#Hello my fellow beer lovers!!
This is my third installment in the Irish Craft beers series. For those of you not familiar, I plan to taste one Irish beer every week, and then rate and review it for all of you wonderful Steemians

It's been great so far, and although last weeks beer disappointed, it was still great to try a new Irish craft beer. Through these reviews, I hope to try every craft beer in the country, ending up with a top five that I can recommend to people.

So last Friday, on the way home from work I bought a couple of these IPAs, I had tasted their bigger brother The Devils backbone, but had never tried the IPA. I actually planned to review The Devils backbone, but then I had a bottle of Scraggy Bay and I swiftly changed my mind, that one will have to wait for another week.

So as you can see, my beer of the week this week is.....

Kinnegar Scraggy Bay Indian Pale Ale

Intro

As I said, this was an IPA I hadn't tasted before, so I could hardly wait to crack the lid and try it. It really didn't disappoint. On initial inspection, I liked the look of the bottle - taller than most 500ml bottles and a nice simple design.

I Popped the lid, and straight away the sweet fruity hop smells hit my nostrils. I could tell I was going to like this one. It really hit the spot, and ticked many of the boxes for me. In fact this one was so good, I said I'd have to jazz up the photo with some fresh tulips that my wife had lying around :o)

Review

I poured this one into my trusty tasting glass - it poured a golden amber colour, with a slight haze. The head was a decent size, faded quite quickly, but enough coverage remained for my satisfaction. There was quite a lot of carbonation apparent and a decent amount of lacing noticeable on the glass too. There is a lot of flavour going on here, with bitter fruit to the fore - grapefruit, lime, possibly blood orange. This is balanced well with light biscuit malt sweetness, and maybe a hint of caramel. Some pine too on the aftertaste, a real cacophony of flavours and they compliment each other well, without being over complicated.

So check your local off license, and see if you can get one of these, it comes highly recommended.

I enjoyed this one with a bit of sushi - beer and sushi always a good combination. the cold beer cools down the wasabi nicely!

Stats

• Brewer: Kinnegar Brewing Limited, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Rep of Ireland
• Alcohol Content: 5.3%
• Size: 500ml/50cl bottle
• What they say: Fondly known as “Yellowcap”, Scraggy Bay is a balanced golden ale with a snappy little bite of hops.

Rating

4.25/5

This is a post for #BeerSaturday hosted by @detlev

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The other reviews of Irish beers can be found here if you are interested:

Irish Beer Review 1 Mcgargles Cousin Rosies
Irish Beer Review 2 The Foxes Rock IPA

All of the photos are mine and were taken with my Samsung Galaxy A5