Jarrow Red Ellen

Brewed by Jarrow Westoe
Style: Irish Ale
South Shields, England

Serve in English pint

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Tasted this at the Troon Beer Festival in September 2004. Cask, gravity dispense. Clear ruby red in colour with a thin white head. Slight roast grain note in the short aroma. Thin but creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Mixed malts give a rich digestive biscuit base with tart redcurrant fruit and roasted malt in the mouth. Dry spicy hop resins give a long aftertaste with no astringency. Finish is again dry with woody briar notes and a walnut flavour coming through. A decent Ruby Ale and worth trying.

cask@ maltings, it is red in colour with a lovely aroma and tastes fantastic

Cask @ Maltings, Shields. Ruby Red beer, nice white head, solid fruity body with a touch of sweetness. Really tasty, a very drinkable ale

Cask at GBBF 2010. A brown beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma has strong notes of malt, as well as medium notes of caramel and nuts, and light notes of butterscotch. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel as well as lighter notes of roasted malt and butterscotch, leading to a dry finish.

Cask @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, dark malt, light hoppy, citrus. Flavor is heavy to moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, dark malt bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100805]

[cask at Cloisters, Edinburgh] Deep, clear reddish brown with a thick cream-coloured head. Nose of sweet fruity malt. Touch of toffee or caramel at first on the taste, then gives way to bitterness before the bittersweet finish. Gets quite bitter after a while, the sweetness diminishes [01042011]

On gravity at the Tewkesbury Beer festival, 4/02/2011. Reddish amber in colour with a slight white head. Sweet malts and marmalade aroma. Flavour was similar, with plenty of fruit and some roastiness in the finish. Fine.

Cask @ Southampton Arms, Tufnell Park NW5. Pours a dark reddish color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma with some hopy hints. Fruity malty hoppy caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty sweetish hoppy finish.

1. Cask Stillage at the Boundary, Audenshaw 18/06/2004 2. Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 05/08/2010 Some roast aroma. Mid brown coloured fruity and a little rich on the palate with a hint of bitterness in a dry roast finish.

5th August 2010. GBBF.
Clear brown beer, no head. No carbonation. Light semi dry palate. Some sourish malt - that’s just about it!