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Meantime India Pale Ale 3.5 463

Meantime India Pale Ale

Percentile
88
overall
Brewed by Meantime
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

London, England

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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4633.51/5.03.5/5.07.5%77.1Shaker, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Bottle conditioned. Alsos available on keg.
Meantime are Britain's only brewers of authentic India Pale Ale. Small batch production allows us to apply the attention to detail and care we require to produce an authentic IPA especially for you. Pound upon pound of Fuggles & Goldings hops are needed to enable us to achieve the dry hopping rates necessary to recreate this great beer style. Enjoy with hot foods and spicy friends, or vice versa.
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 kp (8600), Woodstock, Georgia, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Sep 1, 2007  
Date: 05/20/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog II

amber with a slight chill haze, sweet carmel malt aroma with light floral hops, easy drinking balanced sweet carmel malt with nice hop flavor, light bitter finish

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 9/10
Score: **+/4


 Oakes (8172), Beyond the Great Firewall, China
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Mar 28, 2008  
Golden-beige colour. Thick head can’t quite get rocky but it’s close. Richly hopped - herbaceous, dusty, almost saison-like. Bitter - shitloads of low-alpha hops, with a yeasty, minerally character again akin to a saison. Dry, slightly herbal finish with lingering hops. An esoteric take on the style, undoubtedly faithful to at least one era of IPA’s history. I love the rusticity.


 fiulijn (7520), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/514/20
Jan 14, 2006  
Corked bottle, 75cl
Hazy light amber color, creamy head. Nice hoppy aroma. Medium malty body, extremely bitter, quite aromatic English hop, very long finish. Good, not exceptional.


 KimJohansen (7303), Copenhagen V, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Sep 9, 2008  
Hazy amber with large creamy off white head. Hoppy aroma with citric notes and hints of caramel. Sweet fruity flavor with caramel and hoppy notes. Ends bitter.


 argo0 (7041), Washington DC, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/512/20
Aug 25, 2005  
(draft) Crystal clear amber body with off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, grapefruit, light caramel, lemon. Taste is medium sweet, grapefruit, light lemon, grassy, orange. Soft, light-medium body.


 harrisoni (6947), Ashford, Kent, England
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
May 12, 2006  
75cl bottle from Sainsbury. Copper colour with bubly off white head. Goldings/Fuggles strong hop aroma. Big harsh hop flavours. Very much in the style of an American big intense hoppy IPA. Not unpleasant, very in your face grapefruit hop. Herby/peppery. There is some biscuity malt to underpin the hops.


 TBone (6868), Pori, Finland
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Aug 14, 2005    Updated: Aug 29, 2006
Bottled 75cl @RBESG’05
A bit hazy golden, not much head. Yeasty, a bit musty with hoppy nose. Crisp hoppyness, which carries long in aftertaste. 5/2/7/4/15 3.3
Re-rate RBESG 2006. 8/3/7/4/14 3.6


 Maria (6345), Thisted, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/514/20
Apr 7, 2007  
75 cl. bottle. Beautiful, slightly hazy IPA with a nice head. The aroma has a lot of hops, fruit, tangerine and melon. The flavour has a nice bitterness, notes of fruit, caramel and a brief sweetness. The finish is nice and long.



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