Flannery’s Irish Style Ale
New Trail Brewing Company

From a pint can poured into a beer glass.
A red/amber pour with clarity, a weak head and low lacing.
Toasted caramel notes run a little semi-dry.
The malt has a floral spice accent and mildly bitter hops are enjoyable, but subdued.
An enjoyable beer that offers some enjoyable semidry flavor and bitterness.

 

Very nice Irish Red Ale.

 

 

 

 

Malt is forward giving this red an earthy, bready and nutty crisp flavor with subtle notes of caramel. Very nice!

Pours a rich red amber with a tan head that hangs around.

Caramel malt, whole grain bread, and roasted nuts in the nose.

Caramel and roasted nuts up front with a touch of bitter herb in the dry finish.

 

16oz can into a pint glass. Shocked to find a canned on date on a NT beer, 2/26/24, so 5-6 weeks old.

Decent look, nice reddish amber body, small off white head, a mist of lacing. Aroma is slightly floral. On tasting, strongly malty. The finish is quite bitter, faintly sour and a little off-putting. This may be truer to the style, but I prefer a cleaner slightly sweet finish in an Irish Red.

Poured into narrow pint glass: color is amber, fairly transparent, light tan head with fine bubbles presents 1 finger thick then dissipates to thin top with spotty lacing on the glass.

Smell is nearly all malt, but well done as it is not overly sweet, just clean base malt with hint of caramel, some earthy bitterness.

Taste is true, traditional Irish red ale - malt forward, not overly sweet, caramel notes, limited bitterness. Great malt forward flavor with drinkable caramel flavor.

Mouthfeel is low carbonation, moderate sweetness, clean bitterness, light lingering sweetness, a bit of drying.

Overall an excellent red ale with great malt flavor that threads the light sweetness, limited bitterness needled. Wish they brewed this as a year round brew.

 

 

 

 

I had SUCH a great day this past Sunday on/for New New Trail & Feeling Light-Hearted About Happoshu Beer Sunday (Week 784) that I have decided to just CANtinue where I left off, as opposed to waiting until this CANming Sunday. I am really digging New Trail's beers from Bill Town, aka Williamsport, PA. These guys seem to be onto something!

From the CAN: "Irish Style Red Ale".

I was quite CANxious to Crack! this one open & get started on my St. Pat's CANebration since it is one of my favorite holidays in the year. Let's see - Hallowe'en, St. Pat's, 4th of July, Halfway to St. Pat's (17 Septembeer) & International Talk Like a Pirate Day (19 Septembeer), yep, that's the lot! I went with a slow, gentle C-Line Glug into the awaiting glass & got a pseudo-cascade for my troubles. 8=O This led to the formation of just under two fingers of thick, foamy, rocky, tawny head with moderate retention, falling away to a skim. Color was a gorgeous Deep-Amber/Light-Copper to Copper (SRM = > 13, < 17) with NE-quality clarity. Be still, me beatin' heart! It were the color & shade of me sweet Linda Lou's hair, she bein' the mavourneen that got away over a quarter-century ago. 8=( Nose had a rich caramel sweetness along with a freshly-baked breadiness. Mmm. Mouthfeel was a little on the thin side, not watery, but if that is the worst thing that I say about this, then I suggest that ye buy yerself a tin (CAN) & find out for yerself how good it is. The taste was bang-on, the site's Style Guide not bein' totally forthcomin' in this insCANce. It hearkened back to the early days of craft brewing c. mid-to-late-1980s when everyone had a Red Ale on & they tended towards malty sweetness. A recent revival has seen an increase in hoppy bitterness, but apparently New Trail is old skool & that's okay. I do not mind a bit of nostalgia in me glass. Finish was semi-sweet, thankfully NOT cloyingly sweet, which might have put me off. I urge you to seek out this (or any of their) beer(s). You should not be disappointed! YMMV.