American Independence Pale Ale
J D Wetherspoon in Watford, Hertfordshire, England 🏴
Collab with: Firestone Walker BrewingBrewed at/by: Adnams
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.22
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Cask at the Moon Under Water, JDW - London. I finally tracked this sucka down! Pours totally clear gold with a staunch, foamy white head. Big dank hop nose, plenty of ripe citrus, a bit of orange, perhaps some dirty pine. Light to medium sweet flavor with lots of juicy hops, some dirt, nice lightly toasted bready malt backbone, ripe orange, melon, light urine, pine. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Fairly resinous on the finish, lots of ripe and dank citrus, light bread, melon, orange, some lightly tangy tangerine. Really solid effort, this. Probably a Top 10 JDW beer for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask at the Willow Walk (JDW), 05/07/13. Clear golden amber with a decent white head. Nose is hops, light pine, grapefruit, candyfloss, mango. Taste comprises juicy hops, good coating of pine, caramel malt, bitter grapefruit, orange pith. Medium to light in body, soft carbonation, hop bitterness and pine shavings in the finale. Lovely stuff, one of the best hoppeeeee cask beers I’ve encountered, eminently drinkable grown up tropical fruit juice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at The Moon in the Square, Bournemouth, Dorset. A golden/amber coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Nice fresh hoppy, citrus fruit aroma. Tastes so fresh, hoppy, citrus fruit, malty, slight bitterness. Two pints of this went down so damn quick after a day on the sunny south coast. Excellent fayre from Spoons.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cask @ JDW Inverness [300613]
Amber, slight haze, dense white head, some lacing
Aroma - Big fruity hop aroma, tropical fruits, mango, citrus sweet fruits
Taste of tropical fruits, zesty citrus, grapefruit pith, sweet fruity pale malts, stinging resinous hops, touch of peppery spicyness, soft fruity caramel malt, great moreish flavour
Palate - Medium body, pithy fruity bitter palate, sweet malt background. Finish - pithy grapefruit bitterness, hoppy bitter linger with a clean finish.
Overall - So drinkable and moreish - after the excellent Adnams / Avery collab with the 3.5 - this is even better. One of the best beers in Spoons i’ve had in a long while