3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at CASK with Sarah. Pours a clear gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has a nice fresh pine hop note with a bit of grass and a bread backbone. Flavor has pine up front that mellows to grass with a hint of citrus and a grain backbone.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
5th October 2012
Craft. Almost clear gold beer, tidy white head. Palate is light and crispy and semi dry. Quite a sweet malt base, repressed vanilla and flowers. Nice fresh citrus provides good balance - orange marmalade and grapefruit. Finishes semi dry with mild minerals. Really like the contrast of the sweet base and the fresh bitterish hops. Hugely drinkable. Great stuff!
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Massively-hopped IPA. Attractive amber appearance. The nose is aggressive and with grassy hops making themselves known. The taste is very bitter indeed, the bittersweet hop flavor makes you pucker your mouth. It’s nicely complex, and I’m tasting new sem-spiced citrus hop flavors with every sip. The mouthfeel’s lively and forcefuly astringent. This is a big beer, I like it.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask in Craft Beer Co. Colour is almost clear golden, just a tiny touch of haze. No head. Nose is beautiful deep citrous orange and grapefruit with pine, leafy hops and touch of bubble gum. Taste is crisp grapefruit, bit of orange and finish is zest/peel of grapefruit bitterness/sour.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask conditioned, gravity poured on a cellar visit, cheers Tom, at The Craft Beer Co. Clerkenwell, Gt. London. Gold with white head. Zesty lime, citrus bitter hopped, sharp and intense, definitely green and a real beauty.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
UPDATED: JAN 5, 2012 Cask at Cloisters. Pale golden, thick perfectly formed white head. Big fresh grassy nose, hint of lemon zest, bready too. Intense juicy hop character, hint of caramel, massive dry mouth-puckering bitter finish. Amazingly quaffable considering the ABV.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
On cask at The Bow Bar. A blonde ale with a decent white head. Aroma of fresh cut green hops, alcohol, pine, pineapple and mango. Similar fresh cut hop flavour again, lovely and resinous with a little candy sugar sweetness. Great juicy hop character with mild carbonation and an oily mouth-feel. Very nicely done.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Port Street Beer House, 15th November 2011. Nice beer, good mouthfeel, preferred the Dark Star APA Harvest Hop, that evening
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the CASK Pub & Kitchen, 1st Nov 2010. Clear amber with little head. Perfumed fresh hop nose with resin and grapefruit. Flavour is similar with medicinal notes and lots of bite and dryness. Sweetness in the middle of the sip for balance. Really nice.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull at CP&K Pimlico. Sweetish hops. Very good hops on finish. Sweeter than the Simoce IPA. Hoppier, bitter on the finish. Good US IPA, little bit syrupy i the middle maybe.
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