Summer Wine Diablo

Brewed by Summer Wine
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Holmfirth, England

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Pours hazy yellow with a finger of white head. Aroma of mango, pasdion fruit, peach, citrus, grapefruit. Hints of blood orange. Taste is raw, distinct and pungent bitter with a slightly sticky mouthfeel and lively carbonation. So-so. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Slightly muted smell, with quite a thick white head and mid yellow slightly cloudy body. Some lemon and herbs, some grass and green apple. Highly carbonated. Some tropical fruits but not quite enough body to get pass the overwhelming bitterness.

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear golden amber pour with white head, grapefruit aroma, taste has big tropical hop taste this IPA is on top form, glad I bought multiple bottles.

Cask - opalescent yellow beer & slender head. Aroma - nice fragrant hops. Taste - is full of citrus fruits with a dry mild bitter finish. I thought this a rather nice ale.

Sprucey, peppery nose with some spiced mango. Flavour is hugely bitter with tons of late, wet hopping going on - new world, probably new zealand - motueka? Nelson Sauvin? Not sure. But fine - fat with citrus, bitter with fresh pine forest earth and burnt orange rind. Juicy, dry and hugely moreish. Good.

Draught at Man in the Moon, Stockholm
Cloudy orange amber color with creamy head. The aroma is mild, with delicate peachy fruitiness, and very light spicy yeast, but also a suspicious sourness (very light). Smooth mouthfeel; good malt and toffee flavor, with very strong bitterness, loads of hop resins and and orangey character, bitter oranges, and also a strong yeast character; long final, it’s also quite earthy (soil, dust) in the end.
Good, but quite rough.

keg@Catford Bridge Tavern, SE London - Golden orange pour with creamy white head. Citrus fruit hop heavy (big grapefruit) on the aroma/taste, with pine and malt nuances. Lovely. (D17)

Keg dispense at The Bacchus, Newcastle. Light hazy orange with thick white head & plenty of lacing. Aroma is full of peach, mango, and grapefruit - great hop hit, very fresh. Taste showcases the grapefruit and tropical hops perfectly with just a touch of biscuit malt to back it up. Plenty of tangerine character going on too. Pithy grapefruit bitterness covers the palate and lasts long into the aftertaste. Slightly overcarbed, but that doesn't detract from the experience. Medium/dry finish. This is how I like my IPAs to be, very much enjoyed this.

Euston Tap, Euston 5 Nov 12. Gyldenbrun. Uklar. OK skum som varer. Fester seg til glasset. Bra plommearoma. Syrlig fruktsmak & ettersmak. Sitron & aprikos. Lite kos. Tungdrikkelig. Avslutter tørt & tungt bittert.

Draught @ The rover. Pours hazy golden with a creamy offwhite head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is fruity and herbal with lemon grass, grapefruit juice, crackers, dry soil, grass, pineapple, mango, lime leaves and hints of resinous wood. Taste is bitter and slightly fruity with crackers, gooseberries, lemon balm, lemon grass, green grapes, grass, resinous wood, pine needles, grapefruit juice and lemon zest. Mouthfeel is round, slightly astringent, slightly dry and medium bodied. Finish is bitter and herbal with grapefruit rinds, lemon balm, pine needles, grass, gooseberries, grape skins and bergamot oil. Tasty stuff!