Red Arrow Tap Room
216 S Washington St
Naperville, IL, United States of America
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This was stunningly good. Fine stout with some sweetness and barrel-aged notes. And I'll note, I tend to hate barrel-aged beers. But this was really good.
Draft
This is weird. It looks dark with a stout head. But the flavor is like a solid red ale. It is very confusing to me. But I did like it.
Nitro Draft
This is really just a very normal stout. Good, nowhere near great. Just the sort of thing you drink but don't rate.
Draft
Smokey in smell and taste, backed with a sour/bitter flavor. Not really appealing to me.
Draft
Off-cabbage scent. Not bad, I feel like it could be meatier in flavor.
Draft
There was some confusion about this beer (the text description said whiskey, the label graphic said rum). We kind of felt this tasted like rum, with molassessy and uncomplicated liquor with a very smooth, balanced roast stout underneath. Better than I remember the other Hoppin' Frog heavies being.
Draft
Strong bourbon flavors, with plum-date overtones. Stout is a little overwhelmed, but not quite as much as it was with the Alter.
Draft
This was gross. Not at all what I'd expect from a Baltic Porter, this poured dark amber. Flavor was rooty and herbal. Roast coffee on top. None of the smooth lactic quality I'd expect from a Baltic.
Draft
Clean, grassy bitterness with the slightly sweet notes of a German Pils. Something wine-like about the brightness of this beer. I did like it quite a bit.
Draft
A solid dark lager, medium bodied and roasty with a creamy finish. Reminded me of German darks.
Draft
This is a porter, dark and bitter, but it also reminds me of the Continental dark beers which are thin and almost soda-like. It's not as roasty and thick as I feel it should be (though that might be my limitations, rather than any other)
Bottle
Tastes like a watermelon Jolly Rancher, with faint overtones of wood smoke and vanilla. If that sound weird to you, well, it was. But somehow I also kind of enjoyed it.
Draft
Really weird. Tastes like hoppy dishwater at first, high and dry and with a weird lemon dinginess. After a while you realize that the astringency is being accentuated by vanilla, and then it feels more like a novelty than unpleasant.
Draft
Dry, light, brown-porter. Slightly watery, but also creamy with quite a bit of roast. Slightly sour in an English porter kind of way.
Draft
Caramel bourbon in your face here. The underlying stout is entirely overwhelmed by the barrel here; honestly it could have been anything. That's probably not great.
Draft
Very candy-like, almond joy type beer. Of this style, this isn't the best by a long shot. It's a bit too sweet, it's got a slightly artificial quality about the coconut. But it certainly wasn't bad.
Draft
I had a sip and had to look up what was in this, which I guess is orange. It actually tastes shockingly fake, like potpourri and anise and really feels syrupy. This on top of a thick, overly sweet stout. If the Goose Island Midnight Orange had gone very wrong, this would be it.
Draft
It's not bad, and has good Red hints, but instead of dry, clear, and bitter or is slightly malty with an almost fruit backing
Draft