O'Hara's / Carlow Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Bagenalstown,
County Carlow,
Ireland 🇮🇪
Associated Venue: Brewery Corner
Established in 1996
Contact
Subsidiaries
Description
O’Hara’s Brewery is a family-owned business established in 1996 and one of the pioneers of Irish craft brewing. Located in the heart of Ireland’s traditional malt and hop-growing “Barrow Valley” region which has strong historical linkages to the Irish brewing industry, we are proud to have been at the forefront of the new wave of Irish craft brewing for almost 25 years.
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
330 ml bottle. Unclear red amber with a creamy head. Caramel, toffee, lemon zest, slightly metallic, some nuts and malt, some stone fruit. Dry bitterness, malty sweetness. Medium to light bodied, oily texture, soft carbonated, dry malty bittersweet finish. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jul 2023
at 20:06
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle from the Low Cost Beer online shop. Pours clear amber-brown with a short-lived thin beige head. Aromas of light fruit and caramel. Taste is light nutty sweet, light toffee. Thin finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2023
at 21:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from.the Vineyard. Appearance - mat black and opaque. Creamy beige head. Nose - milky, chocolate breakfast cereal. Taste - more chocolate breakfast cereal. Generally creamy with a very slight suggestion of roast. Palate - creamy and soft, medium bodied with a verybslight edge of roastiness. Overall - good.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2023
at 08:49
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can, 0.44l. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate and vanilla. Pours dark brown color with thick creamy cappuccino-like head and fair lacing. Taste starts with bitter chocolate, roasted malt and nuts, following is grassy and faint dried fruity, mouthfeel is smooth, while finish is medium bitter and dry. Medium body, creamy texture and average carbonation in palate. Nitro power…
Tried
from Can
on 06 Jul 2023
at 20:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from theVineyard. Appearance - golden amber with a white head. Nose - bread and orange. A bit cakey. Taste - cake, dried orange and some sweet spice. Palate - light to medium bodied. Chewy finish. Overall - quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2023
at 20:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear deep amber beer with a creamy off white head. Aroma of resinous hops, pine, caramel, citrus. Taste of resinous bitter hops, citrus, pine needles, caramel. Long bitter finish.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2023
at 19:10
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 3.5
Lukt: Humle, malt, krydder, frukter. Utseende: Brun. Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum. Smak: Humle, malt, krydder, frukter. Medium: Rating:54547, Boks@440ml, ABV@4,3%, Når@28.07.2023. Hvor: Tasting kveld Bryne. O'Hara's Irish Red Nitro Red Ale - Irish
Tried
on 03 Jul 2023
at 15:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Taster showing medium to dark amber with half a finger of clean white foam.
The nose shows moderately intense notes of pineapple and bready sweet malts.
The palate is well carbonated and medium bodied. Moderately pineapple forward with a well supported tea like malt backbone commonly found in English IPAs. Barely any bitterness on the finish with a slight astringency.
The nose shows moderately intense notes of pineapple and bready sweet malts.
The palate is well carbonated and medium bodied. Moderately pineapple forward with a well supported tea like malt backbone commonly found in English IPAs. Barely any bitterness on the finish with a slight astringency.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jun 2023
at 10:45
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Amber colour with a small creamy off-white head. Aroma is toasted malts, tea leafs, citrus and some caramel. Flavour is nutty, some toasted malts, tea leafs, caramel and some mild earthy tones. Mellow bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2023
at 21:48
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can (from Alko Web). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is nectar, some floral and mild toffeeish tones. Flavour is fruity, floral, herbal and some grassy notes with some toffeeish tones.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2023
at 21:47