Subsidiaries
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled(330ml). -Dark amber coloured, medium size beige head. I had a coid so I couldn’t detect the nose. The aroma is toasted malt and slight caramel with notes of bread and nuts. Mild sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2007
at 06:09
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Poured a nice dark red body with a medium sized beige head that went away at a medium pace. The nose is caramel in its entirety. Mild taste, subdued bready maltiness, weak weak caramel. Very low hoppy bitterness that forms a stump of an aftertaste. Watery. 10.4° and it sure shows. Somewhat pleasant, very drinkable and extremely average. Manages to be nearly as dull as the nitro wasteland that is so damn common in Irish beers. Either my tastebuds are oblivious to the subtle nuances of beers belonging to this style or this one’s close to a trainwreck. Granted, not as huge one as Kilkenny’s, but closer than it has any right to be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2007
at 18:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
0.5l draught (nitro I believe) at Tolkien’s in Zagreb Black colour, perfect brownish little to medium sized nitro head that lasted until the end. Pleasant sweetish caramelly nose, reminiscent of a Twix bar with hints of dust. Typical nitro smooth taste. Underlying weak caramel and cappuccino taste meets some hoppy (I guess) bitterness and acidity (that seems to be common in nitro brews from my experience). Looooong acidic/roasty aftertaste. A decent nitro stout that, while having most if not all the flaws imparted by that way of serving, still retains some of its former complexity. I’ll rerate it when I get a bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2007
at 17:04
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
12 oz brown bottle but mine says O’Hara’s Irish Stout, I think this is the same stuff. Pours extremely dark and is opaque for the most part. Has a delicious rootbeer roasty aroma. At first I was alarmed because it made me reminisce about a terrible foreign stout I had once. However, once I got over that, It felt pretty chocolaty good on the olfactory. The taste is less sweet than the aroma, definitely some roastiness in the flavors. There is some chocolate in there but it is dry unsweetened chocolate, not semi-sweet, more like baking chocolate. Very nice medium low carbonation tingle. A bitterness builds on the back of the throat as you consume more. Not as good as Tröegs Oatmeal Stout. Much better than Mendicino and Guinness Draught. On par with Hereford & Hops Cashel Bay Stout and Sly Fox OReillys Stout. Overall a pretty decent entry for the non offensive dark beer market.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2007
at 18:23
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at The Rake, Borough Market. Gold colour with thin white head. Citrus beer, over carbonated. Some fullness. Some floweryness. Floral hop aroma isn’t bad. Too carbonated though. Nice hop on finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Apr 2007
at 04:02
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
brown in colur,with a standart light malt nose, malty with little chocolate to it and a little smokey
Tried
on 05 Mar 2007
at 06:39
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Pale CLEAR yellow (odd for a wheat) with atypical wheat nose, and a mild hop wheat flavour
Tried
on 05 Mar 2007
at 06:38
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Black color with a nice brown head. Aroma is burnt malt, chocolate and coffee. Flavor is roasted with some hints of chocolate and coffee. Dry finish, but a little thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2007
at 16:23
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Picked this bottle up from the Dodgy Deli’ Cowley Rd, Oxford. Hazy golden colour with some wheat, banana, and vanilla on the nose, taste is quite refreshing but vanilla come through again, touch sweet, but not too bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2006
at 17:25
3.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
My first Irish Ale. By the looks of the label, better be good. Pours transparent darker brown almost black. Very little aroma. Hoppy impact on the tongue during the first taste. Label says it’s sweet, not much sweeetness in there. Finish lingers bitter for quite a while. Not tremendously impressed with this style but it is acceptable. Too expensive to buy again at this rating. $3 for a 12 oz bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2006
at 11:35