Galway Hooker Irish Pale Ale
This is an exciting new style of beer that we call Irish Pale Ale. This delicious beer is pale in colour, has a full well balanced hop flavour and aroma, a good foamy head, a carbonation level similar to standard lagers.
Now you can, of course, make it as complicated as you like by adding various chemicals and preservatives to the beer so that it ferments and matures faster, has a longer shelf life and is cheaper to produce. However, as a small independent craft brewery, we believe in using traditional techniques and think that only the four basic ingredients of beer should be used to produce this wonderful, thirst quenching, “magic potion”. All we want to do is produce a pure and natural beer for the Galway market. Nothing more.
Now you can, of course, make it as complicated as you like by adding various chemicals and preservatives to the beer so that it ferments and matures faster, has a longer shelf life and is cheaper to produce. However, as a small independent craft brewery, we believe in using traditional techniques and think that only the four basic ingredients of beer should be used to produce this wonderful, thirst quenching, “magic potion”. All we want to do is produce a pure and natural beer for the Galway market. Nothing more.
3.2
228 reviews
Co Galway, Ireland
Community reviews
Prima IPA!
Tap at Front Door in Galway. Light, pale, a little malty, but fine. Mild bitterness.
Bottle in Galway.
Pours clear amber with a small beige head, light lacing. Toffee, bready, toasted malts, citrus.
Decent, clean.
Aroma of fruits, malt, bread and hints of citrus and grass. Golden with a white head. Medium sweet and medium bitter. Medium body with average carbonation. Dry and slightly bitter finish. Overall a decent, refreshing and easy drinkable Pale Ale.
Tape @ Hugos w friends/DØE fiddler. Appearance: pours clear amber with ok off-white soapy head and lacing. aroma/taste: barley, bread, biscuit, light berries and citrus notes. palette: medium malty and hoppy aroma, average carbonation, medium body, average sweetness, balanced by a medium bitterness, average duration and a watery texture. Overall: nice & easily drinkable ale
16.9 oz bottle pours amber with a off white head. Aroma of Malta and a hint of earthy notes. Taste is earthy and a little bitterness
500ml bottle: BB 28th Oct 18. Shared between four on 16th Dec 18, two months out of date! Golden pour, white crown. There seemed to be more maltiness than hoppiness and a strangley pleasant singed wood flavour in the finish. I liked it, but didn't get any citrus or hoppy notes like the reviews before me.
Draught at The Kings Head, Galway, Ireland. Poured a crystal clear golden amber with a few mm thick cap of white foam that laced poorly. Carbonation very low, slow and medium to coarse. Aroma of citrus (lemon, lime). Taste slightly of grapefruit, lemon and lime with hints of pine. Light body. Smooth and slightly dry with low bitterness on a short finish.
In einigen Irish Pubs gibt es dieses Bier auch am Festland Europas vom Fass.
Es ist ein fein gehopftes, angenehm bitteres Pale Ale mit leicht fruchtigen Ansätzen.
Not bad. Hoppy and Irish. Amber. Simple beer but enjoyable. Not sure where they came up with the idea that is was American Pale. I guess it did not fit any ratebeer category.
Bottle, Supervalue, Clifden. Golden pour, decent off white headm. Nose is malt and berries. Middle is biscuit, malt, touch of woody undertone. Finish dries somewhat. Solid beer.
Poured a light amber color with moderate carbonation. Smelled like a mixture of sweet bread, pint hops and citrus. Palatebwasbclean and smooth. Flavor had a moderate bitterness nicely balanced by a subtle sweetness and spiciness.
I lived in California for six years and would like to think of myself as somewhat of an IPA connoisseur...at least within the fine dive bars of San Francisco and my sad nights alone in a skag house. I have since moved back to Galway and this IPA surprised me more than anything else. It is my go-to IPA when Sierra Nevada Torpedo or similar is not available...
