Curry
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Hey Guys,
Having just visited the Redoak Caf for the first time, I thought it would be good to share my thoughts bearing in mind Im no expert.
The first thing you should know is they have lots of seasonals, 17 to be exact. Coupled with the standard menu of 12 makes for a lot of choice.
Anyway I managed to down 7 plus a few mouthfuls of a couple more; my thoughts:
Bavarian Pilsener: a very easy beer to drink, very crisp but all in all not a wow beer.
Organic Pale Ale: you can definitely taste the fruity character coming out of the hops, easy to drink, but once again nothing special
Hefeweizen: this looked more like a Cristalweizen than a Hefeweizen, my least favourite due to the lack of taste
Rauch Bier: let it be know that I had never had a Rauch styled beer before, and I was very curious when the waitress said it will taste like smoked salmon. WOW! I have never tasted anything like this before; the smoked flavour is very strong. Definitely my pick of the night.
St Nicholas: as soon as I drank this beer it reminded me of a Belgium that I had tried, as my memory was starting to go at this point it became hard for me to remember but I likened it to the Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit. A strong beer at 9.2%
Weizen Dopplebock: now this is a much better weizen, you can definitely taste the banana esters coming out and its strong at 8.4%
Belgium Choc-Cherry Stout: full of flavour is the only way to describe this one and they are not wrong when they say it has a black forest cake aroma to it.
Of the other ones I tried with only a few mouthfuls:
Honey Ale: A very light and easy to drink beer, rather crisp.
Framboise Froment: lots of taste to this one but I dont think I could drink many of them. Im not sure if they were trying to do a lambic with this one.
Blackberry Hefeweizen: I must give them credit for this one as I have never tried a flavoured weizen before and once again this one was full of flavour, not bad really.
All in all my thoughts of the place were positive when it came to the beer and service. My advice would be to bypass the standard stock beers and head straight to the unique styles like the Blackberry Hefeweizen or the Rauch. Ill second what Boots said about the staff, they are definitely engaged and want to talk about there product. My only downside with the place was the food, we elected against the dinner menu as the choice wasnt that great and the price was a bit on the high side. We did however have some bar snacks which were okay but nothing great. My recommendation would be to drink some beers, walk two doors down to Oportos then come back for some more beers.
Two links that you might want to look at before you go:
Regular beer Menu
Special Beer Menu
Cheers
Curry
Having just visited the Redoak Caf for the first time, I thought it would be good to share my thoughts bearing in mind Im no expert.
The first thing you should know is they have lots of seasonals, 17 to be exact. Coupled with the standard menu of 12 makes for a lot of choice.
Anyway I managed to down 7 plus a few mouthfuls of a couple more; my thoughts:
Bavarian Pilsener: a very easy beer to drink, very crisp but all in all not a wow beer.
Organic Pale Ale: you can definitely taste the fruity character coming out of the hops, easy to drink, but once again nothing special
Hefeweizen: this looked more like a Cristalweizen than a Hefeweizen, my least favourite due to the lack of taste
Rauch Bier: let it be know that I had never had a Rauch styled beer before, and I was very curious when the waitress said it will taste like smoked salmon. WOW! I have never tasted anything like this before; the smoked flavour is very strong. Definitely my pick of the night.
St Nicholas: as soon as I drank this beer it reminded me of a Belgium that I had tried, as my memory was starting to go at this point it became hard for me to remember but I likened it to the Hoegaarden Forbidden Fruit. A strong beer at 9.2%
Weizen Dopplebock: now this is a much better weizen, you can definitely taste the banana esters coming out and its strong at 8.4%
Belgium Choc-Cherry Stout: full of flavour is the only way to describe this one and they are not wrong when they say it has a black forest cake aroma to it.
Of the other ones I tried with only a few mouthfuls:
Honey Ale: A very light and easy to drink beer, rather crisp.
Framboise Froment: lots of taste to this one but I dont think I could drink many of them. Im not sure if they were trying to do a lambic with this one.
Blackberry Hefeweizen: I must give them credit for this one as I have never tried a flavoured weizen before and once again this one was full of flavour, not bad really.
All in all my thoughts of the place were positive when it came to the beer and service. My advice would be to bypass the standard stock beers and head straight to the unique styles like the Blackberry Hefeweizen or the Rauch. Ill second what Boots said about the staff, they are definitely engaged and want to talk about there product. My only downside with the place was the food, we elected against the dinner menu as the choice wasnt that great and the price was a bit on the high side. We did however have some bar snacks which were okay but nothing great. My recommendation would be to drink some beers, walk two doors down to Oportos then come back for some more beers.
Two links that you might want to look at before you go:
Regular beer Menu
Special Beer Menu
Cheers
Curry
