O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Bagenalstown,
Carlow,
Ireland 🇮🇪
Associated Venue: Brewery Corner
Established in 1996
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Sample, thanks oh6gdx! Black, minimal head. Aroma of licorice, sherry and honey. Sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Caramel, vanillaish oak, port and honey. Warming, mellow finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Orange with a white head. Malty with some grapes and fruit notes. It feels a bit mushy and flabby. Not a ton of unique hop notes. It’s fine.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Can from Drinkmonger (2024) and Lupe Pintos (2026). Black body with ruby highlights and a thick beige head. No visible carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of charred wood, cocoa, dark chocolate and biscuit. Flavour of chocolate and vanilla with a bitter finish. Medium to full body with creamy mouthfeel. Gentle fizz. This is very tasty. I’d like to try a blind side-by-side tasting with Guinness as I think this would come out on top.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Near black with a tall, foamy tan head. Roasted malts, coffee, bittersweet cocoa, light earth, a touch of burnt malts. Medium bodied and a touch chalky. Finish has a dry and sharp snap. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Deep brown/black with a good finger of creamy, tan head. Roasted malts, coffee, milk chocolate, toffee, sweet malts. Full, smooth body. Feels a bit sweeter with dark sugars throughout. A good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Red with a good sized tan head. Deeply toasted malts, cracker, semi-sweet malt, earthy hop bite. Medium bodied. Finish is malty with a final snap of bitterness. The hops are more noticeable in the bottled version than the nitro can and I prefer the bottle because of that. It has more character.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Teku showing light to medium amber with sparse white foam.
The nose shows intense notes of overripe papaya and malts.
The palate is moderately carbonated and medium bodied. Malt forward with a strong biscuit malt profile followed by a moderate bitterness. Pretty standard old-style IPA.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Copper with a tall off-white head. Fruity, bitter hops, pale malts, sweet grass, a bit of citrus. Medium bodied. Sweet-ish in the finish. Fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A deep copper with an off-white head. Big citrus and some pine fortified by a strong caramel malt base. Finish is malty and bitter. Full bodied. Nice in a very old school way.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
EB - Bottle 375ml. @ [ Petalax 🇫🇮 💻👀 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏡🇩🇰 ❄☃️ ☁️☂️ [ As O'Hara's Barrel Aged Series: Double Barrel Aged Leann Folláin (Edition 10) ]. ABV: 12.0%. [20260222]. 8/3-/8/4/16