Grays Irish Ale

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

Serve in English pint

Bottle. From sampler pack. Copper color - slightly cloudy. Good. Sweet and malty, as the description says. Some roastiness and hop bitterness in background.

Orange/amber pour with off-white head. Sweet, malty aroma with notes of caramel. Somewhat fruity. Flavor is sweet with a very slight floral bitterness in the finish. Medium body - chewy, sticky. OK session ale.

A darkish clean copper with a medium head. Aroma is pretty faint. Light caramel malts and some grains. As for the flavor....The rater below sums it up with the musty description. Musty malts and hops. A dryish bitter finish.

Cloudy Amber Coloring with Sandy Head. Lightly Toasted Caramel Malt Aroma. An Interesting Mix of Malt...Dry Dusty Malt, Caramel...Oats/Nutty Notes...Dry Musty Finish..

This beer is not dry like the Great Lakes Conways Irish Ale I had recently; instead it is lightly sweet (but somehow unsatisfying) and very thin feeling. Not a huge fan... This beer pours a dark ruby red with good white head formation. Aroma is a lightly sweet malt smell, with perhaps some honey flavors? It smells a bit like a honey brown to me. Flavor is lightly sweet, with a very thin mouthfeel. This beer is rather drinkable.

Pours light copper with off-white tan head. Good malt and caramel aroma with a flavor to match. Decent.

Orange/amber with a thick tan head. Very effervescent. Aroma of caramel and sweet malt. Flavors are more of the same. Smooth finish. Pretty good interpretation of the style.

Bottled. Poured a slightly murky coppery-orange with a quickly-receding cap of off-white head. Nose was of sweet pulled caramel, earth, and herbal pine notes. Flavor was of sticky caramel with earth and mild herbal bitterness.... light on the palate at first, but became sticky toward the finish. Not a bad session ale, but rather one-dimensional.