Red Harvest Stout
Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Special Out of Production|
Score
5.66
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This beer celebrates SAMHAIN (saw-wen), and ancient Celtic Festival to mark the end of the fall harvest. Red Harvest Stout uses lightly roasted barley & sweet Irish malt.
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7.8/10
Malty, smooth, red currant and fruity
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Oct 2025
at 13:50
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Can. Frothy, creamy, foamy beer. This was impressive. That rest was not. Aroma was kind of weak, with hints of roasted grains. Same for the taste. Overall, just an average beer.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:32
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sold as Corcoran’s Celtic Red in an Irish pub in Winterberg (!). Tap. Malt, biscuit and nutmeg in the aroma. Bittersweet, malty, biscuity flavor with some earthy hops and raisin. Not too bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 5
Nice red-ish color with a minimum tan head. Quite waterish and hardly any aroma. Tast like very thin coffee. Nothing I will recomend. A poor and light version of a Guinness stout.
[On tap at O’Neill’s in Liverpool, England]
[On tap at O’Neill’s in Liverpool, England]
Tried
from Draft
on 01 May 2015
at 02:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can. Nitro. Dark ruby beer with a tan nitro head. Light roast aroma. Malt and light sweet flavor with light roast. Medium bodied. Malt and light roast lingers with light sweetness.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2014
at 09:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Clearish brown coloured body with a bright ruby glow at the very bottom and a nice, two centimetre tall nitrogenated light brown head - nice. Aroma of nuts, earth and a funky stale malt flavour throughout with a little sweetness. Medium-bodied; Assertive caramel and earthy malt flavour with very little else, except for some light bitterness. Aftertaste is mild and one-dimensional, the earthiness and caramel is noticeable, but the lack of other good flavours and complexity especially make for a decent beer, if that. I sampled this 50 cL can purchased from Harris Teeter in Falls Church (Skyline), Virginia on 06-December-2013 for US$5.99/4 pack (US$1.50 each pint can) sampled at home in Washington on 29-March-2014.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Mar 2014
at 22:24
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Nitro can sample at a tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Thanks beerandbeyond. Clear deep amber color with a milky head. Aroma of some chocolate and light roastiness. Rather bland flavor, sweetish, with hints of caramel, chocolate and a slightly drier finish. Really watery mouthfeel. Watery and bland.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2014
at 11:17
4.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Nitro can. Sweet barley malt aroma, with a hint of chocolate. Clear chestnut with a moderate beige head. Thin watery, slightly roasty barley malt flavor. Light watery body, flat carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jan 2014
at 16:42
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Kind of strange to open a Guinness Nitro can and not seeing the pitch black Stout. Pretty brown it is with reddish highlights. The usual smooth and creamy looking head of foam.
The smell I’m getting is not unlike a Guinness Stout. Light aroma of roasted malt and nothing else.
Roasted malt in the taste too but there’s more. The subtle sweetness mentioned on the can is there but I don’t think it is an asset to the overall taste. I call it a distracting displeasure and makes the brew, for me, much less drinkable than the Draught Stout. Same creaminess in the mouthfeel, obviously, but bottom line, I do not see the NEED for this beer to even exist. End of my story.
The smell I’m getting is not unlike a Guinness Stout. Light aroma of roasted malt and nothing else.
Roasted malt in the taste too but there’s more. The subtle sweetness mentioned on the can is there but I don’t think it is an asset to the overall taste. I call it a distracting displeasure and makes the brew, for me, much less drinkable than the Draught Stout. Same creaminess in the mouthfeel, obviously, but bottom line, I do not see the NEED for this beer to even exist. End of my story.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jan 2014
at 11:44
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours ruby tinged black into an English pint. White creamy head with excellent retention recedes leaving trailing sheets. Sweet bready nuts and caramel aromas. Thin with earthy caramel and bitter nuts front to back and into the medium-length metallic finish.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2013
at 14:34