'OPsession
O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company in Bagenalstown, County Carlow, Ireland 🇮🇪
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.44
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‘Opsession IPA is a sessionable IPA, created to be light and refreshing whilst keeping all the flavour profile that we love and expect from an IPA. The generous hop additions perfectly play off a crisp malt backbone delivering a flavoursome beer to satisfy any hop lovers taste buds.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
It is a regular session IPA, easy to drink, a good one before to start with heavier IPA. The hop is with pine tree, dry and mineral, 05.11.17, at Bonfol, buying it at the grain d'Orges, Crissier.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2025
at 16:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2017, [ Great British Beer Festival 2017 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.[ As Carlow O'Hara's 'Opsession ].Clear medium to dark amber orange colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, moderate hoppy, pine, spruce, citrus, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a long duration, fruity hops, pine, pale malt, citrus, light orange - tangerine. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170810] 7-3-7-3-13
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Jul 2019
at 13:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ GBBF 2017. Pours a golden pale amber color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty weak citrus hoppy aroma. Fruity malty weak citrus hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Sep 2018
at 13:20
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Künstlich fruchtiger, wenig hopfiger Antrunk. Spritzig, etwas zu süß, nicht ganz rund. Meh. 9/8/10/8//8
Tried
on 12 Dec 2017
at 11:50
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
10th August 2017
GBBF Day 3. Cask. Light haze on this gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth and semi dry. modest fine carbonation. Smooth sweet malts, some tangy malt as well. Tangy ripe orange citrus. Modest hop skunk. Light orange peel. Bitter floral dry finish. Not bad.
GBBF Day 3. Cask. Light haze on this gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Palate is smooth and semi dry. modest fine carbonation. Smooth sweet malts, some tangy malt as well. Tangy ripe orange citrus. Modest hop skunk. Light orange peel. Bitter floral dry finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2017
at 09:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at the GBBF 2017. Day 3. 10/08/2017. A light hazed golden orange coloured pour with a a halo of white head. Aroma is spicy citrus, nutty,. Flavour is composed of brown sugars, pine, sticky orange peel. Ok. Palate is semi sweet, grainy, ok cask condition.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2017
at 15:35
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled @ GBBF 2017, Day 3. A clear orange golden beer with a mid sized most good lasting off-white head. Aroma of orange fruits, tangerine, mild bitterness. Taste of orange fruits, tangerine, apricot, mild bitterness, okay.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2017
at 07:07
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small off white head. Aroma is peachy and slight citrusy. Dry, herbal and slight citrusy hoppy. Bitter and solid hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Aug 2017
at 10:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. A hazy golden beer with A lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of hops, spices, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, hops, and flowers, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jul 2017
at 09:13
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap@Shamrock Inn, Copenhagen - Amber pour with white head. Sweet fruity and malty with notes of citrus, tangerine, sweet caramel malty base, herbal twiggy hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jul 2017
at 14:28