Irish Red
Martha's Exchange Restaurant & Brewing Company in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.79
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a fairly dark red almost brown color with a cap of a little white head. Sly messy lace.
The aroma seemed similar to the other red ale I had but this one was different because it had a bit more of grassy hops and then a slight herbal quality came about.
The flavor leaned towards the herbal tones at first and brought about the earthy and grassy hops to come in between and chunk up the malts. There’s that separation I tend to speak about often in my reviews of beers of how they don’t blend right. This is one of those beers. Aftertaste was chunky between the malts and the hops. Finish was lean with the malts.
The feel was about medium bodied with a slight sessionability about it. Good carbonation and the ABV felt fine.
Overall, pretty decent for an Irish red ale. Some day, I hope brewers will learn to blend the beer fully. I already know some who do, but I do wish more would do this practice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On cask at the Source. Mostly clear deep ruddy brown with a good sized off white head that persists. Sweet bready caramel malt with a hint of chocolate and some earthy hop to counter. Pretty tasty beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
on tap-pours amber with a thin offwhite head. Aroma is light/medium malt with some sweetness. Taste is light/medium malt with some sweetness/caramel, 2nd spice hops. Crisp.