Pitstop Brickyard

Formerly brewed at Pitstop
Style: English Strong Ale
Wantage, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

Cask (gravity) at the Hop Pole Easter beer festival 2009, Aylesbury. Reddish copper colour. Nice condition. Quite fruity aroma. Rather sweet initial impression on the palate. I also picked up the estery fruits reminiscent of boiled sweets that Fin did. Fair amount of hop presence leading to a fairly bitter finish. Not really an IPA but a perfectly respectable beer.

Cask gravity at The Hop Pole, Easter Beer Festival, Aylesbury, Bucks in the company of Loz, Chris O and Ruth 10-04-09 Pours amber with a clingy filmy white head. The aroma is slightly sweet with some fruit maybe in there. Taste is big on boiled sweets, there is a honey sweetness and the bitterness is easy going rather than challenging. This is quite thick in the mouth and I’m also getting a touch of marzipan. Its a decent enough beer though I’m not sure that it slots into the IPA category. A6 A4 F6 P3 Ov13 3.2