3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Marks and Sparks as ’Southwold Winter IPA’. Light amber pour with a white head. Citrus, pear and nuts in the aroma. Quite floral too. Light fruit flavours with a little citrus. Hoppy finish. Not too bad.
3.8 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Pours a brilliant golden orange with a smallish off white coloured head. Nice looking beer. Simply brilliant aromas of light caramel, strawberry jam and some sweet citrus. Amazing stuff. Flavours dont quite hold up unfortunately. Plenty of light caramel sweetness initially followed by a decent resiny bitterness on the finish, Thin to medium mouthfeel. Really good beer.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Aroma - This beer has a very floral, almost flowery aroma, with hints of citrus and tropical fruit, as well as some honey and caramel.
Appearance - Pours a clear golden, orangish body, with a frothy beige head. Some lacing and decent head retention. The beer does look like an American IPA, but the appearance is not super impressive.
Taste - Starts out with a pretty solid hop bite, with a little spiciness to it. Fairly sweet, with hints of honey and toffee. I was getting loads of fruit notes (pineapple, apples, mangoes, some citrus). The after-taste has some moderate bitterness and a biscuity undertone to it. Not very bready.
Palate - The mouthfeel is very smooth. Medium-bodied, low in carbonation, and very soft on the palate, with just a little bit of a pepper-like spiciness (which only complements the general feel of it all).
Drinks well, but I wouldn’t call this beer sessionable nor quaffable. At a fairly high ABV, it goes down very easily, but you will start to feel it in your body, nevertheless.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from Marks & Spencer, London. Aroma hints of caramel and grass. It pours a golden yellow with a white foam that disappears almost instantly. Taste is medium bitter and medium sweet. Quite ordinary mouthfeel, regular carbonation.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Clear pale amber with a small off-white head. Restrained aroma of peaches, earth., flowers, orange zest. Thinnish body with just a whisper of carbonation. Lots of aromatic hops and bitterness upfront - citrus and pine - as well as stone fruit and biscuity malt. Modest sweetness is fruit dominated, bitterness with remaining aromatics comes through at the finish. Can’t see a date on this and there’s certainly not much citrus in the nose - perhaps this was a bit past it.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle in M&S presentation. Amber/orange with a white head. Good US citrus hop profile without the kick of many new IPAs. Balanced and well brewed. Quite a shock to me, having been drinking Adnams for 35 years!
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled, 500ml from The Cellar & Kitchen, Southwold, Suffolk, very fancy Dan bottle & labelling. Orange gold with white head. The aroma is wonderful, zesty, grapefruit with a promising alcohol note, lovely. The flavour has a lot to live up to, it does fall a little short, but again it is zesty and fresh, with a light pine wood astringency running through, the malty body and alcohol match nicely, there is fresh hay in the finish. It was pricey, but worth it.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a light straw with a small white head. Nose has citric and pine aromas on it. Mainly orange zest and grapefruit. Big on the citrus throughout the flavour. Pale malts and caramel also play a part. Good brew
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