Gaelic Ale
Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.54
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A deep amber colored American ale, featuring a rich malty body. Cascade and Willamette hops add a complex hop flavor and aroma. This ale is exceptionally balanced between malty sweetness and delicate hop bitterness.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Received in trade from limesmut and mikesgroove, thanks for the opportunity guys. Pours a deep amber color with a nice size dirty white head that stick around a bit and laces the glass all the way down. Aroma is caramel malty with some citrusy hops in there as well. I smell loads of caramel and some mineral in the background. Tastes malty, caramel and hops round it out nicely. Maybe a touch sweet. Mouthfeel is quite creamy, medium body that finishes quite dry but lingers with bitterness in the finish. Decent brew for an American amber, I’m not sure what makes it a Gaelic Ale though. There are better brews out there, but this one is pretty good, I’d drink one if it was offered to me.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2011
at 20:17
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Had on tap @ Carolina Ale house in Columbia, SC. The bartender couldn’t describe what type of beer this was. I was nicely surprised. Nice amber color, with thick frothy head that didn’t last to long but did and some lacing. Nice hop taste up front but was smooth out by a malty finish. I well done amber ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Nov 2010
at 14:49
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle. Foggy amber-brown color, minimal oily head. Spicy, pungent amber malt and resiny, piny hop aroma. A rather well done Amber, with some chewy hop character and a steady malt backbone that brings to mind a full bodied American ESB. Rather astringent and bitter up front. Sugary crystal malts in the finish. OK, but not one I’d actively seek out again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2010
at 22:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Purchased in Nashville on my trip there. Pours a clean copper colour with a beautiful creamy beige head that has great retention and lacing. Hardly any carbonation. Full aromas of dark fruits (dates, raisins), malts (caramel, roasted) and nuts (hazelnuts, almonds). Crisp refreshing mouthfeel and medium-bodied. The hops shows up in the taste (not too bitter) but more flavourful. Nutty, caramel, roasted, bready and buttery (but all in a soft way). A really nice easy-drinking amber ale that has a great full nose.
Tried
on 14 Jun 2010
at 16:57
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
maybe i got a bad beer, and im hoping that was the case, but this was like a macro trying to be cool, ie "blue moon". bland lager flavor thats way too carbonated, no real distinctive flavor or character, a drain pour, not even good for a lawnmower beer.
Tried
on 07 Jun 2010
at 15:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A gift from my uncle Marty for St Patrick’s Day. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark red-orange color with a large orange-white head that lingered. The aroma was sweet, tart and fruity with an underling caramel presence. The flavor was bitter and tart with a fairly strong fruity hop presence and undertones of lemon and toasted caramel. Long finish. Medium body. Very pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2010
at 20:32
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A hazy dark red beer with a t hin tan head. The aroma has strong notes of hops lending it citrusy notes, but also notes of fruits leaning on being over ripe and hence very sweet on a malty back ground. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of malt, caramel, over ripe fruits, and medium notes of hops, the latter lending it notes of citrus, leading to a very bitter finish. The over ripe fruits gives it a good body. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2009
at 06:38