Fighting Irish Red Ale
YellowBelly Brewery and Public House in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 🇨🇦
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.12
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Perhaps our most complex beer. It is big and malty with a very long finish, bitter forward with malt lift toward the end. Lightly carbonated and heavy in body. The small amount of roast barley in the mash contributes complex flavours like burnt toast, strawberry jam, coffee, chocolate, and leather. Deep garnet/ruby in colour, it is presented bright.
Hops: Nugget, East Kent Goldings, Willamette, Cluster
Grains: Pale Ale Malt, Light Crystal Malt, Roast Barley
Hops: Nugget, East Kent Goldings, Willamette, Cluster
Grains: Pale Ale Malt, Light Crystal Malt, Roast Barley
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Poured into a pint glass. Opaque deep red brown colour, good creamy beige head, good retention and lacing. Aroma roasted malt, caramel, dark dried fruit. Taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, some dark fruits, light spicy notes. Medium body, oily texture, average carbonation, lingering malty bittersweet taste, very nice.
Tried
from Draft
at
Yellowbelly Brewery & Public House
on 05 Jun 2026
at 23:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cola-like body with almost no white head. A bit off putting. Taste leads with roasted malt, caramel and some chocolate. Solid hint of citrus and earthy hops.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:10
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Flight at brewery. Pours clear reddish brown with off-white head. Aroma has some wheaty malt and burnt rubber. Flavour has damp crusty malts, some plastic. Not great.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2024
at 19:10
7/10
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Tried
on 11 Jan 2020
at 14:25
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
Draft at the source. Clearish amber color, off white head. Light caramel aroma. Taste is bittersweet toasted caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2017
at 18:54
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draft - Sweet toffee. Clearish mahogany with a small beige head. Bitter and twig with some burnt toffee.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Sep 2016
at 14:41
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
A reddish amber ale with a super thick frothy off white head, continuous gusher. In aroma, soapy grassy malt with herbaceous character, unpleasant, infected. In mouth, sweet malt with light boiled veggies, cloying, not good. OttBottShare Dec 15 2013.
Tried
on 15 Dec 2013
at 11:16