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Grand Union One Hop: Boadicea

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Formerly brewed at Grand Union
Style: Bitter
Hayes, England
Serve in English pint

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RATINGS: 3   MEAN: 3.03/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 2.93   EST. CALORIES: 135   ABV: 4.5%
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COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Cask; Special - April 2006 (One Hop series).
Each beer features a single variety of hop from around the world. Every beer in the series undergoes five separate additions of the particular hop into the brew kettle. Whole hops are then added to the “hopback”, in which the hot brew passes on its way to the fermenter. All the beers will have the same degree of hoppy bitterness, and drinkers are able to compare the aroma, flavour, and pleasing aftertaste of each of the varieties. Instead of using specialty malts that might mask the flavour of the hop, only Maris Otter pale malt is used. Maris Otter is the finest strain of malt available. With only pale malt used, there is little to come between the hop lover and the hop.


2.7
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
Mungo (2472) - Southampton, - MAY 4, 2006
Gravity Cask @ Reading Beer Festival 2006. Hoppy fennel flavours. Some sweet malt. Not well balanced verges between thin and hoppy and then jsut malt.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
chriso (7065) - London, Greater London, ENGLAND - APR 22, 2007
Cask (gravity dispense) at Reading Beer Festival, April 2006. Mid gold colour. A new hop variety on me. Apparently specially bred for aphid resistance. Gentle floral aroma. Grassy and harbal on the palate, with distinct bitterness. Crisp and fresh. Perhaps not the most flavoursome hop but it certainly produces a clean and easy drinking beer.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
harrisoni (10070) - Ashford, Kent, ENGLAND - MAY 1, 2006
Cask gravity at Reading BF 06. Gold with thin white head. Clean grassy aroma. Citrick hop. Pleasing citrus, grassy hoppy beer with bit of black currant. Bit stringey.


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