Odd Notion - Irish Red Ale (Spring 08)
Magic Hat Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.70
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Notes from 2/6/2009 Baby growler tucked away for too long, paired up with in season notes. Geek... must... rate. Filtered iced tea body, a little darker once it settles. Moderately spongy half inch of oatmeal head; Sporadic lace. Lavender, ginger, heather, stale cinnamon, toasty malt. Cardamom I'm really not familiar with, but Wiki says it's a relative of ginger, so I'm not totally loopy. :P Flip top growlers are the best, know that. :) Taste is initially a shadowy representation of what I smelled, but no where near as potent. Heather(or something like it)comes up first, a little ginger, white sugar, then a flush of base malt running through till the finish. Carbonation is on the lower end of average, but there doesn't seem to be any oxidation that I can detect(spices +2). Malt on the finish makes it slightly slightly dry if anything. It's gone. It's gone. It's long gone. Magic Hat makes great beers when they try.
Tried
from Growler
on 31 Dec 2024
at 21:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Courtesy of CigarCityBrew. Pours amber with off white head. The aroma is all over the place with rich roasty malts, sweet malts, licorice, flower pedals, nutmeg, cherries and picnic basket. Wow, lots going on. The taste starts rich sweet and roasty with mild berry fruitiness, some rounded off tartness, mild earthiness, honey, flower pedals, sweet licorice candy, dark hard candy and ending with mild malt sweetness and grainy maltiness. Everything comes together pretty nicely for me here. Yum.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jun 2008
at 08:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Capital Ale House - Downtown. Clear amber body with a large creamy tan head. Sweet caramel and fruit aroma. Sweet grainy fruit flavor, light roasted malt and some spicy hints. Certainly odd for an irish red. Medium body with moderately high carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2008
at 20:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle. Deep red-brown color. Clovy sweet aroma. The taste is rich, dry, and spicy. An Irish Red wouldn’t have been my first guess, but i guess it fits that category well enough. Certainly has a spicy amber malt kick to it, almost tangy. Cardamom really comes through. A pretty interesting beer, worth a try.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2008
at 18:58
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Deep copper red body, thin buff head. Aroma of brown sugar, grape, and toast, earthy hops and spice. I couldn’t identify the spice but see it is cardamom. The cardamom is the most distinctive characteristic of the otherwise light, bready, cerealy body. I’m not a fan.
Tried
on 25 Feb 2008
at 19:32
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with ruby highlights and a large light brown head. The aroma was vaguely sour and tangy. The flavor was bitter, tangy and sour followed by a light roasty malt element and a hint of bakers chocolate on the tangy finish. Not an Irish ale at all, and not that good either.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2008
at 23:04