Greene King IPA (Cask)

Brewed by Greene King
Style: Bitter
Bury St. Edmunds, England

Serve in English pint

Sainsburys, Maypole. 500ml bottle. Perfectly serviceable session ale. Nice taste but lacking the pizzazz available from craft beers. However,at a pound a bottle on promotion, it is a bargain.

Deeply unimpressed with this. Lacks flavour or character of any kind, barely resembles what most would look for in an IPA

Cask @ The Beehive, Cheltenham. Tart golden brown, crisp. tight foam head. Alt-malt aroma, darker fruit. Full cider body. Pear and red apple, quince, round fruit, some spices.

3.6% amber colour with a thin head, hop aroma, a nice light hop taste and very easy to drink.

First tasted this at the Renfrew Beer Festival in October 1991. Cask, handpump dispense. Clear pale amber in colour with a thin white head. Slight yeasty bread note in the short aroma. Thin resiny mouthfeel and good lacing. Pale malt gives a dry digestive tea biscuit note with a hint of weak berry fruit. Booming resiny hops deliver a ringing metallic aftertaste. Finish is hoppy with floral astringency. This beer sums up how many poor English IPA’s there are out there - take a look at Thornbridge to see how its properly done!

At Stansted airport. Very good balance. Aromas of caramel, cola, and peach. Taste is sweet, with bitter notes, and long length. Palate is oily, and medium bodied. Orange, with a frothy head.

Amber in colour. Aroma of slight hops, fruit and some sweetness. Light body, slightly sweet faint hops and nuts. Finishes with a mild bitterness.

Cask at a random pub in London. Dark copper/amber color, creamy white head, Some hints of hops, way too little for me to ba an IPA. Medium body, malty sweet and more like a English Bitter than an IPA.