Grain India Pale Ale

Brewed by Grain
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Harleston, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle drank in my stylish pastiche bar at home. Golden/amber pour with a light beige head. It’s frothy man! Well carbonated this one. Fresh citrus nose, predominantly lemon and grapefruit. Lemon zest, grapefruit and light herb flavours. Fresh hop tang. Strong, bitter finish. Nice.

Cask gravity at Reading BF 2011. Deep gold slight haze. No real head. Some hops on aroma fruit salad style. Better in mouth. A little syrupy but some decent pepper hop on finish. Quite tasty but funnily enough a little watery too. Some sherbert hop. Initialy I wasnt yhat keen but it did win me over

Cask - Kings Head, Norwich. A dark orange colour with a bubbly, disappearing white head. Malty sugars, toffee, grapefruit and orange aromas. More grapefruit and tangerine with a lingering citric hop bitterness and a prominent slick malt sweetness. Soft, medium body with low carbonation and an oily texture. Good but quite malt forward.

Bottle at home ... copper big bubbly white head ... spicy grapefruit hop nose ... big fruit ... lots of grapefruit ... little resiny ... odd back note from a hop im not sure of ... decent enough

Cask, Gravity at Banbury Beer Festival, Oxon, 08-05-09 Pours warm gold with a filmy white head. Plenty of ripe fruity flavours and its malty, but overall I agree with what Glen says this is let down by its sweetness, thick and rather cloying at times, its sticky but its still not so bad. A7 A3 F7 P3 Ov13 3.3

Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’09. Gold with slight head. Hmmmm, I wanted to like it lots, but it didn’t quite hit the right notes for me, it was particularly sweet and flabby, I like sharpness in an IPA. There is a sweet hop note and a fruity malt. Never mind.