BrewDog Punk IPA (6%)

Formerly brewed at BrewDog
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle. Eathy, with some slight floral hops. Dry, bitter, and more malty than expected, but with some nice juicy citric hops in the finish. A nice IPA, but probably a little less hoppy than i was expecting. Still, this was good.

Bottle: Pours a cloudy orange color with nice head and lacing. The nose is ripe with citrus hops a little pine character. Light pale malts and a solid body pair with the chewy fruity hops very nicely. Ample balance and sweetness, nice bright hops and a plethora of other delicacies. An on par IPA for the PNW, but for Scotland, it’s bloody delightful.

Draught at Birreria Paradiso. Nothing subtle here. Nothing too complex either. just hops. Lots and lots of hops. Didn’t get much from this one besides hops.

Bottle 330 ml
Appearance:
golden with light carbonation. Mid top , average appearance. Nose: soft aromatic, floral, citric hops, soft fragrant hints with slight alcoholic dryness. Slight touch of vanilla. Finishing hints of grape and berry. 7+
Flavor/Palate : soft clear fontal character, leafy wet hops with warmth of alcohol. Bitter drinkable IPA. 13+/20

Not a bad brew, but it seems more like an aggresive APA to me. It pours a clear golden body with a creamy white head and slippery lacing. The aroma is of tropical fruit with a floral undertone. The flavor has sweet grainy malts, pineapple and other fruit, countered by a growing hoppy bitterness, mainly floral and grassy in nature with a touch of citric zest. Nice finish, bitter and dry. Seems more like a sessionable pale ale overall, but pretty decent.

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Bottle from Once Upon a Vine McArthur in Richmond... batch 001 best by 010109. Hazy peach color with a medium frothy head and thick rings of lacing. Citrusy aroma with very bitter piney notes. Hops dominate the taste which is very dry with pear notes. Very bitter. Almost no carbonation.

Bottle. Head is initially large, frothy, white, mostly lasting. Body is hazy medium yellow, unfiltered. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), moderately hoppy (flowers, herbs), lightly yeasty (dough), with a note of lemon zest, hint of gum. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately to heavily bitter. Medium body, velvety texture, lively carbonation. Pretty good stuff, but not quite there for me...pleasant if somewhat simple aroma and the flavor balance is just a bit too rough for me (double attack of citric tartness and bitterness). But otherwise it’s quite nice.

Clear golden colour with a thin white head. Light malty sweet aroma with hoppy fruity and grassy notes. Light sweet flavor with hoppy, piney bitter notes.

UPDATED: AUG 23, 2009 Back to back with Ridgeway IPA. Love the abusive blurb on the bottle (bonus point). Pours lifeless dull orange with a short-lived film of big-bubbled bath suds. Aroma sweeter and less musty than the Ridgeway, with lemon jelly, lychee, tinned mandarins, funk, and strawberry. Also sticky herbal Blackjack-like notes (liquorice). The hop onslaught is big but not murderous, tilting more towards grapefruit than orange, bitterness without the fleshy fruitiness of the last beer. Intensely bitter hop finish cushioned by a sweet, mealy aftertaste. Poorly conditioned, simplistic IPA, but the hops shine through. (re-rate) 99p bottle from Tossco. Nose neat tinned mandarin juice. Slick, floral, citrussy and bitter. Loses its head immediately. Tasty IPA deserving of a wider market, and more than a 3.2. (Re-rate, another 99p bottle from Tossco- left a couple on the shelf to go out into the world and spread the word) Slick and lacy. Slight pencilly grain and peanutty afters here as in a very bitter pilsener or CE Goat’s Milk as it once was. Musty hopsack and pale malt aroma (TT Landlord?) drenched with mandarin. (Having another bottle so I can really get to the heart of this)....definitely more lip-smacking aromatic citrus in this one, always mandarin cheesecake leaning into grapefruit intensity. Stinging green nettle and geranium aroma. Softer than when they started brewing it, and more complex and rounded with it. The hops are really breathing now. This is drinking like a half of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord and a bottle of Goose Island IPA. In the same glass. Variable, improving, up-rated yet again, and currently taking on Orval as my favoured house beer of choice. I can’t think of a British beer at 6% this juicily sessionable and packed with hop flavour. Fill your basket, lads. Fill your basket. (UPDATE) Aaaahhh. What a hop tonic after that dreary monkbeater. Red gold lacing heavily, slick creamy condition, humming floral and tropical hop aromas melding into biting crisp grapefruit, dry roasted husky nut bitterness sticking to the throat. No thinness, tiredness or butter, just freshness and body like its not been pasteurised or filtered. Thick but savoury, giving the impression you could swig it by the pint all night without suffering....complications. Classic British pale ale. 484817

Bottle. Slightly hazy dark yellow with small lasting white head. Flavour is malt, dry, citrus, grass and hops.