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McMenamins Ruby Ale

McMenamins Breweries
United States of America


Vital Statistics

Release: Year Round
ABV: 4.39%
Original Gravity: 1.038 / 9.5° plato
Terminal Gravity: 1.005 / 1.3° plato
First released: March 1986

From the brewer

One of our most popular standards, we still make Ruby with the same aims we had when brewing the first batch back in March 1986: To create an ale light, crisp and refreshingly fruity. Great Western Premium 2-row and 42 pounds of Oregon-grown and processed raspberry puree is used to craft every colorful batch. Simple but delicious. Taste the original!

Average Scores

Overall: 57 (logged 7 times)
Draft: 57 (logged 7 times)

Who's been drinking this

It's fine, as a radler. I mean, it's not very beer like, and I would not order it again. Like of like brackish, grapefruit flavored water.
"Beer flavored water. Still better than water!"
This is basically a radler. Pleasant, but kind of generic. Fruit wise I thought ruby red grapefruit before I thought raspberry.
Opens juicy and like a grapefruit cocktail, before settling into a bit of funk and then a sweet-ish, cereal finish. Would be nice for a summer day; as it was, on this cold day it was perfectly decent.
This was terrible. I was warned. Twice. And then I ordered it anyway. Bad. Idea. I mean it was basically rotted carbonated raspberry flavored water. Ugh.