3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Golden body, white head. Aroma of harsh hops, bit piney. Caramel and green hops. Ipa but not your American one. Quite nice.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle: Deep golden,nearly clear, medium-sized lacy loose white head, moderate medical-hoppy and fruity nose; moderate dry bitter flavour, soft and medium bodied; a faint tinge of cough-syrup in the relatively short bitter-fruity finish. Quite an inoffensive I.P.A. ....
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 330ml. @ home.
[ Trade by cgarvieuk ]. Clear medium amber yellow colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, dusty grass - orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration, dusty, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120519]
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Golden and light hazy colour with a fine off white head. Hoppy and fruity nose. Full hoppy flavour with a solid caramel background. Also some fruity notes. Complex and nice IPA.
[Bottle from Systembolaget in Uddevalla, Sweden]
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle @ Carlsens Kvarter, Odense. Pours cloudy golden with a small white head. Earthy and dusty nose. Grainy, grassy, bitter and dry flavor with quite some vegetables which the heavy hoppin’ can’t overcome. Medium bodied.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours dark amber with a small head.
Nose shows honey and herbal notes, also spicy and grassy hops along with biscuit notes.
Weird flavours, very herbal, earthy and spicy. Some caramel underneath, followed by an assertive but well-balanced bitterness.
Could use more carbonation.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Hazy orange pour, foamy off-white head. Aroma is a bit sweaty floral hops, somewhat fruity and quite harsh. Flavor is nice bitter hopped, a bit lingering and well balanced. Always a nice hop, but better to combine with something fresh to compensate the sweatiness.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Hazy golden with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of grassy hops, with a herbal note and some raw wood.. Dry and grassy hoppy flavour, with a good bitter finish
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Craig at parent’s house. Hazy golden colour. Fair sized head that goes quite quickly. Medium bitter.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
4x0,33l bottle, IPA Is Dead four-pack from Csakajósör, Budapest. Clear, orange color with medium, white head. Typical english odor, much like Fuller’s ESB, spicy, caramel. The aroma is much more intensive, as hoppy as a Brewdog IPA, resiny, spicy, earthy. It’s surprising me, that an English hop can be this resiny. Heavy spicy bitter taste. Medium body, average carbonation, creamy texture. Interesting herbal, hoppy finish. It’s a real tasty one, it surprised me, that the Challenger can be this complex.
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