Red Dog
Brewed with two barley malts and five varieties of American hops, Red Dog is a bold, yet uncommonly smooth beer. Golden in color, Red Dog is a full-flavored lager with medium body and crisp, refreshing finish. Introduced in 1994, Red Dog won the Gold for American-Style Lager/Ale or Cream at the 2002 Great American Beer Festival.
1.5
614 reviews
Milwaukee, United States
Community reviews
Reviewed from notes.
Most of the time, this one was consumed right out of the can. For reviewing purposes, here are my observations. This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy yellow color with a fair transparency about it as well. Carbonation was rapidly rising. There wasn’t any head.
The smell had some cooked corn with vegetal quality to it.
The taste was sweet and metallic.
On the palate, luckily what makes up for this one was a smooth crispness to roll over my tongue making it feel about a light to medium on the body.
Overall, a pale lager that’s not exactly tasty or has a good aroma. Don’t ask me why it has a decent mouthfeel. Weird.
Can at home from backlog notes 07. I don’t know why I thought this may be better than other macro crap. Yellow, corn, pale grainy malts, nothing worth doing ever again.
Ah, Red Dog. The beer my parents used to bribe me and my friends with to help clean up the cottage and yard when opening it up for the summer. Maybe its just good memories, but I don’t think it is that bad. Not much flavor at all, very watery, but nothing bad in the taste either. Either way, the only reason for me to ever drink it again would be to relive some old memories with some old friends.
The color was a very pale yellow. It formed a small head that quickly faded out. Red Dog has a light malt smell of cornflakes and hay. The palate is light and thin with light cereal like malt favor. At a little over three bucks for a six-pack of 16oz cans this one is good if you are really low on cash.
This is probably the worst beer I have ever tasted. I drank it on accident after a friend offered me some and I will try to avoid it in the future!
This beer is hard to find these days. It is an American pale lager with some distinctive qualities. The pour is yellow and the head is white, fizzy, and thin. However, the flavor has a little extra dryness and a noticeable hop presence. This is smooth but substantive for the style.
Twenty four ounce can for 75 cents. LIght gold pour with a massive white head. Aroma is not too bad. A little lemon, some metal. Flavor is pretty bad. I’ve been drinking some bad beers lately just to get some cheap ticks, and this beer has the worst flavor of all of them. It tastes like sweet metal corn water. I should have just bought an IPA and called it a day.
Can:
Pours clear, pale gold with a soapy white head.
Grain malt aroma.
Corn and grain taste....watery.
I didn’t know they even still made this....nor can I think of a reason why they do.
24 oz. can at 1UP in Denver. I poured some of the end into my buddy’s empty glass, so I can confirm that it does, in fact, look like a typical American pale lager. It also smells and tastes like one. Dry, with pale malts, a little grass, some mineral and metallic notes, and no skunk. Light-bodied, with fairly high carbonation. This is actually the first time I’ve ever tried this beer, somehow. It’s as expected.
Can. Clear pee color, very tiny white top. Nasty skunk smell. Taste is wet corn chips.
24 oz can. Finally, I get to rate this pig. I was just about to rate it from memory from my college days because I couldn’t seem to find it in a single can. Hello, Wisconsin! Well, it’s how I remember it. Pale piss yellow, quickly fading white head. Crappy adjunct lager that’s just a tick above Bud Light, Miller Lite, etc. Half-ounce for me, 23.5 ounces for the sink.
Have to hand it to this brew: it’s the only beer I’ve had capable of giving me a raging hangover immediately after drinking half a can. Sickly yellow, no head, aroma of rubbing alcohol and rotting corn, and tastes like rented malt liquor. Avoid at all costs. If you’re broke and desperate for a buzz, shell out the $2.50 for a bottle of Olde English. It’ll do the job and it’s a vast improvement over this.
More like the piss of a Red Dog. Honestly, it’s that damn bad. Even if you are broke, avoid this if it’s even still available.
