BrewDog 5 A.M. Saint

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Amber Ale
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Had ad bottle a Bottle Screw Bills in YYC while rushing for a Red Arrow bus. Hazy, medium amber body with a good-sized, off-white, fully lasting head that covers the glass in lacing. Good start! Super fruity aroma that is all hops, for the most part grapefruit, but there might be some pine and resin there as well. Despite the hoppy aroma the taste is initially light sweet, that’s a nice touch! Then the finish comes, and it is of course aggressively bitter and delicious. A subtle sweet malty caramel flavour is followed and partially mixed with a firm grapefruit flavour. Medium body, soft carbonation, quite dry feel. It’s a bit like a more complex, more interesting, beefed-up and hoppy version of an Amber Ale. Fucking doctors strike again.

Bottled. Pours deep amber with a head that goes fast. Immediate release of a pungent, floral, hoppy aroma which is the most striking feature of the beer. Overall the beer has hops in abundance from start to finish, but bitterness balanced by malt sweetness. Yet another good one from the Brew Dog stable.

Half pint at Euston Tap, Euston Road, London. As is typical of the BrewDog range this has a strong, fruity aroma mixed with hops - berries this time as opposed to some of its more tropical fruit-based label mates. It doesn’t smell like you expect beer to smell, which is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on your sensibilities; for me it’s the former. The taste is a big surprise - definite hints of cocoa mixed in with the fruity hops. A little fizzy in the mouth so perhaps not as smooth on the palate as it could be but still rather good.

(Bottle) Pours dark amber red with a pale sand coloured head. The aroma is clear hoppy with notes of strawberries, sweet pink grapefruit, orange juice and some white flowers. Doughy and bready undertones with a hint of caramel. The flavour is dry, medium bitter and tiny acidic. Metal/copper tones up front with grapefruit citric undertones. The mouthfeel is empty with a soft carbonation. Abrupt finish, only a touch of bitterness lingers. Light to medium bodied.

The aroma is amazing, really juicy, loads of blackcurrant, grape and other ripe fruits. Some pine and citrus. Taste has lots of the same fruity notes, more pine, resin and zingy citrus flavours. Malt backbone is there but I’m not getting as much as I expected. Way better than punk as i find its getting too much like lilt! Top!

5 A.M. Saint pours a clear reddish dark amber. A huge two finger head is poured and sticks around for ages. When I was done with this brew, it left a ton of lacing throughout. The smell on this one is lovely. Full of citrus and piney hops with a little bit of a grapefruit aroma. I believe this one has 4 kinds of hops in it. Chinook, Simcoe, Nelson Sauvin, and Centennial. A really nice mixture. A nice backbone of caramel malt Bottom line on the taste is that it’s one of the best sessionable tasting beers I’ve ever had. I noticed more of a ESB kind of taste then I did in the aroma. Still I’d say this is Red Ale. A really nice drop hopped taste up front. Citrus and grapefruit. But the dry hopped part of the beer just hit the spot for me. Mixed in their is the caramel malt a nice sweetness. The beer ends with a slight bitterness. It’s a very hoppy and clean taste. The mouthfeel on this one is very slick and maybe a little watery. Light bodied with medium carbonation.

Rich color and aroma. A very flavorful beer, good malt base with an unexpected amount of hops.

Veramente ottima! Un’altra birra della BrewDog fantastica!!! Anche piu’ buona della punk ipa, forse perche’ l’ho ritrovata anche meno amara. Si presenta subito bene con uno splendido colore ambrato una shiuma color crema e non persistente, l’odoro e’ simile alla punk ma meno intenso e piu’ gradevole il sapore e’ meraviglioso floreale, erbaceo e anche un po’ futtato, il finale e’ leggermente amaro e appena amaro! La migliore della BrewDog!!!