Mash House Irish Red

Brewed by The Mash House Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Irish Ale
Fayetteville, North Carolina USA

Draft at brewery. Nice amber color. Caramel, malt, bread. Not bad overall.

Very sweet. Maybe too sweet. Lots of caramel, no hops, some more sugary malt flavors over power this one. They didn’t have a season due to the cost of hops, I’m wondering if they took out all hops in here because I tasted none. Lots of apple flavor.

Date: 12/18/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear amber, wispy off white head, light sweet caramel malt aroma, nice bitter hop flavor balanced by the caramel malt that has just a hint of sweetness, needs more character

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4
-------- /> Name: Ravishing Red
Date: 04/12/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewfest, Hickory Hops

Appearance: clear dark amber, frothy off white head,
Aroma: sweet bready dark caramel malt aroma with a light tartness,
Flavor: sweet caramel malt flavor, light bready character, balanced with a lactic tartness,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.8/5.0
Drinkability: 3/10
Score: 4

on tap-pours a thin off white head and copper color. Aroma is faint sweet. Taste is medium malt, sweet, hops bite. OK carbonation.

Sampled at the brewpub; copper colored and still, this is a well-balanaced flavorless brew. Lightly bittered maybe, but not much here overall. Among the shallowest beers I tried here. (#2804, 4/21/2007)

Not a bad ale, but not very exciting either. A tad sweet, tasting of barley and malted notes. A boquet primarily of caramelzed malt. A decent, easily drinkable brew.

Draught. Looks pretty darn red, though quite translucent. The aroma is very faint and non-descript, just kind of sweet. I found the flavor to resemble a lollipop quite strongly, it is definitely just a hair too sugary for my taste, especially considering there is not much else in the way of flavor. The hop character is low to zero and there isn’t much else to make this complex. It is a sweet, malty, easy drinking beer. It definitely captured the style’s general attitude.

From notes 9/16/03: Pours a virtually clear light amber color. You can see through all the way to the bottom here. Aromas were subtle, if not absent all together. Slight slight malt tones in the air. The beer menu says this one is brewed with Horizon hops...never heard of them before. Upon glancing through my "Brewmaster’s Bible" book at home, they’re not listed there either. I must assume that the Horizon hop is bland and negligible, because I couldn’t find any trace of a hop character in this. A touch watery, very thin. Supposed to be "light bodied" and it most definitely is. Not as malty as I enjoy in an Irish ale.