Four Peaks McCarthys Red

Tap at Tempe
Poured a dark mahogany with a small but thick head and lacing.Hoppy, citrus IPA like aroma with a medium hops and spice flavor and light toasty easy drinking finish.

Tap @ Tempe location. Sweet malty fruity aroma. Body dark red with light tan head. Good lacing present. Medium fruity and syurpy body makeup for the flavor. Some hop bitternes present also. Medium dry finish on the palate.

On Tap: A very stiff small bubbly offwhite head sat atop a deep reddish-brown mahogany colored beer with some nice lacing. The aromas were of citrus, malts, pine, lemon. The flavor was light with some hops and very smooth sweet mouthfeel. Almost a fruity and maple syrup taste. I assumed it was an amber ale or an irish ale, kind of suprised to see an ale categorization it tasted a little like and ESB to me.

Amber color. Lovely, rich, complex, mostly hoppy aroma with malts balancing it out. Wonderful mildly bitter hoppy flavor with sugars in it. Just lovely. Makes you pay attention. It's not passive (thoug it's not as aggressive as something, say, from Stone (and I mean that with ALL due respect to that wonderful brewery!)). Very good.

Coppery red with medium off-white head. Sweet malty aroma. Taste is fairly smooth, very accessible, but with decent maltiness. Well-balanced, with good body and a touch of bitterness in the swallow.

(Draught)

The beer dispenses from the tap a slightly hazy reddish-amber color; the head is modest in size and frothy in texture, the color a light tan, with a nice sheet of lace. Nose is crisp and sweet malt, fresh and clean with the start nicely malt and somewhat sweet, top is middling in its feel to the palate. Finish is crisp in its acidity, the hops pleasantly spicy, dry aftertaste, a nice Arizona summer beer.