Harpoon Celtic Ale

Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: Irish Ale
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint

This beer poured a brownish read with a medium white head. There was a nice sweet bread aroma along with mild fruits. There is not maltiness to this better than hops, but overall smooth. Carbonation is moderate and mouthfeel is clean and crisp.

pours a clear rusty red. tastes of sweet caramel malts, some black tea, minor hopping, pleasant finish. pandering to their local clientel a bit but can’t blame them for that.

12 oz. bottle in a snifter. Clear red pour with no head. Cider and alcohol aroma. Very light flavor for an amber. Mildly hoppy. Not bad, very drinkable, but nothing special.

Bottle. Celtic Ale pours a clear chestnut amber color with a thin beige head that quickly recedes. Aroma of roasted caramel malts. Flavor is quite nice and malty with a bith of hop bitterness in the finish. Prickly carbonation on the tongue. Decent.

translucent amber, thin but lasting beige head, watery yet sticky medium body, medium carbonation.

aroma: grainy roasted malt, leafy hops.

taste: grainy caramel malt, stale crackers, leafy hops.

thin, and the malt character seems overly stretched.

From tap at Sunset Grill. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is roasted malty and slight caramelish. Sweet, roasted and malty flavoured. Slight bitter and malty. Roasted malty finish.

12oz bottle. Pours a deep amber brown color with a medium dense white head that falls to a ring. A sweet malty aroma and flavor fill the nose and mouth with a touch of hops that shows through. The finish is sweet and malty. Medium to full bodied.

12oz bottle poured out reddish brown nice color. aroma was of sweet malts and maybe it was just me but the initial flavor was bubblegum. if this is suppose to be and irish red maybe i dont understand what malts they used but i know what i was tasting. not saying its back but just different.