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Keefe's Irish Stout
Granite Brewery & Restaurant
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- From:
- Granite Brewery & Restaurant
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Irish Dry Stout
Ranked #20 - ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #12,971 - Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 9.32%
- Reviews:
- 13
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Yesterday at 11:30 PM
- Added:
- Dec 23, 2003
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
A rich, malty stout with roasted, chocolate and coffee notes ending in a dry finish.
32 IBU
32 IBU
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Ratings by jjboesen:
Rated by jjboesen from Maryland
4.13/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Jul 15, 2015
4.13/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Jul 15, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by paylstep from Canada (ON)
3.98/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 4
Great beer. more expensive than Guinness, but i think a more refined taste! Heavier on the burnt taste, about the same level of bitterness, great coffee chocolate notes.
Yesterday at 11:30 PMReviewed by chinchill from South Carolina
3.5/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.5/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Keefe's Irish Stout on tap at The Henry House in Halifax where it's sometimes referred to as "Halifax Guinness".
Medium-light body that's smooth and well carbonated but seems a bit to thin.
Clear but very dark ruby colored body with a creamy and very durable head.
Hints of smoke and char. No fruit notes. Moderately bitter.
Lasting aftertaste of very dark roasted grains.
Jun 11, 2016Medium-light body that's smooth and well carbonated but seems a bit to thin.
Clear but very dark ruby colored body with a creamy and very durable head.
Hints of smoke and char. No fruit notes. Moderately bitter.
Lasting aftertaste of very dark roasted grains.
Reviewed by liamt07 from Canada (ON)
4.09/5 rDev +3%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.09/5 rDev +3%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
On tap at the brewpub.
Pours a shade or two off midnight black, couldn't see any light penetrate this at any point. Dense body, and an even denser and creamier mocha head. Heavy retention and lace. Gorgeous stout, even left me with a stout mustache. Nose has some light coffee and caramel, and hint of chocolate. Taste follows, with some sweet caramel and dry, bitter coffee. Thick mouthfeel, and roasty throughout. Creamy going down and great drinkability. Helluva stout, something I pursue every time I visit them. Likely my favourite regular offering of theirs.
Feb 06, 2011Pours a shade or two off midnight black, couldn't see any light penetrate this at any point. Dense body, and an even denser and creamier mocha head. Heavy retention and lace. Gorgeous stout, even left me with a stout mustache. Nose has some light coffee and caramel, and hint of chocolate. Taste follows, with some sweet caramel and dry, bitter coffee. Thick mouthfeel, and roasty throughout. Creamy going down and great drinkability. Helluva stout, something I pursue every time I visit them. Likely my favourite regular offering of theirs.
Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)
3.93/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
3.93/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
On-tap at Volo, in Toronto.
The Irish people are often characterized as having freckly white skin and auburn red hair; their beers for being jet black and possessing a mousy head. Keefe's Irish Stout, though brewed in Canada, definitely looks the part for its name. It is opaque and dense looking, capped with a pasty, white cream. This, art students, is the definition of chiaroscuro.
The aroma is rather quiet and tame relative to higher gravity stouts. For an Irish Dry Stout, however, it has just the right balance between passivity and personality. Its grainy, roasty smell is unwavering, hints of coffee and cocoa just barely slip under the nose as they are scorned by the dense, obtuse scent of roasted barley. It smells mighty tasty.
And indeed, it is! The brewer, to ensure good flavour and mouthfeel, didn't hesitate to splurge on the malt. His heavy-hand has led to a desirable balance between bitter and lightly astringent roasted barley flavours and more lush, palatable notes of unsweetened chocolate. The combination is exceedingly smooth with a lasting aftertaste.
Which is precisely why the beer's acidic, sour mouthfeel stood out to me like a sore thumb. Judges will tell you this is common (if not expected) for the style, but if you ask me this almost lactic, curdled milk-like shot of sourness in an unusual contrast to the otherwise light, creamy texture. Luckily, in the end it detracted none from drinkability.
Warm smiles on rugged faces, green rolling hills, breezy rocky shores, crumbling Celtic vestiges, the polished brass, musty oak and warm fire of the pub - all of Ireland seems to rise in the dark, creamy and roasty sensation of a good stout. Keefe's Irish Stout won't have you seeing shamrocks but it's more than adequate for a good old-fashioned craic.
