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.

500ml bottle from In Pivo Veritas in Moscow. Pours opaque brown with a small beige head. Aroma is malt, prunes, nuts. Taste is medium sweet, malty, dried fruits, caramel. Light bitter finish. Alcohol is well hidden.

Flasche 0,5l: Kupfer, dunkles Mahagoni, glasklar, eher flüchtiger mittelporiger Schaum; frische + fruchtige Nase, fruchtig-malzige Süße, dunkle/eingelegte Früchte, Hopfenaromen, kräftig Malz, Malzzucker, dunkles Karamell, Röstaromen, etwas Schokolade, würzig-fruchtige Bitterkeit; fruchtiger + würziger Körper, leichte würzige Süße, dunkle Fruchtigkeit, eher trockene Hopfenaromen, leichte trockene Säure, Röstaromen, Röstmalz, Getreide, dunkles Karamell, cremig, kräftige Kohlensäure, Haselnussschalen, Kaffee; würzig-trockener Nachgang

50cl Flasche. Eine klare dunkel rötlichbraune Farbe, große beige Schaumkrone. Aroma: Angenehm nussig, rotes Malz, Karamell, leicht würzig hopfig. Geschmack: Dezent süßes Karamellmalz, nussig, rotes Malz, leicht hopfig. Gefällt mir.

Bottle from beerclub. Black with a medium tan head. Aroma of toasted malt. Flavour is dry malt, burnt toast, licorice on a smooth milky finish.

330ml bottle. Cloudy, orangey, dark golden to amber colour with average to huge, thick, creamy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Relatively weak, citrusy hoppy and minimally oaty, malty aroma, hints of lemon, lemon peel, a touch of marmalade, minimally waxy overtones. Taste is bitter, zesty, citrusy hoppy, hints of lemon zest, orange zest, maramalade, a minimally waxy and chalky touch, dry, oaty malty basis. Minimally oily texture, smooth and soft palate, fine, soft, mildly prickly carbonation. Not really NE style; neither really hazy nor juicy, solely citrusy fruity but not tropical fruity (not a necessary condition but quite typical) - OK IPA.