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McMenamins Ruby Ale

McMenamins Breweries
United States of America


Vital Statistics

Release: Year Round
ABV: 4.13%
Bitterness: 5 IBU
Original Gravity: 1.04 / 10° plato
Terminal Gravity: 1.008 / 2.1° plato
Color: 4 SRM
First released: March 1986

From the brewer

We still make Ruby with the same aims we had when brewing the first batch back in 1986: Create an ale that's light, crisp and refreshingly fruity. It’s made with Great Western Premium 2-Row malt and seven pounds of Oregon-grown raspberry puree per barrel. For over 30 years, Ruby has been admired by a devoted fan base and remains as she first was: simple and delicious.

Average Scores

Overall: 59 (logged 8 times)
Draft: 59 (logged 8 times)

Who's been drinking this

Raspberry, lightly sweet, cereal finish. Really pleasant to drink.
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.