Phelan Irish Red
Tri-City Brewing Company in Bay City, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Rotating|
Score
6.60
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shrubber (15840) reviewed Phelan Irish Red from Tri-City Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Light toffee malt, and weedy grass aroma. Dark amber with moderate head. Mildly sweet toffee malt, and moderately bitter quinine/hay flavor. Okay body. A bit rough.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle: Pours clear, bubbled, deep copper-red with a short tan head. Slightly mineral, toffee malt aroma. Taste is toffee malt and slightly bitter mineral water. Gets a bit better after warming, but remains pretty watery and weak.....and never really loses that unpleasant bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured into a mug, the appearance was a semi-dark ruby red color with a finger and a half’s worth of white foamy head that slid off at a fairly slow pace. Clingy foamy lace clung fairly nice.
The aroma had some toast, biscuit, herbal to floral hop qualities, light amounts of dark bread with a subtle woody presence. Light earthiness.
The flavor presented all of the previously mentioned aromas together, semi-sweet with a decent balancing herbal quality. Aftertaste was malty and so was the finish.
The palate was almost medium bodied, seemed to sit just a tad under for the body. Pretty sessionable and the ABV felt appropriate.
Overall, pretty nice Irish red ale that I could come back to.
superspak (10160) reviewed Phelan Irish Red from Tri-City Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, no bottle dating. Pours slightly hazy deep ruby red, light copper/brown color with a 2 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, toffee, roast, plum, pear, apple, and herbal/yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, and toasted biscuit; with lighter notes of nuttiness, toffee, roast, plum, pear, apple, and herbal/yeast earthiness. Light herbal/roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, light nuttiness/toffee, herbal, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Slightly drying from hop/roast bitterness. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/bready/grainy mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4,8%. Overall this is a very nice Irish red ale. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready malt and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; very smooth, clean, and easy to drink. Nicely rich and clean on malt flavors; with well restrained yeast/hop notes. A very enjoyable offering, and impressive style example.