If you’re in college with no money, then Red Dog is your beer! But if you like a good flavor with your beer, this is one to avoid. Red Dog pours a very pale yellow color and has the familiar scent that American Adjunct Lagers have. There is very little flavor almost to the point that it tastes like beer flavored water. On the upside it does drink fairly smooth and does not leave a bad after taste.
Can. A terrible beer meant for underage pounders. Looks and tastes like waste. I do not like this.
This beer never was very good in any way but my friends and I used to drink a lot of it in bottles because of the cool caps you could get.
Goes down smooth. Not sure of that a complement, really. No foul aftertaste or anything though. Passes the time waiting at a bus stop on the Panamerican highway for a bus to take me to David.
I remember when this beer was introduced and the blitz of advertising it produced. I drank it only once, on a trip from Chicago back to Kirksville. Creamier than most comparable beers, but that is about the only difference.
Used to drink this garbage in college. It was cheap, but that's about it. Choke it down and get ready for a nasty hangover.
gnore the beer snobs that trash this beer, their uber sophisticated palletes will never be able to appreciate the awesomeness of this beer. This beer won a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival last year for a reason, it’s one of the best American adjunct lagers on the planet. This beer pours from the can looking like liquid gold. The smell would probably bring Bob Mckenzie to his knees. It tastes like God just gave me a golden shower. Overall this is one of the easiest drinking beers ever created and should be a constant in everyones beer rotation. Good luck finding a better beer for the price, because it isn’t about to happen.
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a clear pale gold with about a half finger of white head. Aroma of grains, slightly skunky. Taste is light sweet. Corn, grains, a little skunk and...some caramel? Yeah there is absolutely some caramel in there. Medium bodied with a creamy and slightly sticky texture. Lively carbonation and a decently long finish. Overall, not bad. I wont seek it out, but I’ll drink this one while watching the election results roll in.
12oz bottle: Appearance is golden brown with a quick fading white head. Aroma is of stale malt. Taste is generic lager bad minus the aluminum can taste. Drinkable but but nothing more.
I didn’t know they still made this brew. I remember when it first came out, and I haven’t seen it in such a long time, until my beer buddy cheap gave me a can. So, I drank it straight from the 12oz can. Nothing much different here, typical macro pale lager, I still enjoy these beers. Actually, I found it to be rahter tasty, but then again, I was really in a mood for a beer.
Another bad effort at they say pale lager I say light malt liquor. Nothing redeeming in this beer.
Can’t say no to free beer. My father-in-law bought this because it had a dog on the label. That might have been the best feature...
Can to pint (from notes). This is cheap, shitty beer that tastes like it. No redeeming qualities here, and I’m not going to waste my time describing how it offends my senses.
I remember moving to the US from Belgium, circa ’98, underage and my enighbor in Tampa buying me 12-packs of this beer. I reckon my first foray into US beers other than Bud.
Une pale très typique, pas mauvaise mais qui reste dans un style faiblard. Dorée comme toujours au col blanc on y retrouve ce petit côté houblonné type des bières de base US utilisant des houblons nobles US. Fini reste sec et métallique sans grande surprise. Plus un bon souvenir qu’une expérience gustative.
Can @ the First Annual Rocky Mountain Malt Liquor Tasting. A bit hazy, light yellow appearance with a white head. Corny, pale malty, bullshit aroma. Somewhat stale, pale malty, fairly drinkable flavor. YUMZZ
Used to drink this gem all the time in college when cost was the priority. Sample as a "bonus" beer at the Smuttynose tasting at Ale Wine & Spirits on 4/27/12. Clear yellow pour with a medium white head. Aroma of farts, dankness, malt and lager yeast. Malty flavor with lager yeast and a bit of crisp hop.
Sample at Ale Wine & Spirits in Powell on 04/27/2012. Clear yellow pour with a thin and fizzy white head that burns away quickly. Spotty lacing. Aroma of grainy malt and mild hops. Light body with flavors of malt, grain corn and slight hops. The finish is short and tastes of sweet corn. Not terrible.