3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Hardcore pours a hazy light colored orange. Barely any head at all is poured and what is poured quickly fizzes away and leaves a slight lacing around the glass. Now what I liked about this DIPA was the different smells and taste I got out of it. It has some stuff in it that you don’t usually get in a lot of normal DIPAs and maybe that’s why it got such a low score. The aroma of course has a nice dose of hops. Both citrus and piney. The malt is nicely balanced with the hops. Earthy. It also has what I don’t find in a lot of DIPAs. A nice kick of spice. Thrown in there is a nice slight aroma of melon. Definitely a different smell.
The taste on this one is more of the same for the most part. But the taste definitely had more of a sweetness to it. Like a Candi sugar taste. Citrus and piney hops are there as well as the spice and earthiness from the malt but what I picked up in the taste that I didn’t pick up in the smell was something like a tobacco taste. Not huge at all but it was there. The mouthfeel is medium bodied but chewy and sticky on the palette. A nice bitterness lingers on the tongue.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep amber, almost reddish-brown silky pour with a thin off-white head and decent lacing. Lots of citrus fruit on the nose, caramel, malt and hops. Slight smoke comes through. Medium carbonation and bitter initially. Fruit, sweet caramel and banana notes comes through. Nice IPA but not surprising from BrewDog.
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3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
35cl bottle from my beer cellar. 2 years old.
not much head. Cloudy blond pour. still yummy and nice and bitter. very nice beer!
1.8 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 6/20
The beer has no head and doesn’t smell really hoppy. Taste like a bitter canned tomato soup. It’s weird and not the kind of DPA i like. I think it’s an attempt to make an English imperial IPA, but it failed. Sorry Brew Dog.
PS : Since it’s from england it’s possible that it’s just not fresh.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle past the stamped date, I should have looked closer. Pours a clody pale straw color, nose is slight citrus fruit but malty cotton candy notes also there, first sip is malty but an aspirin like bitterness is presant. Finish is more of the same.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
caramel, roasty, citrus, banana, earthy, alcohol, woody, amber, orange, hazy, minimal head, medium sweetness, very bitter, creamy, average carbonation, Enjoyable IPA overall
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
A - Nice color and a bit darker than average for this style.
S - I didn’t get a whole lot on the noise. Nothing overpowered the other and all in all not a whole lot going on.
T - Lost of malt and burn sugar. The hops played backseat the the maltyness for me.
M - fairly thick and not much carbonation.
D - Not Impressed. It wasn’t horrible but I don’t need another.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Alko Arkadia. Originally rated on 14.12.2009. Strong IPA with notes of alcohol, hops and malts. Slightly unbalanced.
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