Notorious Red IPA
O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company in Bagenalstown, County Carlow, Ireland 🇮🇪
IPA Regular|
Score
6.54
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A Red IPA is a great way to celebrate craft beer and our brewers have not held back on this one. Packing an outrageous variety of malts and hops into our latest seasonal brew – they’re notorious! Using 6 different types of speciality malt and 5 different hop varieties this Red IPA will show the uninitiated what craft beer is all about and remind the converted why they love it so much!
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tap@Taphouse, Copenhagen (shared with Niller/Fam) - hazy amber coloured pour with off-white head. Aroma and taste is malty and fruity, with some notes of caramel, grassy herbal hoppy backing, pretty watery and thin, meh
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2016
at 13:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is toasted malty, slight herbal hoppy. Bitter, herbal, toasted to sweet malty. Dry, bitter and slight herbal dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2016
at 06:15
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. A hazy red beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and hops, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Apr 2016
at 11:36
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Martins. Cloudy red with a medium tan head. Aroma is soft fruit and malt. Flavour is grain, herbal, soft sticky fruit. Chalky herb bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2016
at 16:50
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from O’Brien’s, Athlone [190216]
Reddish brown caramel, soft haze, off white head
Aroma - light nose, soft caramel, light grassy hops, slight herbal note
Taste of caramel, soft grassy hops, light zest, soft toasted malts, soft spicy, light hops, not an IPA, yes it is a bit more hoppy than the usual Carlow offerings but not much
Palate - Soft carb, medium body. Finish as main flavour, soft spicy grassy hops, more caramel
Overall - Easy going, quite pleasant, but safe, not an IPA, expected it be far more hoppy than it was. Came across to me as an Irish Red, a better one that the official one
Reddish brown caramel, soft haze, off white head
Aroma - light nose, soft caramel, light grassy hops, slight herbal note
Taste of caramel, soft grassy hops, light zest, soft toasted malts, soft spicy, light hops, not an IPA, yes it is a bit more hoppy than the usual Carlow offerings but not much
Palate - Soft carb, medium body. Finish as main flavour, soft spicy grassy hops, more caramel
Overall - Easy going, quite pleasant, but safe, not an IPA, expected it be far more hoppy than it was. Came across to me as an Irish Red, a better one that the official one
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2016
at 17:31
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bit unclear, red copper colored, medium beige creamy head, long lasting. Aroma is of citrus and pine hops, some caramalt and toasty notes. Taste is medium sweet caramel malt, biscuit and toast, citrus and floral mild hops aroma, medium+ bitterness, dryish finish. Medium bodied, soft carbonation. Nothing to get excited about... (bottle, Scout Club Irish Pub, Samobor)
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2016
at 02:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled 500ml. -from Tolkien’s Zagreb. Shared with Marko. Red/amber coloured, medium sized white to off-white head, mild hoppy nose. Malty, caramel, light herbal hoppy and touch of metal with pretty raw hops presence in the finish. Expected better.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2016
at 07:46
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle at Tolkien’s. Dark amber body, more amber than red. Small white head. Aroma... orange, light maltiness and that’s pretty much that, apart from some light herbal notes. Taste... mild aroma hops on a dry caramelly background. More malty than hoppy. Dry finish. Impressively unimpressive. Yeah, so you’re trying to do "session beers", Carlow, OK, but not everything has to be 5%. And not everything with 5% has to taste like it has less than 5%...
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2016
at 20:02