Tastes

Nose: orange, green apple, oak, spiced chocolate, vanilla cream, caramel, Taste: sweet burnt caramel and chocolate with light apple and butter cookie. Ends with the Jameson floral honey oak note. Less flavorful than the IPA cask. Stout seems to lend itself more to texture than flavor

Nose: hops, floral, lemon, grapefruit, green apple,honeydew melon, icing sugar, caramel. Sharp orange juice. Taste: light hops and honeysuckle with a background of butter cookies and apple. Heavy hops and pine are quick to take over with marshmallows and bright unripe citrus. Ends with an oaky honey. If you dislike hops and IPAs stay away but if you don’t mind it makes for an interesting flavor

Nose: grapefruit, lemon, wet grass, hay, chocolate, pear, honey, honeysuckle, violets, parsley, caramel, toffee, melon, mint. Taste: toffee and caramel with butter cookies. Intense fruity finish with cantaloupe and pears. Finishes with a light oak and floral honey .

Nose: caramel, butterscotch, citrus, toffee, vanilla, Taste: watery vanilla cream, caramel, butterscotch, toffee, light rye spice in the back.

Nose: dryer sheets. I’m dead serious. Soft malt and cherry. Intense floral and dirt. Light peat. Vanilla cream, toffee, caramel. Taste: yeast and malt with dense citrus. Angel food cake. Finish of dryer sheet.

Nose: Apple, light fig, almost phenolic and Smokey. Shortbread cookie. Lemongrass. Icing sugar. Taste: vanilla, fig, bright red wine. Water brings out dirty floral notes like honeysuckle and hay. A generic wine sweetness throughout. Strong blonde caramel espresso. Lemon and grapefruit.

Nose: dark honey, fig, sherry, Taste: heavy malt, iodine sherry funk, almost pickle juice. Cherry, heavy oak Water opens it up immensely. Fruit cake malt. Floral, violets, roses, rich honey. Dark chocolate, espresso, Taste turns into intense oak and fruit cake with orange icing. Herbal notes come out as well.

Nose: Licorice, grapefruit, kiwi. An intense dark red wine. Bitter chocolate. Espresso. Mocha. Strong oak influence is apparent. Caramel. Toffee. Red apple. Plum, flower blossoms, Pepper, malt come out after a while Taste: shortbread cookie, crisp fresh red apple. Very sweet and bright citrus finish, almost like a sugared tangerine. Strong typical Irish herbal after taste. Slight banana bread as well. Water brings out the typical tropical Redbreast fruits of mango, guava, starfruit, and durian. Also brings out a dense floral honey and caramel.

Nose: dill. Dirt. Vanilla cream soda. Black pepper, light green apple. Cigar smoke. Brown butter, butter cookies. Toffee and baking spices. Time in the glass reveals more herbal qualities such as mint, thyme, and rosemary with a bread quality. Almost a little sweet lemon and honey. Taste: anise, dirt, vanilla cream, heavy oak burn. Light dill. Allspice cinnamon. Light citrus and dirty cigar smoke. Finish devolves into dark chocolate coffee and mocha and a kind of aged dark red wine tannin. Water intensifies the oak, herbal, fruity and spicy aspects without ramping down the other flavors. Finish turns into a tense oak and hot pepper bomb but it never gets too unbearable.

Nose: peaches. rye. anise and eucalpytus. bright navel oranges. sugary corn sweetness. charcoal. Taste: immediately sweet upfront then collapses into oak and intense rye spice. cinnamon, clove, allspice. finish mellows out with the peaches and banana.