Dark Star Six Hop Ale

Brewed by Dark Star
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Horsham, England

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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From cask at Bree Louise. pourese hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is clear grapefruity. Distinct hoppy and crisp bitter initial flavour. Dry and fruity throughout. Hoppy and citrusy towards the finish. Ends dry and bitter.

Cask. Orangeish golden colour, with mediumsized fluffy head that settles into a small tight foamy and leaves some lace. Aroma is fruity, floral, grassy and a bit nectary with some slight caramel malts. Flavour is grass, fruits, wood and some mild nectar. Wellbalanced, and hides the ABV rather well.

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm Fruity resiny grapefruity nose with some Earl Grey tea. Mid sweet near full bodied. Heavy and nearly inky. Warming and minty with extreme bitterness. Black currant lingers. More extreme than balanced.

Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 08. First beer of the festival and one of about 5 that I was genuinely excited about. Gold with lasting beige head. Big PNW grapefruity aroma. Fruity grapefruit in mouth, malts are a bit syrupy, rather than biscuity. Hops on finish are really crunchingly green and attack the mouth. Great English beer for a hophead like me. Lovely.

Cask @ Bree Louise, Euston NW1. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity hoppy bitter citrus flavor. Has a fruity hoppy bitter finish with hints of citrus in the aftertaste.

Cask conditioned at Far from the Madding Crowd, Oxford. Dark amber with white head, a lovely looking pint. Wow what a beauty this is the hops fill up the palate right from the off, its a hop sensation. Easy malty body carrying an alcohol fullness, but the main story is in the top notes, lychees, grapefruit, bitterness thet all dance on and off the tongue. A brilliant beer, thats all that can be said.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Sussex Beer Festival.
Copper blond with a good white head and showing excellent condition. Awesome balance of all the hops in the aroma gives you all you could possibly want. Floral, aromatic, citric, dusty and earthy notes and all carried really well by an underpinning malt. The malt comes through more in the flavour and initially it makes it not as hoppy as you would be expecting following the nose but the dry hopping gives it a stunning kick in the finish leaving a lingering fruity tang. Juicy mouthfeel rounds everything off perfectly. BLOODY GORGEOUS!

Cask Conditioned handpump Bree Louise London. (One of my twelve lost (for now) notes, so this is as well as I remember). I was expecting good things from this and it delivered, even at The Bree Louise. Wish I’d not lost my notes but it will be a pleasure to revisit this. Wonderfully hoppy and with a good body, Wonderfully balanced and superbly drinkable. Although the body helps give the ABV away, the alcohol is never intrusive.

Cask (Kuikka, Helsinki)
Rich orange, persistent thin head. Lovely hoppy aroma. Orange hoppy taste at first, but a massive wave of pleasantly-caramelly malts comes over on swallowing. Full sweet body, and a lovely hoppy finish. However, the malts are there in the finish too. Covers 6.5% brilliantly. Very well balanced. More please!

February 2008
A pint in the Rake. Pleasantly hoppy without being your face. Smooth palate. Very drinkable. Ed from the Rake correctly identified 4 of the 6 hops by smell alone - respect!