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Caffreys

Percentile
25
overall
Brewed by Tadcaster (MolsonCoors)
Style: Bitter

Tadcaster, England

bottled
available

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Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4222.76/5.02.76/5.04.2%18.1English pint
Commercial Description:
Pasteurised nitro-keg and nitro-can beer.
"A smooth, creamy ale." Introduced in 1994 as a 4.8% Irish Ale by Bass at Caffrey's Ulster brewery, and promoted strongly with an advertising campaign of "strong words softly spoken". Interbrew took over in 2000, soften the recipe and attempted to catch the lager market, using a new promotion of "a storm brewing". Coors acquired the brand in 2002. Initially contract brewed by Interbrew for Coors at Ulster, the brand eventually moved to Coor's Tower Brewery in Tadcaster.
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 patricks110 (284), Alberta, Canada
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/511/20
Nov 20, 2008    Updated: Sep 24, 2009
An interesting beer. Reverse cascading beer with a ful 2 inch foay head and a dark amber browny complexion that i hard to describe. My first taste: i found the beer aaing and complex. After this, i found the beer mediocre. Overall, i would drink this again.


 Adenila (946), Denmark
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/104/510/20
Oct 28, 2008  
Clear amber look with a buzzing head and loads if tiny bubbles in the glass. Sweet caramel aroma and grassy hops. The flavor is mainly sweet and smooth with some fruity notes. Decent bitter finish and overall very drinkable.


 shigadeyo (2263), Harrison, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/104/513/20
Oct 21, 2008  

Pacific Northwest Vacation 2007

8/24/2007: Caffrey’s Irish Ale has a pale amber color and a creamy off-white head. The light flavor has a toffee quality and is not too bitter. It has a dry mid-palate and is barely sweet. This beer is very smooth, creamy, and mild mannered due to the nitrogen. Although this beer is not great, it is always enjoyable to drink, pairs with most food well, and goes down nicely. I really wish that Caffrey’s was still available in the United States. I miss it!

Draught (pint) at Irish Times Pub in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Rating #390 for this beer...


 DSG (1513), Tel Aviv, Israel
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/58/20
Oct 18, 2008  
(10/8/08) Draught at Heathrow airport in London. Clear amber color with a small white head. A rather malty aroma with some bread, light caramel, some grainy notes and a bit of hops. Sweetish flavor with some malt, bread and finishes with light hoppy bitterness and some metal. Quite light-bodied and watery. Drinkable but not good.


 Bullit (1374), Glasgow, Scotland
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/510/20
Oct 17, 2008  
Clear golden colour, fluffy white head. Aroma has faint malts. Taste is metallic and dry, with a slight bitter finish. Mediocre bitter.


 charlotte (2032), Vanløse, Denmark
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/59/20
Oct 10, 2008  
Dark golden colour with white creamy head.Aroma is bitter and grainy,feels thin with low carbonation soft mouth feels and hoppy finish.


 madquacker (719), Canberra ACT, Australia
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/54/103/59/20
Sep 29, 2008  
The much maligned widget goes off and pours a lovely but synthetic looking head and gold body. Pretty to look at. No real aroma and a bland cold cardboard taste. Quite watery.


 MrAleman (111), Wiltshire, England
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/52/102/52/20
Sep 27, 2008    Updated: Sep 28, 2008
Brought 4 cans from the chav shop. Shame they did not bother to keep it in the fridge.. Anyway! - Very watered down, strange white fuzzy smooth head, slight bitterness comes on. But really its too watery to be a great beer. Bitter aftertaste. Also causes crap hangover despite being watered down, Not good.



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