The most adventurous beer on tap in Vienna’s Flanagan’s. One of the most basic pale ales, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
On tap at Peter's pub Dublin. Golden colouro, medium head with long retention, good irregular lace.
Aroma of grain, hops, fruity and ester notes, citrics.
Full body, dense creamy texture, lively carbonation, with bubbles coming up all the time. Bitter finish.,
Taste is hoppy, but malt is there too, grains, apples.
One to enjoy and repeat.
Slightly hazy straw colour. Tangy citrus smell bordering on sour. Biscuity bready malt and pretty strong bitter finish with grapefruit pith notes. Mild sourness which could do without
Uit vroegere notities. Goudkleurig tot amberkleurig bier met witte schuimkraag. Geur: hoppig, grassig, C-hops, pompelmoes, licht zoet. Smaak: hopbitter, grassig, wat citrus, pompelmoes, wat harsachtig, met daarbovenop een redelijke dosis zoetigheid. Medium koolzuurprikkel. Afdronk: bitter, droog
On tap at Flanagans Irish Pub, Vienna. Shared with Charlie, Nick, Brad, Steve and Briggs. Clear golden. Lasting white head. Very fresh herbal hops with a touch of pines and raisin. Light bitterness. Light malts present. Light body, soft to moderate carbonation, light hoppy finish. Not bad.
Despite of what have been said, I like it. Good bitterness and smooth. It's not an IPA they just named as is but it looks like a lager.
Pours a clear deep gold colour with a small creamy off white head that settled to a thin layer. A sweet malty aroma, some buttery biscuit. A rich malty taste, again buttery biscuit, creamy in the mouth. A decent hop bitterness.
Tap at The Temple Bar, Dublin. Pours clear gold with a white head. Aroma seems floral. Med body or so. Flavor is floral and ryely malty. This is quite tasty. Reminds of the recent Guinness rye ale. Underrated IMHO.
Tap @ JW Sweetman, Dublin, shared with Niilstrong. Clear golden color, average sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, some hops, slightly a buttery bitterness, but hops overpower that. Decent body and carbonation. . Nice.
50cl flesje bij Durty Nelly, Amsterdam
Alcoholpercentage van 4,3%
Uitgeschonken in origineel Galway Hooker glas
Uiterlijk: goudkleurig met volle witte schuimkraag
Aroma en smaak: bloemig, hoppig, volle straffe bitter
Conclusie: veel smaak voor 4,3%
On tap at the Vat house Dublin. Quite disappointing actually as the beer is very low in hop aroma and taste, there is some dough and cara presence and some bitterness that can be harsh at moments although it dissipates quite quickly. Not that well rounded and can be hard to drink a full pint.
Irish Pale Ale? Not really a style is it? Is it possible they just want to use the letters IPA for something that is not remotely an IPA? Even leaving claimed style apart, this is a very ordinary and bland beer, barely above a commercial lager in quality. Far better beers available for the price.
Nice aroma of grassy hops. Grainy malts. Very strong, slightly bitter hops flavour with grassy tones. It’s pretty nice.
Tap. Pours clear golden with white head. Aroma has light malt, bread and biscuit and hops with grass and hay. Taste is light malty with bread and biscuit yet bitter and aromatically hoppy with grass and hay. Finish is dry and moderately bitter.
En afbalanceret humle og sødme. En typisk engelsk øl der er nem at drikke..
Light grain malts, light caramel. Clear gold, medium, creamy, white head. Light bitter. Some sweet grain and cereal malts coming up, creamy, then turning bitter and dry in the finish, fizzy carbonation. OK APA, nothing too spectacular though, very light in aroma. Keg at W. J. Kavanagh, Dublin.
Bottle from local wholesale distributor, served in 20 cl shaker. Not to be uncharitable, but this neither an IPA or an APA by taste or aroma, but a malt soup without any real hoppiness; without the "IPA" label, I might have taken it for a lager off the bat. You get more character from Carlsberg’s faux-IPA/APA’s.