BrewDog Punk IPA

Nice to see this show up in the area. Pours a light, slightly hazy gold, decent head. Aroma is hoppy - light biscuit malts with a good bit of floral, pine, and woodsy earthy notes. Flavor is a straight match to the nose. Interesting blend of hops here, nice to see a different take on the style other than the usual American hop varieties. Good stuff.

Bottle from Systembolaget. Pale golden, low lacing head. Nice floral hop nose. Medium to light body. A bit cookie malt, focus on the big hops: Pine, grass, seaweed, tropical fruits. Dry puckering hop finish, earthy aftertaste. Nice.

Bottled. An invicible hazy yellow liquid (like witbier). Small white head is cramy and durable. Aroma is hoppy: dry pine/resin with floral notes, lemon and some grass. Malts are quite dry. Some toffy in the finish. Flavor is dryis and hops really have power. MEdium bodied. A bit sticky texture of bitterness. Quite lively carbonated.

What a bite!! Ouch!! A nice pourer, thin head, fizzing away as quick as you can say "citrussy". A long finish, bitter aftertaste. This is going down very well. Oh, orangy aroma...

Bottle. Straw colored beer with a white head. Citrus (orange/grapefruit) aroma. Citrus, light pine flavor with some malt. Decent bitterness. Medium body. Lingering citrus, touch of grass, and some pine.

Wowee. I recalled this being pretty awesome and it seems my memory is good (for beer stuff at least). Massive weedy, sweaty, resiny British hops in the aroma - incredibly intense in the best possible way - with a hint of rosewater. No real esters or malt, quite clean besides the hops. Tastes incredibly bitter but really good. Pale malts are there but don’t really bring any sweetness, just enough structure to carry the hopping. Very dry, loads of hop flavour, very bitter. Though it shares a lot philosophically with US IPAs (clean yeast, massive hopping) it’s basically unrecognisable as such. Barely any malt sweetness, no hop weirdness and no Pine O Cleen. Kinda like the beer world’s answer to a martini. Fun stuff, though I imagine a lot of people would hate it. I like it a lot.

Pours pale gold with 2-finger white head. Nose is Simcoe hoppy with that cheesy, feety hop aroma, tropical fruit, malt, white pepper. Nice nose on this. The flavor is hoppy, malty, with intermingling citrus, white pepper, and tropical fruit notes throughout. This is a unique, well made IPA.

a surprising gold clear gold color with almost no head. a pear/peach hop aroma. flavors of pear, pineapple. not a big malt presence here. light bodied with a dry finish.