Great Lakes but Even Better Beer: A Review of Conway's Irish Ale by Great Lakes Brewing Co

While at my favorite beer store today I thought, "What kind of beer blogger doesn't review IPAs, APAs, $14 bottles of beer, hop monsters or basically whatever is the new hot thing in the beer world?" Well, me. The beer coward! So what if I'm like a woman and want to enjoy mild and dark flavors without putting my tongue on the gibbet. Speaking of which, while you're self-flagellating over there in your ivory beer tower with your tongue tacks I'll be over here drinking to fill up a review and then move on to more loftly things such as my thrift store record blog!

For me, as with most red ales, there's a low expectation of great satisfaction and a reasonable doubt that you're about to drink a mediocre beer. Though this, like everything I've ever tried from GLBC, is a winner, albeit not by much. There's a minus factor of nutty caramel with a few malt patties piling on to this fluffy mild ale. Miniscule hoppage to the point that it tastes like a speck of soil on your dirty tongue after kissing the cinnamon girl while down in the grass behind a barn under a rainbow frequented by two-horned unicorns. The rest is mostly clean water with a heavy concentrate of alcohol (6.5%) which is hardly detectable outside of the written word.

Alcohol by Volume: 6.5%
Hop Bitterness IBU's: 25

-Wörtwurst