Great Lakes Conways Irish Ale

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Irish Ale
Cleveland, Ohio USA

12 oz bottle courtesy Polomagnifico. Pours a dark amber with a thick tan head. Big caramel malt, bread, earthy hop aroma. Taste is smooth and malty, toasty with just a touch of hop bitterness. Nice easy drinking ale that would be a nice session beer if it were available locally.

Pours a dark amber color with a large white head. Aroma was very malty with some bread notes. Flavor was also very malty but with a little bit of citrus hops to balance this very good irish ale.

12oz. Bottle: A bit of a gusher. Sweet aroma. Smells of bread, malts, caramel, toasting, butterscotch and a bit of nuts. Poured amber in color with a very large, dense, tan head that lasted throughout. Clear. Sparkling. Very good lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet. Tastes of malts, caramel, bread, toasting, cream, and a little butterscotch. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Malty finish is a bit sweet.

12oz bottle. Aroma has notes of caramel, toasted malt, toasted bread, some earthiness to it as well. Clear medium red/amber hue with an average sized foamy off-white/tan head that mostly diminished and left little lace. Flavor is malty caramel, toast, earth, and finishes noticeably bitter. Palate is light bodied and watery soft. Not bad for the style. I liked it better than an amber ale but it’s still nothing outstanding. Just a solid brew and very good representation of the style.

Bottle. Pretty good Irish Ale. Not usually a big fan as they are usually pretty average styled beers. This is one of the better though. Amber pour with malty bready aroma. Fits the style & thats all you can ask for

Bottle from Canals. Amber pour with thin white head. An essence of sweet malt and hop. Flavor was pretty much the same with a yeasty bread finish. It was just ok for me.

Another good selection from GLBC, this is about as textbook irish ale as you can find. Pours a clean copper with a moderate not-quite-white head. The aroma is immediately malt with hints of roasted nuts, toast, and just a bit of dark fruit. The taste is much the same, very noticeable again are the roasty toasty malt notes with the faint fruity hops becoming more apparent as the beer warms. It finished relatively dry and clean with almost no lingering to speak of. Very ’textbook’....but in a good way.

Deep copper colored pour with a 1 finger, off-white head, and nice lacing. Roasted caramel malt aroma with notes of wet oak and dark fruit. Lots of dark caramel malt and pitted fruit flavor up front with a slightly floral hop finish and lingering toasted malt. Medium body.