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

THANKS! Sampled draft @ Moeder Lambiek Original. Clear golden orange, creamy off-white head. Nose is mellow toffee, orange, peach, more sweet than hoppy. Taste is mellow sweet toffee, butterscotch, butter, toffee, apricot, all of those things, rather sweet & bland. Basic oily toffee body. More sweet than hoppy, bland with too much toffee. Not too crazy about it.

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

Draft glass shared with Sebletitje @ Moeder Lambiek Original. Black, little tanned head. Nose is big vegetable umami, mushroom & light gray. Taste is sweet umami, mushroom, gravy, lightly watery, bit vegetable, ginger is in the finish but too little for my taste & you need to look a bit for me. Body is lightly watery & umami. Not enough ginger for me, tad watery & far too mushroom umami.

Irish Beer Weekend

Irish Beer Weekend

Irish Beer Weekend

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

botte from European Local Swap 2/2016, thanks Beersiveknown (Steve) dark brown to black, with a brown creamy head. aroma of chocolate, coffee, roasted and burnt malts. Taste of ginger, smooth, vanilla, thin, slick mouthfeel, lightly bitter, medium sweetness, light cacao, dry mouthfeel, low carbo, medium body,

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

Can from O’Brien’s, Athlone [080116]
Light blonde, whitish haze, dense frothy head
Aroma of lemon zest, fresh hoppy, soft herbal hop, light malt background, spicy peppery, quite complex, very good
Taste as nose, fresh hoppy zest, very light malt, peppery, spicy, just fresh fresh
Palate - Medium carb and body, peppery spicy fairly bitter, no claggy malts. Finish as main flavour, clean
Overall - Very good job - so fresh out of the can

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

Draught at the Headline. Cloudy brown with a solid head. Aroma of jam hop. Flavour is grapefruit, chalky hop, orange bitter base. Lingering dry bitter finish.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at Alphie Byrnes. Hazy gold with a full solid head. Aroma is light grapefruit. Flavour is chewy fruit, dusty hop, fruity bitterness. Lingering dry sharp palate. These guys beers are really top notch at the moment.