Hilltop Brewery Gallagher Stout

Gallagher Stout

 

Hilltop Brewery in Bassano Romano (VT), Lazio, Italy 🇮🇹

  Stout - Smoked Regular
Score
6.99
ABV: 5.5% IBU: 40 Ticks: 40
This beer is dedicated to my mother … and to the memory of our Irish roots.

An unusual Irish stout made with seaweed (called dulse in Ireland) gathered from the coast near Belfast and smoked over an oak wood fire.

There is an ever-so-slight saltiness on the mouth and a smoky background to the nose: sea and burning oak.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at fynefest. Pours deep brown, nose is roasted, coffee, chocolate, taste is sweet toffee, caramel, roasted, bitter.

Tried on 03 Jun 2018 at 18:47


7

Tried on 28 May 2018 at 17:22


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

33cl bottle. A dark brown beer with a mid-sized most good lasting tan head. Aroma of dry roasted malt, coffee and lactose. Taste of dry dark roasted malt, coffee, floral notes, lactose, interesting!

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2017 at 17:37


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from GBBF I think and drunk at home. Black beer lasting tan head. Smooth easy drinking good depth of flavour and mouthfeel. Dark chocolate dry. Some light paper. Good though. Liked it very much. Good rich dark chocolate juicy stout.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2017 at 14:58


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Clear black brown colour, tan head. Malty aroma, roasted malts, light smoky notes. Sweet malty flavour, caramel, coffee, light vegetable notes. Light smoky roasted finish.
(from draught @ BXL Beer Fest, Brussel. Thanks for sharing today's beers, rb crew!)

Tried on 21 Sep 2017 at 17:48


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

BXLBeerfest. Pours black. Aroma is roast, some sourness, bit dirty. Flavor is sweet and bitter, roast, chocolate, malt. Finish is roast bitter. Overall: ok.

Tried on 30 Aug 2017 at 12:21


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Thank you for sharing Martinus! Sampled draft @ BXLBeerFest 2017. Smoked Irish seaweed, interesting, honestly didn’t get that. Black, tanned head. Nose is far too roasted for me, herbal, burned chocolate & cacao; taste is weak herbal, dry plastic, dough, little smoke but heavy roast. Bdoy herbal, plaster, too basic bitter roast & no balance.

Tried from Draft on 28 Aug 2017 at 09:44


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Hilltop Gallagher Stout (by Hilltop Brewery):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

27/VIII/17 - on tap @ BXL Beer Fest - BB: n/a (2017-1434) Thanks to the (Belgian) RB crew for sharing today's beers!

Clear dark brown beer, creamy solid beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very roasted, coffee, malty, grains, cow fodder. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter, roasted, dry, hoppy, cow fodder, grains, some coffee. Aftertaste: bitter and hoppy, lots of grain, very roasted.

Tried from Draft on 27 Aug 2017 at 18:07


7

Tried from Draft on 27 Aug 2017 at 13:33


6

Tried on 26 Aug 2017 at 17:13