazed orange amber topped with a decent beige covering.
Nose is tangy citric rinds, spice, caramel, fruit cake, bitter orange marmalade.
Taste comprises fruit loaf, dates, toffee, spice, light floral notes, orange pith.
Medium + bodied, fine carbonation, light boosty close.
Decent stronge, kind of a DIPA x-over, well balanced.
Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ madmitch76 - 20K Tasting ] - chriso & Boudicca House, London.
[ As Bells This One Goes to 11 Ale ].
Clear medium orange color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, pale malt, sweet malt, fruity malt, dried fruit, alcohol, oxidide notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, dried fruit, pale malt, fruity malt, alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160115]
Bottle shared at Kenny’s 20k tasting - London. Cheers, Ken! Pours clear amber with a creamy, white head. The nose holds pine, berries and orange peel. Medium sweet flavour with some earthy bitterness, orange rind, grains. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Hard piney and earthy bitterness to finish, with more old and rindy citrus fruits. Eh, just so so.
Bottle shared at the Kenny 20K mega monster tasting. 15/01/2016. Many thanks to Kenny for this one. Hazed golden orange coloured pour with a small white head. Aroma is spicy lemon, perfume, zesty lemon, honey, earthy grains. Flavour is composed of hay, earthy grains, honey, zesty lemon, Palate is sticky, honey, moderate carbonation, spicy. Some jammy fruits In the finish. Ok.