O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Bagenalstown,
Carlow,
Ireland 🇮🇪
Associated Venue: Brewery Corner
Established in 1996
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark golden in colour, light amber perhaps. A thin white head tops the beer. Great aroma of honey, yeast, wheat, curacao and the freshness of coriander seed. Medium to Light-bodied; Subtle sweet flavours, while some potent spice and freshness finish the taste. Aftertaste of wheat predominantly, some sweetness though. A nice American styled wheat overall, worth a try! I had this 23 ounce beer served on draught at MacGregor's in Rochester, New York.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5
Tap. Yellow, slightly darker than a a bud. What little aroma I could pick up was that of a cheap beer, with no qualities standing out. Hardly any flavor, a little bitter in the finish. No qualities of a wheat beer in this one. Maybe there was nothing wrong with it, but certainly nothing to enjoy.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pitch black body with a big, frothy, light brown head. Delicious, but quite weak, nose with roast malt and chocolate. Flavour is weak, but well balanced between a hops and chocolate bitterness and malt sweetness.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pitch black in colour with a very dense brown head. The smell is very subtle, just like a normal irish stout. The flavour is great, although subdued. Definately a goo dall around beer that ranks almost on par with guinness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
A black beer with next to no head. The aroma is slightly sweet - boring for a stout. The flavor is a soft sweet, slightly roasted flavor with a little smoke in the aftertaste, but no bitterness. Its thin for a stout, but all in all an OK beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
A dark amber beer with a small fast disappearing head. The aroma is weak but slightly sweet. The flavor is wheaty (?) - too sweet and boring. All in all an average beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Golden colour inded. Slight, very white head, lacy. Nose of chaff and grain. Some slight metallic hint too. In the taste come wheat, grain very much to the fore. Retronasal bitterish, rather clean palate. Watery mouthfeel, a bit carbonation. Aftertaste gives slight acidity due to the wheat and the carbonation. I don't know what to make of this. No phenol/banana as in Bavarian, no Belgian spices for wit, not enough acidity for Berliner - but there's nothing instead!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Completely dark-brown to black. Brown-grey head, thick,big bubbles. Nose: coffee-and-milk, chocolate, roasted malt, tobacco notes. Taste is bitter as from burnt malts. Coffee, chicory. Very chewy mouthfeel, yet refreshing. Aftertaste is malt & bitterness, like a slightly overdone bread.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dark brown, with only a red shine. darkish head, lacy. Nose gives milk chocolate, like a sweet stout. Taste - this is like watered-down sweet stout. Flavour is certainly caramelmalts, very outspokenly. Daring taste, but I'd liked some hops. Very light-bodied, however, the coloured malts gives some mouthfeel. No new aftertaste. I'm surprised by this beer - it has a character I can't place. I'm even not certain whether I like it or not.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Dark color, brownish thick head, beautiful lace. Some malt and sharp but not strong roasted barley; yeast. Reasonable stout, a bit metallic, dry.