Belhaven Twisted Thistle IPA (USA) (Bottle)

Brewed by Belhaven (Greene King)
Style: American Pale Ale
Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland

On tap at International Beer Garten (Tampa, FL). Pours a generally clear dark orange to amber color with a thin white head. Aroma is sweet and floral with light notes of citrus, grapefruit, pine, floral hops, some light caramel and honey. Flavor is also sweet and floral with notes of caramel, malt, pine, light notes of citrus, grapefruit, floral hops. Generally light to medium body with a pleasing floral hop finish. Decent IPA.

pours a cloudy amber-orange with a small white head, and okay lacing. smell is of slight grapefruit, some caramel, and a touch floral. taste is creamy, citrus, some caramel, few malts, some wood, and hops in the back, ends bitter and a little dry.

Served in a shaker at the Austin Flying Saucer. Pours clear gold with one finger head. Smoky aroma over floral hops. Nice carbonation and a crisp aftertaste. An unusual and very drinkable IPA.

Bottle. Clear gold pour with a small white head. Aroma of pine and floral hops, malty, earth caramel and a bit of butter. Flavor was bitter hops, earth, dirth. lots of bitterness and astringency. Decent IPA.

On tap. The pour was clear amber with a white head that produced decent lacing. The aroma was stale hops, malt and grainy. The flavor was grainy, pine hops and a bit of malt. Tasted stale and old. The mouthfeel was thin to medium in body. Abrupt finish.

Bottle. Pours with a small, white head over a clear golden body. Aroma is grassy hops, grain, malts, honey. Taste is pretty bitter upfront, but lacks any real hop taste or profile (like they added a bunch of hops at the start of the boil, and then none towards the end). A bit of caramel and chalk after the hops. Water like mouthfeel with medium carbonation.

3,95$ for 500 ml at SAQ. Recent but not that great product from those bozos working there (governmental society; they’re so scared about the idea of diversifying the choice). The aroma and the taste have something unpleasant in it, like chalk, aspirin, and a watery thin texture. Very dry mouthfeel but also unpleasant. Some grapefruit, that turns into aspirin again. I didn’t like that one at all; so much I wonder if the bottle was OK... ADDED: I rated 221 beers and I forgot I rated this one; how do Ungstrup and Papsoe keep it up? All in all, it is not as bad as my previous 3-3-3-3-9 rating; hopefully you won’t read this rating and you will not associate this hop dryness to Aspirin (too late; enjoy your medication!). But I still don’t enjoy this beer very much.

Bottle as shown. Pours a cloudy orange amber with a small creamy white head that diminshes quickly and leaves behind good sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is floral and cascade hops with citrus. The taste is a dry hop with a crisp bitter finish. A good amercian pale ale from Belhaven.