Its Saint Patrick’s Day today, a time to drink and eat good traditional Irish food and beer! Instead of doing the normal and just doing another Guinness beer review for this glorious day, I decided to pick up a six pack of Ohio’s own Great Lakes Brewing Co. Conway’s Irish Ale.   It’s a 6.5ABV and 25 IBU, time to dive in.

The beer pours a very nice deep copper color, great reds and browns blending together to make a very good looking beer. The head doesn't stick around for long at all, and I wasn’t able to see any carbon bubbles coming up from the bottom. What head the beer had was a white color with soapy bubbles, but it really didn’t stick around long enough to appreciate.

The nose of this beer has a very nice sweet maltyness to it. There’s a caramel aroma that goes right along with the malts, and there seemed to be the slightest bit of fruit, something like a plum or another dark fruit.

                Taking the first drink the malty, caramel flavors do stick right out there. There was a little bit of hops but this beer definitely leans on the malts.   I wasn’t able to pick up the flavor of the dark fruits or plumb that I got from the smell, and to be honest it seemed a little bit watery.   Letting the beer sit for a minute and come to temperature a mild grainy flavor starts to show up, and that makes the alcohol stick out a little bit too.  The liquid feels a little bit thicker than water and the carbonation is pretty good.  

                Drinkability wise, I would say the beer is pretty good. It’s got a lighter body and good flavor. It’s not going to be hard to kick a few back on your Saint Patties day, night. And overall I think this is a decent beer, however I don’t find anything that special about it. It’s a little watery but has good flavor, it’s not a very complex beer. The head was almost nonexistent and there was little to no lacing.

   Be adventurous though, try something other than Guinness this year (not that I don’t endorse drinking Guinness) go pick up a six pack and check it out for yourself!