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Smiling Irish Bastard
Geaghan's Restaurant & Pub
- From:
- Geaghan's Restaurant & Pub
- Maine, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
Ranked #727 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #19,814 - Avg:
- 3.79 | pDev: 13.19%
- Reviews:
- 9
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 05, 2023
- Added:
- Feb 25, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 20
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Mikexw:
Rated by Mikexw from New York
3.78/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Aug 28, 2016
3.78/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Aug 28, 2016
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.55/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Can into nonic pint glass, the appearance was a semi-burnt orange to bronzed amber color with a good finger's and a half worth of off white foamy head steadily keeping a fairly rocky sort of top to it. Nice looking rings of lace wound around the glass fairly nice.
The aroma had a nice blend of earthy malts to resinous hop qualities invading some semi-sweet to bitter grapefruit pulp and rind. Smooth caramel malt in the backbone.
The flavor took all of those previously mentioned aromas to blend and pull in a slight tobacco-like leafy dry sweetness with that slight bitter edge coming in for balance. Light malty to bitter tobacco and earthiness in the aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was almost medium bodied with a fairly huge dryness about it. It's somewhat sessionable and kept the carbonation on point. ABV felt good. Moderate tobacco-like dry and sweet sort of finish.
Overall, it's a drier sort of APA but pretty good. I could probably have again if I saw it.
Dec 16, 2017The aroma had a nice blend of earthy malts to resinous hop qualities invading some semi-sweet to bitter grapefruit pulp and rind. Smooth caramel malt in the backbone.
The flavor took all of those previously mentioned aromas to blend and pull in a slight tobacco-like leafy dry sweetness with that slight bitter edge coming in for balance. Light malty to bitter tobacco and earthiness in the aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was almost medium bodied with a fairly huge dryness about it. It's somewhat sessionable and kept the carbonation on point. ABV felt good. Moderate tobacco-like dry and sweet sort of finish.
Overall, it's a drier sort of APA but pretty good. I could probably have again if I saw it.
Reviewed by duck9696 from Maine
2.45/5 rDev -35.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.45/5 rDev -35.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
The catchy name of the beer made me want to like this beer, but it tastes like many of the other offerings on the market and this falls short to me. The beer is bitter, not malty. There is some hoppiness, but the taste itself is rather pedestrian and there is nothing that stands out for me about this beer.
Dec 01, 2017Reviewed by Eamonn-Cummings3 from New York
4.02/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from a 12oz bottle into a high sided snifter glass.
A little darker amber than I am used to in a pale ale.
Aroma is of dank citrusy hops, smells excellent.
Nice hoppy taste, for a 6% abv the body is very thin with not much malt presence.
Jul 06, 2017A little darker amber than I am used to in a pale ale.
Aroma is of dank citrusy hops, smells excellent.
Nice hoppy taste, for a 6% abv the body is very thin with not much malt presence.
Rated by Kileybri from New Jersey
5/5 rDev +31.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +31.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
I loved everything about this beer and the name amused me.
Apr 22, 2017
Smiling Irish Bastard from Geaghan's Restaurant & Pub
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
58 ratings
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