2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20Bottle at my parents house, from JS thanks to the old man, 25/01/13.
Hazed mid amber with a good sized frothy white head that retains well.
Nose carries muted hop tones - dumbed down and not very fresh, caramel malts, orange, lemon sherbet, hint of soap, a general musty and tired aroma. Lots of descriptors but none make it score more than 5 !
Taste comprises faded hops, touch of pine, citrus, orange marmalade, caramel.
Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, some hop bitterness in a dry finish.
A pretty basic and below par IPA.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Sainsbury’s Team Valley. An amber beer with caramel and orange marmalade flavours, slight pine notes and a creamy fruity finish.
2.6 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Aroma is a bit stale, like boiled vegetables. Flavour is somewhat better. The hops deliver a little sharpness and decent level of bitterness. Feels really rough and unrefined though. Not good.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at home from Sainsburys. Sweet caramel maltvaroma . some fruity american c hop aroma. Flavour is sweetish cara malt. Some c hop. Pale amber. Short lived white head. Too sweet and not enough hops for an IPA.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Hopfiger, etwas alkoholischer Antrunk. Angenehme Malzigkeit und Hopfennoten, spritzig, harmonisch. Hopfiger, schnell abflachender Ausklang. 10/10/9/9/11/9
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dec 2012 - cold bottle. Quite similar to a traditionally British IPA but with a bit of astringent floral bitterness, which sends it into American IPA territory. Pretty ordinary, but nothing particularly negative to say.
3.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours a slight hazy, quite fizzy dark honey with a thcik white fluffy head. Really good nose on this - honey, oranges, peaches, pineapples. Everything I’ve come to expect from a decent american IPA. Mouthfeel is decent, with the bubbles, but they also dampen the taste somewhat. You still get a decent level of fruitiness, deep sweet malts and a slight roastiness. Finish isn’t as strong as I’d like from this, but rather easy to quaff for a 6.3.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: FEB 18, 2013 (bottled) In a tulip.
The kind of American style IPA on the right side of the tracks to be cool located on my palate because this beer has dyness i dig Its rich malty rather than overly rich hoppy. there is a lovely dry piney hop quality -big on bitterness . toasty malts.caramel notes in there. this stuff almost cleans your palate in refreshment .
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
From Sainsburys hahaha. What you would expect - not enough hops. Just had awful nightmare, have full body sweats
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Deep amber, long lasting off-white head. Aroma: mild citrus/pine notes from the hops, biscuit from the malts. Taste: lemon, caramel, touch of spice. Bit unbalanced. Decent bitter finish. A little watery on the palate. Medium carbonation. Pretty good.
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