Punk Is Dead
Vale Brewery in Brill, Buckinghamshire, England 🏴
Amber / Red Ale - American Regular|
Score
6.27
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This occasionally seen American red IPA-style beer is brewed again especially for this Wetherspoon real-ale festival. The hoppy aroma leads to biscuit malt flavours which, in turn, yield to the American hop flavours, resulting in a vibrant character and a long, satisfying mouthfeel.
Hops: Cascade, Chinook, Fuggles
Hops: Cascade, Chinook, Fuggles
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21/03/2016. RAILWAY, 202 Upper Richmond Road, LONDON, SW15, England (WETHERSPOONS)
Tried
on 13 Feb 2023
at 08:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask@Beehive JDW, Gatwick Airport, London (11/04/2017) - amber pour with off white head. Sweet malty and fruity with some notes of marmalade, caramel, toffee, grassy herbal hoppy backing, ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Apr 2016
at 14:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol March 2016. Deep golden in colour, with a slight, off-white, head. Aroma of weetabix malts and a touch of citrus fruit, with a whiff of leafy hop. Flavour had sweetish, earthy, malts, some more fruit and a moderately bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Mar 2016
at 14:09
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Cask at the Monk’s Retreat, Reading. Hazy amber with a middling off-white head. Cheap white chocolate (didn’t expect that!) with a little tropical fruit and a dirty pine bitterness. Some slimy grubby caramel left on the tongue. The aftertaste is a little better- digestive biscuits arrive to soak up some of the dirt and allow lemon and pine to come through a bit more. However it’s too little and too late to save the day, and overall this beer just serves to reinforce my general dislike of this brewery and its products.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Mar 2016
at 19:16
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask @ Sir Norman Rae, Shipley. Amber-gold with a creamy head. Tropical fruit hopped, with a steady fruity sweetness and mild with its strength in terms of its taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Mar 2016
at 17:47
5/10
Tried
on 20 Mar 2016
at 15:58
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Cask @ JDW Shrewsbury Hotel, Shrewsbury. Pours clear amber, white head. No American hop flavours. A rather tired malt-forward character with little to get excited about. Next.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Mar 2016
at 16:08
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask at the standing order. Pours clear amber, nose is vegetive, cereal, toffee, taste is sweet, dry toffee.
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Mar 2016
at 15:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask at the standing order... Copper... Thin tan head.. Soft toffee fruit nose.. Soft sweet fruits.. Light sweet malts fruits.. Nice simple easy..
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Mar 2016
at 07:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask handpull at Society Rooms Maidstone. Jdw clear amber colour lasting white head. some sweetness some hop not great condition. Bit warm . It’s not an ipa. It’s a hoppy premium bitter. Light pink grapefruit and some earthiness. OK.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Mar 2016
at 15:37