Taps Irish Red

Brewed by Taps Fish House and Brewery
Style: Irish Ale
Brea, California USA

Serve in English pint

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Draft. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, straw, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, and bread. The body is thick.

From tap at the brewpub. Pours golden hazzlenut brown with a small off-white head. Breadish and roasted malt aroma. Roasted breadish malt flavoured. Light bitterness and subdued roasted flavours. Roasted and delicate bitter finish.

On tap. Clear amber golden with an off-white head. Sweetish aroma of roasted malts. Medium body, roasted malt with a little caramel. Finishes dry with a whiff of sulphur. 060709

Draft @ the Brea location. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel aroma. Fruity malty caramel flavor with hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with hoppy hints in the aftertaste.

(Draught) Pours a clear orange body with a medium white head. Aroma of mustiness, grain, roasted malt, and caramel. Flavor of grain, grass, bread, caramel, and light butterscotch.

Date: 12/03/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

clear gold, wispy off white head, dry caramel malt flavor, well balanced hops, light lingering bitter finish

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

On tap. Pours with a clear amber body and a small tan head. Aroma reminds me of irish whiskey for some reason, light fruit notes, dry and possibly burnt caramel. Taste is fruity, grainy, dry, diacetyl. Slick mouthfeel, medium fizz. My least favorite Taps beer that I have tried to date.

Reddish pour, light head. Aroma has some nice resiny hops and some bready malts. Flavor is hoppy, malty, caramel, bread.

A: The pour is a medium to dark amber color with with an off-white head on top. S: The aromas are pretty standard for a red ale: sweet caramel and toasted, biscuity malts. There isn’t much in the way of hop aroma. T: The nose led me to believe this would be a pretty decent (though not amazing) red ale. However, I was gravely disappointed. The flavor had some initial sweet, caramel maltiness followed by a very off flavor that I can only describe as olives. M: The body is medium and the carbonation is quite lively. D: The off, olive flavor really ruins this beer. I was really glad I only got a taster glass rather than a full pint of this beer.

Pours reddish with no head. Aroma of toffee and caramel malts. Sweet initially with caramel and toffee with a moderately bitter finish. Well made like most of their offerings.