Bitter End Lakeland IPA

Formerly brewed at Bitter End (UK)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Cockermouth, England

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle. Clear deep golden with small off-white head. Flaovur is malt, caramel, little sweet, hops, little bitter, citrus and a little toffee.

(Bottle) Golden, no head. Aroma of stone fruit, toffee, pear drops. Full body, medium fine carbonation. Flavour of of stone fruit, candy, toffee, pear drops. Excellent.

To me IPAs should have something to say on a given axis but this is too wimpy. Pours almost flat from the bottle, taste is fine but a little too cat-piss and ultimately has a nasty off taste from lack of carbonation.

(Bottle 5/7-2011) Clear yellow color, creamy taste, no real bitterness, medium sweet. I would not call it an IPA but an APA, it still got American hops.

050711 Cockney pup beer tasting: Golden Engesk IPA as although there ware used American hops (Simcoe and Casade) it is a little dull IPA without much hop flavor. However, overall a good type of English IPA, you just can not taste the U.S. so much, but it is also used First gold.

Bottle at Cockermouth tasting Cockney Pub. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Dark yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Creamy palate.

Bottle @ Cockney pub tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are nice and hoppy, caramel, fruits, flowers and malt.

Live rate. Bottle from Booth’s. Pours marmalade with a fine veil of haze and a loose, dispersing foam. Buttery shorbread and celery dunked in stewed tea aroma- very Yorkshire. Brazen armpit as it warms. Suck of slate, plethora of dunked biscuits inc Rich tea and shortbread. Buttery but in a clean, dripping corn on the cob kind of way. Good- reminds me of Ilkley’s IPA, but badly missing an infusion of hops- where did the Simcoe go??

[500ml bottle, gift from Jim - cheers!] Amber with a moderate creamy head and moderate fizz. Piney, floral aroma. Creamy, almost cloying mouthfeel. Muted flavour of caramel and earth, with just a hint of tropical fruits. A mouth-numbing dry and hoppy finish. Rather disappointing compared to the IPAs I had yesterday from Chiltern and Lovibonds.

Bottle: Deep golden, a bit hazy, smaller stable and lacy off-white head; fresh floral-hoppy nose, sweet juicy malt underneath; moderate bitter-sweet flavour, medium bodied, smooth; slightly lingering aromatic hoppy finish, balanced by sweet malt. Not so heavy like the american samples, but nevertheless likeable....