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Lough Gill Brewery in Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland 🇮🇪
Collab with: Spearhead BrewingIPA - Red Regular
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Score
6.74
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A nice Red IPA of 6.5%, brewed by Lough Gill Brewery from Ireland in collaboration with Spearhead Brewing Company from Canada. Brewed with Centennial and Strata hops, it delivers aromas of toffee and caramel with flavors of citrus and pine.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
440ml. can. @home. 18/07/2023 [#6.585 Global - #156 Ireland - #2 Lough Gill Brewery] Pours reddish amber with a lasting white head. Aroma: toffee malts, grapefruit and burnt caramel. Taste: orange pith, roasted malts, toffee and biscuits. Sticky toffee palate. Medium bodied and boozy finish. Next one please!
Tried
from Can
on 16 Aug 2023
at 08:50
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jun 2023
at 18:12
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Copper colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have slightly old, skunky hop notes. Maybe a bit oxidised. Thinnish body.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2023
at 14:58
7/10
Tried
on 30 May 2023
at 22:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Panda 🐼 at home big thanks to Colin. A A clear amber red coloured pour with a halo off white head. Aroma is semi sweet, sticky toffee, spicy wood, warming alcohol, bbboozy, whiskey. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, brown sugars, toffee, woody barrel, vanilla, oaky tannin. Palate is semi sweet, oily, woody tannin, mellow carbonation, boozy finish.
Tried
on 29 May 2023
at 00:09
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at home, from Yards & Crafts online, 14/05/23. Reddish amber with a good sized lasting egg shell white head. Nose is bitter orange, straw, toasted malts, red grapefruit, hint of putty. Taste comprises orange peel, caramel malts, biscuit, bread dough, soft malts, light pine, grapefruit. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spliced with balanced light juicy hop bitterness. Decent enough Red IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 14 May 2023
at 17:19