--Bottled, from Systembolaget. -- Clear copper brown, rich firm head. Peaty caramel aroma with some hay. Dry with light body and crisp, rounded mouthfeel. Toast and ash, dates and peat. Mid bitter finish. Drinkable and pleasant.

330ml Bottle - Dark brown with red tinges. Chocolatey aroma with of raisins and berries. Malty taste with raisins, chocolate, blackcurrant and some faint notes of wort. Enjoyable.

Malt and nuts aroma. More roasted malt taste than expected, some nuts again, red fruits.

Can from Flavourly. Pours a dark mahogany brown with a thin off-white head. Aromas of hazelnut and chocolate. Taste has some dark fruit and toffee. Decent for the style, if maybe darker than expected.

Can thanks to allmyvinyl. Appearance - deeper than expected. Dark brown to black with red chinks. Attractive, beige head. Nose - light molasses and honeycomb. Brown bread and dried fruit. Taste - light smoke, molasses and chewy toffee. Subtle raisins and honeycomb this time. Palate - medium bodied plus with a roasty finish. Overall - not on style, might have put this as a Mild to be honest. However, very enjoyable.

An ‘Irish red ale’, in itself more a marketing concept that a true traditional beer style, as interpreted by this microbrewery in the northeast of Ireland (just below Northern Ireland in fact), thanks to Craftmember for sharing. Snow white, thinnish, opening, uneven-bubbled head on a crystal clear, deep copper red beer – very copper indeed so living up to the artificial expectations surrounding this ‘semi-style’. Aroma of fresh brown bread and ‘pistolets’, breakfast toast, hard caramel without the sweetness, fainter hints of dry tea, peanuts, nutmeg, dry chicken stock cube, petrichor. Clean onset, no esteriness as such, lively and minerally carbonation, slick and slightly resinous mouthfeel, consistent with ABV; this streamlined brown-bready and toasty maltiness with slight peanutty edge continues well beyond the finish and in spite of a light herbal hop bitter note in the end (almost old dry tea-ish), is the last flavour that remains. Simple but effective, pleasantly toasty-bready without further ornaments, clean and streamlined – this beer indeed matches the expectations I have from an Irish red. Well done for what it intends to be.