4.6 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20Bottle@home from Regional Wines, wellington
Dark amberwith fluffy off-white head. Rich bergamot and tea notes on the nose. strong passion fruit and tannic tea flavours with a long bergamot finish. Really well balanced fantastic T-IPA!
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Wow interesting. Not a subtle difference from normal ipa flavours but a nice sharp one.
No significant head with very little carbonation. Subtle aroma of tea and fruit. Flavour is a big smack of herbal tea! Sharp taste. Took me a minute to adjust and come around to this but I’m enjoying it. Certainly delivers what it intends!
3.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from Fresh Choice in Nelson whilst holidaying. Interesting beer to say the least, I like Earl Grey so I’ll give it a fair rating. Nothing quite like it, and I reckon a good ladies beer (as my missus liked it and she’s not a big beer drinker) I think this could still be a reasonable session beer, but not really my type of IPA. Nice all the same and I did enjoy. Liked the different flavours.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
A love/hate sort of beer that I happen to like. Makes a nice change from the lingering bitterness of most of the other beers I enjoy drinking. A great way to start (and finish) a session.
0.7 AROMA 1/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 1/20
Cap exploded off with gusto; the beer quick to follow so into the glass it went without muckin’ about. 4 inches of foam and an inch of beer is not what I’d call a good ratio. Took half an hour to settle so I snuck a few pints of Bitter in while I was waiting. Muddy, chestnut tinged orange with a bad case of the floaties. Aroma is dominated by a strange note of chocolate coated marzipan and chocolate coated fruit chews with just a little apple, cinnamon, pine nut and sulphur (Me thinks this bottle is not quite in the best shape!). Sharp, astringent, burnt candi sugar, smoke, medicinal phenols, things going through my head that are stopping me from having another sip. Ugh, here we go again. Bitter, overbrewed tea, butter, way too much yeast funk. Herrrrp, it is starting to repeat on me and there goes my taste buds as I wave them goodbye. The body medium light with a creaminess coming from that massive persistent foam. This is what happens when yeast runs amok on your beer. Sulphury, burnt matchsticks, lasting fermenting fruit esters in the way too long linger. I need an Alka-Saltzer, stat. Mummy, I want this ride to stop..........!
A bottle for watering the garden with, a re-rate to follow. (33cL, no date stamp, The Beer Store, Morley)
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours a clear dark burnt orange colour with a fairly big thin head.
Fairly lively with tastes of tea.
This isnt the hoppiest ipa I have ever drank.
I still havent had a yeastie boys beer that I dont like. keep them coming.
1.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
The tea in here is too over the top for me. Tasted very soapy and gave me headaches. Simple not a pleasant experience for me. Friends of mine love it though...
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Very nice beer. Unusual, a little eccentric, but it has a very classy, refined, yet refreshing and zingy buzz to it. It sure is difficult to get a solid foothold into this flavour as each mouthful brings out something different. I didn’t think it would be as good as it is. For me, the aroma gets a bit too out there by the last third of the glass. I don’t mean it is bad, it’s not, but after 2/3 of 330ml this beer is giving me a nice buzz and when I stick my beak into the glass, I’m expecting malt and hops not Earl Grey. But what would I know.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Bottle) Hazy amber with annoyingly ridiculously large fairly loose head. Lovely aroma - sweet oranges and tea. Excellent palate - medium body with refreshing carbonation. Tangy orangey foretaste with sweet malt to balance; then the tea and hop flavours develop providing a dry and reasonably bitter finish. Overall an unusual beer, but for me the tea worked well in the aroma, but rather less so in the taste
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
A copper amber with med-lge head. Smells.. Oranges/peel and earl grey, a hint of citrusy hops. Tastes very fruity, citrus made sweeter by the earl grey dominating at the back where a little malt appears too. 2nd time - enjoyed.
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 12/20
Aroma at first is stunning,fresh hop driven goodness. Where this beer is let down is by the addition of Earl Grey tea.. Seriously I can understand the new trend of dry hopping with tea but Earl Gray? What were they thinking? Earl Gray is putrid in a tea, let alone a beer. Call me a purist but I personally believe there is no place foe Earl Gray in a beer. Nice beer otherwise.
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