BrewDog The Physics

Formerly brewed at BrewDog
Style: Amber Ale
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask- I prefferred to bottle so I rating the better one. Fudgy and sweet fruity and bitter veery pleasent to drink but not my favorite style. I had more than two pints before a cherry belgium beer.

For once, I quote the label: A fudgey fruity taste that subsides into a ripple of bitterness. Lovely amber, seriously fruity. It has raisins and that plum-in-madeira-with-marzipan flavour you have in the Danish Anthon Berg chocolates. Ant then you have the potpourri of hops sweeping the floor of everything. Bliss.

Strepitosa ale dal profumo marcato di luppolo fresco, ben bilanciata con un bell’amaro che pulisce; l’ho consigliata proprio ad un fisico.

Cask at the Cask Pub & Kitchen on 20th May (launch event day). Copper with thin off-white head. Sharply bitter with a piercing hop kick. Citric tang on the roof of the mouth and lingering, richly hoppy aftertaste. Excellent.

Bottle (batch 001). Head is initially large, frothy, off-white, mostly lasting. Body is clear light amber. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted grain, cookie, caramel), moderately hoppy (flowers, apricot, orange), with a hint of dried mango. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium body, velvety texture, lively carbonation. A damned fine Bitter. As this warmed, I kept waiting for dough, metal, or diacetyl aromas to spring out, but they never did. Refreshingly assertive bitterness of the low-alpha type and thus very clean...virtually perfect balance that makes it extremely hard to stop drinking. Not "exciting" per se (the aroma is attractive, but fairly straightforward), but then again the style rarely is. Remarkably enjoyable to just sit back and quaff...would be a perfect pub offering. Pretty much flawless. Attention to detail was clearly devoted during brewing...not a single rough edge to be found by my senses. Major kudos to the brewer on this one.

UPDATED: AUG 26, 2008 Nice deep orange colour. Thin head. Thick cookie/caramel/biscuit mouthfeel. I did enjoy it. ’Overpowering’ is too strong a word for the taste, but I could have done with either a pint of it, or another bottle - just to truly get to grips with the complexity of it.

Big hoppy aroma, dusty, toasty, grassy, notes of lemon and marmalade. The flavour is hoppy straight away in a nice chewy mouthful. The sweetness I expected didn’t materialise. The bitterness goes towards the back of the throat and lingers nicely. I’ve rated this highy because I like the hops but others may find a more traditional balanced "amber" more palatable. I like the US influence these lads have.

pours with a bronze color and a spattered Brittish head. Strong aromas that remind me of a peated single malt. Medium nectar with mellow residual effers. This is very English in style with a defined bittering component that drys the palate lickity split. Mild malt essence with peat and old boot leather. The brew finishes bold and dry. Well made and very enjoyable. A nice change of pace. It’s better than I anticipated.

Cask/Gravity at The Swan Beer Festival, Islip 05-10-07 A stunning fruity hop nose that reached me before I’d even stuck my conk over it. the clarity and colour were excellent, nice mid-amber coloured beer. Initially ferociously bitter very much in a US style,crisp, fresh, snappy and with a bitterness that hangs on for an eternity. Loved this and came back for two more after my other beers.

Dark red amber, slightly hazy pour with white froth and lace. Aroma floral and citrussy with hints of rose, orange and hop leafiness. Flavour more of the same- juicily citrussy hops nibbling with bitterness, but softened out by buttery, digestive biscuit-like malt and an oaty aftertaste. Blackcurrant and vanilla. Big character at 5%, and some alcohol presence. Really tasty, well-integrated brew with hoppy cask bitter and American IPA leanings.