Great Lakes Conway's Irish Ale
A malty beer with a notable toasty flavor derived from lightly roasted malt. Slight fruit and hop accents add to the overall complexity.
Available Mid-January to late March
Available Mid-January to late March
3.3
599 reviews
Cleveland, United States
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Pint on tap at Winking Lizard Penisula. Ohio. Thin white head with some film on glass. Very malty, some carbonation. Smooth on the palate with no after taste. Very drinkable. Very nice beer for the style! Cheers!
Very malty, Toasty, coppery? OK if there's nothing better to drink.
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Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a dark orange almost amber color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that fell off at a good pace. Light stringy lace.
The aroma had some grassy sweet to bitter hops over top of a nice caramel/toffee base malt. Light pomme-like fruits then some bready sweetness. Ends with some toast.
The flavor had a decent blend of toast sweetness to malt sweetness with a touch of leafy to slight low herbal quality. Aftertaste had some nuts, the leafiness and the herbal quality. Pillowy sweet finish.
The feel was almost medium bodied, seemed like it sat just a tad under. I didn’t mind as it seemed just where I would want an Irish red ale to sit on my tongue. Carbonation felt good. ABV felt as projected by the brewer.
Overall, what’s not to love with this one. Great Lakes did a stellar job with this one and if I lived closer in it’s distro, I wouldn’t mind slamming this one back during St. Paddy’s Day.
EBD 3/29/17. Medium clear amber pour with a beautiful garnet cast. Normal head volume, lacing and retention.
Outstanding rich malty nose with light fruit esters. The malt is caramel, as expected from the color, mostly but underneath is a nice toasty biscuit. The fruit esters are a bit ethereal and add a nice airiness to the bouquet. Apple and pear are the predominate notes with a touch of something sweeter underneath.
Light medium body, almost medium, with a smooth texture that is slick. The carbonation / body balance is outstanding. The middle is just effervescent enough to open the flavors up. The finish is prickly and finely bubbled.
The flavor profile is very good and well represents the style. It begins with a slight hop note that is grassy then shits to herbal. Herbal will remain the dominate influence. The middle hints at sweetness just enough to allow apple and pear to emerge over a light herbal bitterness. Surprisingly, caramel is underplayed while the toasty biscuit aspects take center stage. This characteristic provides a nice nutty background that competes with herbal hops for preeminence from the middle on. The finish is a slow fade of this competition and actually offers the sweetest palate influence.
Bottle. Enjoy by 03/29/17. The appearance consists of a medium sized fizzy khaki head with a short retention, transparent amber orange body, lively, fast rising carbonation observed, and no lacing. The aroma has a hint of hops, hint of fruit, toffee, sweet, bready, caramel, and toasted malt. The flavor presents light bitterness, light fruit, some toffee, caramel, and toasted malt. The mouthfeel is light carbonation and this beer is light-medium bodied. Overall, this is an easy drinking beer and a beer that I might consider drinking again.
Malty aroma with a thin white head and little lacing. Solid malt flavor that ends with a distinct hoppy taste.
Paid $1.50 for a single 12floz bottle with a BBD 04.14.2017. Consumed from a mug glass 03.16.2017. What we have here is an amber ale in the Irish tradition, and it does a fine job of being true to style. Albeit a tad high ABV wise. Anyway, it has a copper body with a soft off-white head. A malty beer, where the cereal grains call to order a sweet doughy aroma and flavor. A hearty medium-bodied ale good for late winter/early spring swilling.
Aroma: Fruit and bread
Appearance: Clear light brown red colour.
Taste: Malty then dry, flowers and slight citrus.
Palate: Oily
Overall: Malty, sweet and salty experience.
Pours a dark amber/red with a thin white head. Heavy malt aroma some sweetness. taste follows the nose. Overall a pretty good beer.
Dark red appearance with sweet hops and a peaty malt body with a bready aftertaste.
Aroma is sweet, malty, bready, fruity, potpourri maybe, interesting. Appearance is red, light tan head, hazy. Taste is bready, very very grainy, wheat chaff but not wheat, a weird grainy dry flavor I can’t put my finger on, it’s not bad though. Mouthfeel is light to medium body, light crisp carbonation, grainy aftertaste. Overall, it’s good but I wish I could identify that flavor.
Bottle - A bit more bitter than I tend to want in my beer. Overall it is acceptable.
