Bottle thanks to Paul. Appearance - opaque black with a creamy head. Nose - creamy and savoury earthy. Taste - creamy chocolate and chocolate biscuits. Palate - medium bodied and light roasty finish. Overall - good. Taste better than nose.

Bottle thanks to Ashton McCobb. Pours murky dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of chocolate, light roast. Taste is light liquorice, dark chocolate. Light sweet finish.

50cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a big white head. Aroma of grassy and citrusy hops, pale malt. Taste of bitter citrusy hops, pale malt, pine, zest, long bitter finish.

Can thanks to Paul. Appearance - golden yellow with a big, fluffy white head. Nose - citrus and bread. Taste - creamy lemon and custard. Crusty bread at the back. Palate - light bodied, light malty finish. Overall - a decent example of the style.

50cl bottle. A black beer with a small beige head. Aroma of mild sweet dark roasted malt, chocolate, some coffee. Taste of dark chocolate malt, some liquorice, coffee, moderate bitterness. Nice!

An ‘Irish red ale’, in itself more a marketing concept that a true traditional beer style, as interpreted by this microbrewery in the northeast of Ireland (just below Northern Ireland in fact), thanks to Craftmember for sharing. Snow white, thinnish, opening, uneven-bubbled head on a crystal clear, deep copper red beer – very copper indeed so living up to the artificial expectations surrounding this ‘semi-style’. Aroma of fresh brown bread and ‘pistolets’, breakfast toast, hard caramel without the sweetness, fainter hints of dry tea, peanuts, nutmeg, dry chicken stock cube, petrichor. Clean onset, no esteriness as such, lively and minerally carbonation, slick and slightly resinous mouthfeel, consistent with ABV; this streamlined brown-bready and toasty maltiness with slight peanutty edge continues well beyond the finish and in spite of a light herbal hop bitter note in the end (almost old dry tea-ish), is the last flavour that remains. Simple but effective, pleasantly toasty-bready without further ornaments, clean and streamlined – this beer indeed matches the expectations I have from an Irish red. Well done for what it intends to be.

Nice deep red hue. Classic dried fruit barleywine flavour. Not perfect, a tiny bit muddled, but overall quite good. Boozy. Hopcult dresden

Fles gedeeld met Inoven. Het is een diep donkerbruin bier met een bruinig schuim. Het heeft een gebrande turfachtige geur. De smaak is gebrand, houtig, turf en rokerig.

Flesje gedeeld door Tomhendriksen. Diep donkerbruin helder bier met mooie schuimkraag. Aroma van gebrand hout. Smaak is houtig en rokerig. Nasmaak is iets bitter maar ebt snel weg.