Grays Irish Ale

Brewed by Grays Brewing Company
Style: Irish Ale
Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Draft at the Tied House. Filtered amber-copper color. Patchy, oily head. Bitter, with a solid malty backbone, solid balance between the amber malt and the bittering hops. A touch watery still, not thick, a touch stronger than typical Gray’s fare, but still fails to surpass regularity.

Ruby-brown pour with light tan head. Aroma of malt and caramal. Nice flavor- malty, caramel, semi-sweet. Easy to drink, goes down nice and easy. Left a nice aftertaste.

Thanks to Skyview! Copper color with a thin head. Sweet grain, bread and caramel aroma. Rich malt flavor. Moderate caramel and nut notes. Dry and earthy finish. Simple, but quite nice!

A couple pitchers of these on St. PAtty’s Day weekend. Poured an orangeish copper colour with medium sized white head. Creamy top, whether you believe it or not. Aroma is faint, find a picture to paint. With soft caramel, wheat and peat. Taste is light but satisfying."

(Tap) Pours a reddish amber color with very little head. Strong butterscotch in the aroma, with sweet caramel malts also being pretty prominent in the nose. Sweet toffee and stale hop in the taste. Some nut possibly in there as well. Under all of this is a cloying sweetness, with lots of buttery flavor as well. This really took away from the enjoyment of the beer, in my opinion. This possibly had to do with the fact I had this beer at the end of October, which appears to be out of season. Regardless, drinkability on this one is pretty good despite the problems I mentioned above.

Gray’s Irish Style Ale pours a red/mahogany hue with a half-finger of creamy offwhite head. Aroma is quite malty (misleading sweet scent). My first thought is amber or red ale. More bitterness than I expected upon first taste. Definitely due to some of the more common American hop varieties. Hard to describe, but this is pretty much a standard ale flavor...if someone wanted to know what an ale might taste like, I’d use something like this to differentiate between the crispness that I associate with many traditional lagers. Gray’s Irish Ale isn’t sweet, but it has a pretty wide open scale that lends a sort of sweetness. Very much a session ale on the drinkability scale.

Date: 08/07/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

Appearance: hazy amber, wispy off white head, bits of lace,
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma with light earthy hops,
Flavor: sweet caramel malt flavor, lots of butterscotch adds to the sweetness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

Smells of rising barley and malts, carries a light tan head with a scotch red body. Taste mutch like a scotch ale from yhe other island. Palate weakens to a watery finish. I will be recycling empty bottles of these come March 18th.