Pours with a clear red-amber body and a small, quick to fade, white head. Not much lace at all. Aroma is fruity with caramel, malts, buttery toast and graininess. A bit grassy too. Taste is strongly diacetyl with toast, caramel and dryness. Low residual sugars. Watery palate with light carbonation.

Pours ruby-tinged orange into a Hibernian glass. Off-white pancake batter head recedes leaving no lacing. Sweet biscuit and caramel aromas. Crisp and sweet upfront with a lasting sour malt and peppery hop finish.

Bottle. Pours a clear red with a small, sudsy looking head. Aromas are sweet with a little touch of spicy hops. Flavor is a kind of earthy and sweet maltiness with a little edge of pepper, ginger and grass. This is pretty simple, but pleasant enough.

Bottle from Porterhouse; nose of caramel. spices, and a little vanilla note; Copper red color with a small beige head; flavor a little disappointing, some caramel grainess, and a little hop bitterness.

Rerated 2/2009: Not really red, just orangish brown. Nice sweeter aroma this year. It has a weird varying density haed. Nice lacing. Flowery olfactory permiates the room. Nifty sparkling streams are constantly visible withing. Taste is not really bitter. But there is some back of throat linger which can be detected. Continuing the session a weak dull impression manifests itself on the palte.

Old rating: 12 oz brown bottle from the Beer Store in Moon. An affordable $2. Pop the lid and you get a somewhat stronger aroma than your typical yeasty uncooked bread dough. The smell even borders on the aroma of a strong ale, but not quite. The pour is orange brown with slight reddish tinge. Streaming carbonation is constantly abounding from inside this brew. Head is thin and alabaster. The taste is not offensive or overwhelming. I sense a little roasted malt along with the hint of bitterness associated with such malts. Nice medium carbonation that is satisfying during the drink. Finish is medium low lingering bitterness for a few moments after each sip, as anticipated with the small amount of roastyness that is present. Well behaved and even mannered. Enjoyable and easy to drink as any irish ale should be. Very little offensive personality makes this a repeatable brew. This is much better to drink as far as taste and palate goes when compared to Wexford Cream ale. As good as the better Irish ales I have tasted including Smithwisk’s and Hereford & Hops famous Cleary Red.

Bottle. Butter cream malt and peppery hops aroma. Reddish amber color with small head. Creamy butter malt flavor with light hops finish. Moderate carbonation. Nice middle of the road irish ale - not bad but nothing to set it apart.

Bottle. Nice red color, with small white head. Slight malt aroma, but not in flavor. Pretty decent I must say.

on tap-pours a light tan head with copper color. Aroma is malt, sweet. Taste is dark fruit, malt, dry.

I got this beer in my beer club. I have not been particularly impressed with the beers I have had from them before. Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a light ruby mahogany color with a small tan head that faded quickly. The aroma was sweet and tangy sour malts. The flavor is light sour malts with a hint of ripe fruity and a tangy finish.