Mar 24, 2010The Irish people are often characterized as having freckly white skin and auburn red hair; their beers for being jet black and possessing a mousy head. Keefe's Irish Stout, though brewed in Canada, definitely looks the part for its name. It is opaque and dense looking, capped with a pasty, white cream. This, art students, is the definition of chiaroscuro.
The aroma is rather quiet and tame relative to higher gravity stouts. For an Irish Dry Stout, however, it has just the right balance between passivity and personality. Its grainy, roasty smell is unwavering, hints of coffee and cocoa just barely slip under the nose as they are scorned by the dense, obtuse scent of roasted barley. It smells mighty tasty.
And indeed, it is! The brewer, to ensure good flavour and mouthfeel, didn't hesitate to splurge on the malt. His heavy-hand has led to a desirable balance between bitter and lightly astringent roasted barley flavours and more lush, palatable notes of unsweetened chocolate. The combination is exceedingly smooth with a lasting aftertaste.
Which is precisely why the beer's acidic, sour mouthfeel stood out to me like a sore thumb. Judges will tell you this is common (if not expected) for the style, but if you ask me this almost lactic, curdled milk-like shot of sourness in an unusual contrast to the otherwise light, creamy texture. Luckily, in the end it detracted none from drinkability.
Warm smiles on rugged faces, green rolling hills, breezy rocky shores, crumbling Celtic vestiges, the polished brass, musty oak and warm fire of the pub - all of Ireland seems to rise in the dark, creamy and roasty sensation of a good stout. Keefe's Irish Stout won't have you seeing shamrocks but it's more than adequate for a good old-fashioned craic.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.85/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.85/5 rDev -3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On-tap at Volo - 45 minute, multiple-inquiry wait for this - the anticipation is palpable...
This beer appears a fuzzy dark brown hue, with minor red highlights, and one finger of creamy white head. It smells of roasted, bready malt, and a bit of milkiness. The taste is dry roasted malt, and some dry orchard fruit. The carbonation is moderate, the body smooth, and on the south side of medium weight, and it finishes off-dry, that creamy milkiness coming back around.
A pretty convincing Guinness/Murphy's analogue, but with the extra hint of milk stout characteristics. Worth the wait? Debatable.
Mar 22, 2010This beer appears a fuzzy dark brown hue, with minor red highlights, and one finger of creamy white head. It smells of roasted, bready malt, and a bit of milkiness. The taste is dry roasted malt, and some dry orchard fruit. The carbonation is moderate, the body smooth, and on the south side of medium weight, and it finishes off-dry, that creamy milkiness coming back around.
A pretty convincing Guinness/Murphy's analogue, but with the extra hint of milk stout characteristics. Worth the wait? Debatable.
Reviewed by Viggo from Canada (ON)
4.18/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.18/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
On tap at Volo for St. Paddy's. Was sure I had reviewed this one before.
Pours a dark reddish black, some light gets through in the edges, very thick and chunky tan head forms, slowly settles down to a thick ring and leaves some generous lacing on the glass.
Smell is nice, dark and roasty, some chocolate, biscuit, caramel sweetness, light bit of raisiny fruit, some oats and toast, a bit of vanilla, light floral, this is somewhere between a dry Irish and an American stout.
Taste is similar, nice vanilla and tobacco notes up front, chocolate, some roastiness, raisin, caramel and a bit of molasses, oats, biscuit and toast, nice roasty bitter finish.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied with low to medium carbonation. A pretty great stout, has the ABV of a dry Irish with the beefiness of an American stout.
Mar 18, 2010Pours a dark reddish black, some light gets through in the edges, very thick and chunky tan head forms, slowly settles down to a thick ring and leaves some generous lacing on the glass.
Smell is nice, dark and roasty, some chocolate, biscuit, caramel sweetness, light bit of raisiny fruit, some oats and toast, a bit of vanilla, light floral, this is somewhere between a dry Irish and an American stout.
Taste is similar, nice vanilla and tobacco notes up front, chocolate, some roastiness, raisin, caramel and a bit of molasses, oats, biscuit and toast, nice roasty bitter finish.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied with low to medium carbonation. A pretty great stout, has the ABV of a dry Irish with the beefiness of an American stout.
Keefe's Irish Stout from Granite Brewery & Restaurant
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
27 ratings
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