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BrewDog Punk IPA

Percentile
82
overall
Brewed by BrewDog
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
4543.4/5.03.39/5.06.1%60.8Shaker, Tulip
Commercial Description:
A beer of inherent contradiction. This heavy weight of the beer world is strikingly delicate with a white gold appearance. The light fruity aroma dominates the initial confrontation; lychee, kiwi and passionfruit all prevail with subtle nuances of cherry and strawberry. Don’t be fooled however by this smooth medium bodied ale. As it trickles down your throat as this wolf in sheep’s clothing begins to grow teeth. The bite comes as the bitterness builds and endures no matter how hard the malty sweetness of the alcohol tries to tame this ferocious beast.
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 Crit (2401), New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/58/103/512/20
Sep 26, 2009  
Cloudy yellow, white head fades fast.Piney raw marijuana nose.Neutral start,piney hop mid,big lasting hop bitter end


 Skeegle (486), Maryland, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/510/20
Sep 24, 2009  
Honestly this was pretty average I felt. Nice and dry, though perhaps a little too dry. The hops had so much emphasis as to make it one dimensional and plain. I thought this one could use a huge boost of malts and the sugars that they provide. Caramel anyone? Pretty unimpressed.


 kseecs16 (874), Naperville, Illinois, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 23, 2009  
Bottle at Bow Bar in Edinburgh. Pours slightly hazy light golden with a foamy soapy head. Leaves sporadic waves of soapy lacing. Aroma is citrusy cascade hops, grapefruit, pine, soapy. Medium bodied with a nice, potent lingering bitterness. Quite dry, nice.


 douglas88 (1579), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/515/20
Sep 21, 2009  
500 ml bottle from the Boise co-op. Pours a clear golden color with a thick white head and lots of lacing. The aroma is full of honey, sweet citrus hops and tropical fruits. The flavor is rich and sweet; a mix of honey and sweet butter soaked biscuit with some citrus hops and light bitterness. Not bad, but not my favorite IPA.


 RuneStumo (514), FØRRESFJORDEN, Norway
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/518/20
Sep 20, 2009  
20.09.2009, 0,33l Bottle at the Premiere Inn Hotel, Edinburgh. Pale anber colour with white head. Just like the Chaos Theory the aroma is totaly dominated by bitter hops. There is aslo some malt. The aromatic hops goes well with all the bitterness. Very nice IPA.


 manuchampions (103), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/513/20
Sep 19, 2009  
12oz bottle. Batch 061 Best Before 25/06/10 Lager yellow in colour and pours with very little head and almost no carbonation. Aroma is also fairly lager like with more of a grassy, european nose like you might find in a Czech pilsner. The taste is a tad thin with little malt evident at all. As promised the hops do attack in the finish and linger but not in the way you’d expect from either a British or American IPA. Honestly if I had to classify this one blind I’d suspect it was an imperial pilsner. On that basis the score has to suffer...but it’s not an unpleasant beer, just not really a satisfying IPA of either new or old world style. Reminded me of Prima Pils and Brooklyn lager.


 diabel (1368), Aarschot, Belgium
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/103/515/20
Sep 17, 2009  
Bottle Clear, blond body. White head. Complex aroma of hops, flowers, ... Harshly bitter flavour, bit too much 1 dimensional and astringent. Still quite well balanced.


 Dervock (178), Emu plains, Australia
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 16, 2009  
Bottle - Hazy golden with a thin white head. Big fruity aroma, hints of lycee, stone fruit and floral hops. Medium bodied with Floral hop flavours with a big dry bitter finish.



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