Bottle from Liquor Barn. This was my first Irish Ale. Lots of malt as advertised, pretty much nothing but cloying malt as far as I could tell.
Aroma wafts with a nice toasted bready flavor, could smell it while pouring the beer. Appearance has a clean filtered body that you can see through the glass, though had a very thin head. Medium carbonation with an oily palate. Boasts of hop aroma/taste but to me was very malt forward. A very clean enjoyable drinking beer.
Pours a clear dark reddish color with a foamy off white colored head. Very fruity nose with some brown sugar and burnt bread.
Bottle directly from bottling line. Pristine Amber-copper pour. Nose of gently sweet and toasted malt, cereal, bit of spice. Flowery, gently citric noble hop. Now the sip. Very solid balance of ingredients. Malt has just enough depth while remaining on the dry side, and flowery hops meander with softened citrus rind to balance. In the world of extreme beers, this ones a great example of balance.
Clear light brown color with a definite malty profile. Easy to drink although I’m not a huge fan of this style.
Pours a nice amber color. Not a lot of aroma, sweet malt with a hint of fruit/hops. Flavor is malty, with a touch of bitterness
Reddish colored pour from the bottle. Taste is caramel, malt, wood, grain and light hops.
Bottle, Ann Arbor, MI via Plum Market. Dark gold. Active carbonation. Metallic caramel malt aroma. Some floral. Sweet. Somewhat thick. Caramel finish.
Not great, not awful. Pours a clear orange color with a little foam. The aroma is mild caramel, sweet fruit, nuts, grass. The flavor is adds apple and sweet tea notes. I didn’t hate it.
Strange aroma....almost like an acidic tomato. Very weird. The initial taste is almost veg-like and fills the nasal. I like the slight sour and burn left on the palate. This is good.
On tap at Beggar's. Nice red color. Pretty thin white head. Solid taste and appropriate for this time of year.
Bottled. Has a dark brown color. Has a big malty taste. A sweet taste. A hint of grassy hops.
DATE TASTED: March 17, 2016... GLASSWARE:Brew at the Zoo pint.. OCCASION: St. Patrick’s Day--observed with an appropriate Irishman... APPEARANCE: dark orange amber, almost browning, body that cascades bubbles in a balanced and full manner; the head is off-white creamy and thick, holding at a full finger... the glass drain approaches lacing appearing almost as webbing... AROMA: surprisingly hoppy, with tangerine and mango wafting with flowery scents to evoke a pale without the resin... oven-raised dough and caramel make for a balanced suggestion--hearty yet accessible... PALATE: immediate presence at the throat, kicking open the door with its maltiness and leaving a thick, toasted residue in its wake... the hops soften at the teeth, with little suggestion or staying power there... medium-bodied, warming (at 6.5%, formidable) and worth mulling over after each sip... lively...TASTE: the toastiness is overt, with toffee and caramel demanding attention... the hops are light and afford some fruitiness--apple, tangerine... a slight basement dankness is winning, as it adds strength to each sip... some nuttiness and buttery hints jam as many different angles into the profile as it seems possible... OVERALL: Great Lakes continues to impress, this time with a style that comes across as a workingman’s ale braced for the month of March... flavorful, refreshing, bolstering...definitely worth the six I picked up just for the holiday...
Draft. Pours copper with thick off-white head that dissipates quickly; some lacing. Light bready malt aroma. Malty biscuit with caramel notes. Some bitterness in the finish.
Draft at the Irish Pol. Clear dark amber pour with white foam. Lots of dissipating wet lace. Medium-dark caramel malts. Quite sweet. Brown sugar. Hard candy. Amber fruit. Apricots. Mandarins. Hints of coffee and cola.
On tap at Ellyn’s Tap & Grill in Glen Ellyn, IL., dispensed to a shaker displaying a clear & bright amber color, with a decent layer of tan head foam creating a wavy band of lacing that reduced to spots & strands as the liquid diminished. The nose was slightly earthy and toasted, with some biscuity & nutty hints, and a bit of caramel sweetness. Medium bodied, with fair carbonation, the taste added hop bitterness that was slightly roasted and earthy, a hint of woodiness/peat, and touches of tannic tartness & dryness to the finish. Offered a little Scottish flair, but very representative of the style.
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---Rated via Beer Buddy
strong malt aroma. light amber in color and clear in color with nice head. taste is mostly malty, slight hop finish. a little light in body