Radical Hoptimist
Greene King in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Amber / Red Ale Summer|
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6.33
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With summer in full swing, Greene King Brewery is launching a new cask beer that captures the essence of Summer 2025, with the newest addition – Radical Hoptimist – available to order now.
Radical Hoptimist, a 4% ABV amber beer with a slightly sweet and smooth amber malt base, balanced by tropical and citrus flavours. The hop-forward cask beer is a tropical fruit sensation bursting with flavours of passionfruit, peach and mango and will be available to order throughout August and September.
The amber cask was inspired by Jungle Punch, a super fruity juice ale created by Greene King’s first wave of brewing apprentices a few years ago and was only released as a small brew. The original beer recipe was 7.5% ABV and intensely hoppy
Radical Hoptimist, a 4% ABV amber beer with a slightly sweet and smooth amber malt base, balanced by tropical and citrus flavours. The hop-forward cask beer is a tropical fruit sensation bursting with flavours of passionfruit, peach and mango and will be available to order throughout August and September.
The amber cask was inspired by Jungle Punch, a super fruity juice ale created by Greene King’s first wave of brewing apprentices a few years ago and was only released as a small brew. The original beer recipe was 7.5% ABV and intensely hoppy
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the star Godalming. A clear amber coloured pour with a fading head. Aroma is nutty, varnish, dirty grass, brown sugars. Trodden leaves. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty malts, liquorice, burnt sugars, grassy, palate is semi sweet, rounded mild carbonation.
Tried
on 19 Apr 2026
at 21:28
5.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 5.5
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
7/10/2025. Cask at the Greene King Beer Café, Bury St Edmunds. Good pour. Malty, fruity, caramel aroma. Moderately sweet and bitter, with a slight sour edge. Light body, oily watery, average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
at
Greene King Beer Café
on 07 Oct 2025
at 11:17
5.3/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5
Cask at the Star, Godalming. lear dark amber gold. A few translucent bubbles for a head. Aroma is malty led. Corky. With caramelised fruit and spice. Sour. Malty. Grainy. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Soft carbonation. Long dry somewhat astringent finish. Bland stuff. May be labelled as an Ambwr Ale but they mean amber twiggy bitter.
Tried
from Can
at
Star Inn (Godalming Beerworks)
on 20 Sep 2025
at 20:36
5.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 5.5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Tried
from Cask
at
Star Inn (Godalming Beerworks)
on 20 Sep 2025
at 11:57
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Cask at the Star, Godalming, South Coast Jolly Boys Day Out 20/09/2025.
Amber pour with a limited light beige cap.
Nose is caramel, fruit esters, biscuit malt.
Taste comprises toffee, brown bread, fruit rinds, dusty hops.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
Okay cask affair.
Amber pour with a limited light beige cap.
Nose is caramel, fruit esters, biscuit malt.
Taste comprises toffee, brown bread, fruit rinds, dusty hops.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
Okay cask affair.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2025
at 10:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Golden amber with a frothy / creamy white head and toffee malt and mellow dark fruit aroma. Smooth and creamy with sweet malt, some dark fruits and hedgerow hops, finishes dry and very slightly bitter.
Smiths Arms, Beckwithshaw
Smiths Arms, Beckwithshaw
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Sep 2025
at 12:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Isle Of Wight Holiday Beer#55. Clear darker amber with a decent head. Bitter-sweet tasty malts with a traditional taste. Views of the narina in West Cowes with this one
Tried
from Cask
at
Fountain Inn
on 09 Sep 2025
at 19:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Eagle, Cambridge. Clear dark amber/red/brown with no head. Aroma of toffee, marzipan, malts and lightly dried fruits. Taste of malts, toffee, chocolate, red fruits, marzipan and some citrus and tropical fruits. Low bitterness. Low carbonation. Very good. Radical Hoptimist is a proper name if you are into these kind of puns (though it’s probably already been used before) but then why waste it on a malt-driven Amber Ale instead of a hop-forward IPA?
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Sep 2025
at 15:09
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Half pint on cask at the Tut n Shive.
Medium creamy off white head. Clear light amber pour. Light bitterness.
Medium creamy off white head. Clear light amber pour. Light bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Aug 2025
at 08:03