Morrigan's Irish Red Ale
Lakeville Brewing Co.
- From:
- Lakeville Brewing Co.
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- Irish Red Ale
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Apr 28, 2020
- Added:
- Apr 15, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This delicious and rich dark copper colored ale is made with a variety of malts and roasted barley. This is an easy-drinking pint that is malt-focused with an initial sweetness and a roasted dryness in the finish.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by MNAle from Minnesota
3.68/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.68/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
"The beer has a moderate strength aroma; musty, earthy, sweet-ish, perhaps a bit of caramel or molasses, plus hints of a crisp fruitiness, especially as the beer warms a bit.
Reddish brown color, prototypical for the style, clear with plenty of bubbles rising to a ½ inch off-white to tan head, which has decent retention, eventually dropping to a cap of soap bubbles. Good-looking, if sparse, lacing after each sip and as the beer is consumed down the glass. While the head recedes, the upward rain of active carbonation bubbles continue through to the end. A nice-looking beer.
The beer has a medium to thin body, some carbonation on the tongue, and a smooth, even creamy, feel.
Initial taste carries forward the earthy and musty flavors from the aroma, with a solid sweet malt foundation, and some spice in the finish. There is subdued bittering that begins in the middle, and strengths slightly in the finish. The aftertaste retains the sweet character from the malts, but is reasonably well balanced by the low level of bitterness from the hops. A bit of a soft creamy feeling remains as the after-flavors fade. My enjoyment of this beer grew throughout. The alcohol is well hidden, and the beer enjoyable, so drinking a crowler is a bit too easy for the ABV.
Overall, it is balanced and has good flavor. This is very much a drinkable and enjoyable Irish Red Ale, well suited for a neighborhood pub and restaurant."
Apr 28, 2020Reddish brown color, prototypical for the style, clear with plenty of bubbles rising to a ½ inch off-white to tan head, which has decent retention, eventually dropping to a cap of soap bubbles. Good-looking, if sparse, lacing after each sip and as the beer is consumed down the glass. While the head recedes, the upward rain of active carbonation bubbles continue through to the end. A nice-looking beer.
The beer has a medium to thin body, some carbonation on the tongue, and a smooth, even creamy, feel.
Initial taste carries forward the earthy and musty flavors from the aroma, with a solid sweet malt foundation, and some spice in the finish. There is subdued bittering that begins in the middle, and strengths slightly in the finish. The aftertaste retains the sweet character from the malts, but is reasonably well balanced by the low level of bitterness from the hops. A bit of a soft creamy feeling remains as the after-flavors fade. My enjoyment of this beer grew throughout. The alcohol is well hidden, and the beer enjoyable, so drinking a crowler is a bit too easy for the ABV.
Overall, it is balanced and has good flavor. This is very much a drinkable and enjoyable Irish Red Ale, well suited for a neighborhood pub and restaurant."
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