Harp Lager
Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
5.36
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Bright pale golden; fruity nose; crisp and clean, slightly bitter up front, smooth aftertaste.
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4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Can from Beers of Europe, Kings Lynn, Pours golden with a frothy lasting white head. Aroma of grain, malt, grass and light citrus and floral notes. Medium to heavy sweetness, very light bitterness. Medium body, sticky but watery texture, average carbonation. Sweet, sticky grainy finish.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2017
at 08:41
4/10
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jul 2017
at 22:39
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle into lager glass, bottled on 12/5/2016. Pours crystal clear medium golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/nuttiness, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice aromas with good balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/nuttiness, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, lightly toasted biscuit, light honey/nuttiness, herbal, light pepper, and floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate dryness from bitterness, increasing through the glass. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero yeast notes present. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.5%. Overall this is a very nice pale lager. All around nice robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink. Very flavorful for the low ABV; with plenty of clean malt flavors, and solid earthy hop presence. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jul 2017
at 19:02
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6
From old tasting notes. Clear gold color with a large creamy white head. Fruity hop aroma. Bitter hops upfront with a sourdough background. Nice dry hoppy finish and aftertaste. Nicely done.
Tried
on 02 May 2017
at 21:14
7/10
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Apr 2017
at 15:56
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
As Harp Ice Cold, 5%. Tap at Hercules, Belfast. Poured a crystal clear straw colour with a thin long-lasting white head and a few bubbles. The aroma is lager malt, light hop. The flavour is moderate bitter with a grainy dry malt hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with lively carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Mar 2017
at 09:39
4.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Tap @ Slatterys bar. Clear golden color, average sized white head. Smell and taste malts, light grains, light bitterness. Bit dusty as well. Average body and carbonation. Meh, drinkable but boring lager.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Mar 2017
at 15:03
2.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 2.5
Pours a pale straw from a tap, aroma is adjunctly sweet, similar flavor, at least not skunky.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Mar 2017
at 20:37
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Keg draught at pub in Derry. A very tinny lager, not much to add apart from that.
Tried
on 10 Feb 2017
at 01:54
7/10
Tried
on 03 Feb 2017
at 22:20