India Pale Ale (Bottle)
(Batch of India Pale Ale (6.1%))
Shepherd Neame in Faversham, Kent, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.38
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A glorious showcase of the distinct, heavily hopped beers for which Shepherd Neame is famed, India Pale Ale delivers potent bitterness, offset with generous amounts of pale ale malt to deliver a balanced, yet uncompromising brew.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
500ml bottle. Pours deep copper with an off-white head. Aroma: caramel malt, earthy hops, light floral. Taste: light sweet & moderate bitter, toffee, sweet caramel, apple and berry hints. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation and a light hoppy bitter close. I never get on with SN beers, maybe it's the yeast.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2020
at 21:58
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours an almost transparent clear copper, with one finger of firm and dense white head. Good persistence and some hints of lacing. Quite intense and pretty interesting aroma shows a layer of toffee and caramel malts, a grassy/piney undernote, floral hops and citric hops bordering red fruits, plus a light spicy hint. In the taste: caramel and toffee malts sweetness, some kind of 'ripe' citric fruitiness, which as mentioned borders red fruits. Light floral hops and slight spiciness too. Sweetish entrypoint and balanced finish and aftertaste. The taste is overall complex and quite intense as the aroma, but not equally defined/clean. Medium bodied with low to medium carbonation. Strangely 'burpy' given the not too high carbonation. An overall enjoyable example of classic english ipa.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2020
at 08:36
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Nice amber colour with thin head. Aroma of malt, caramel, burnt butter. Moderate to low carbonation and smooth on the palate without being syrupy. Taste of sweet malts, caramel, slight fruity hops with a moderate bitterness. Well balanced smooth old style IPA - nice. Superior to Marston's 'Old Empire' which I have had recently in a similar style.
Tried
on 25 Jun 2020
at 22:48
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Amber with bronze color and white foam. Aroma: earthy-floral hops, fruits and malts. Taste: rich sweetish malt, fruits; medium hop bitterness, not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2020
at 12:14
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle on 18th April 2020 from Nisa, Chester Road, London N19. Pours a deep copper with shallow off-white diminishing foam and spot lacing. Intense caramel malt/molasses aroma. Toffee flavours in-mouth with hints of apple and berries. A hint of bitter hops comes some way to balancing an otherwise sweet caramel malt finish. Medium bodied with a full texture, the mouthfeel being a redeeming quality.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Apr 2020
at 21:49
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2020
at 17:10
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Flasche 0,5l: Dunkler Bernstein, Kupfer, glasklar, kräftiger mäßig stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; frische + fruchtige Nase, frische Hopfennoten, dunkle Früchte, Äpfel, Malz, Getreide, leichte Hefearomen, leichte fruchtige Säure, Sauerteig; frischer + fruchtiger Körper, kräftige bitter-fruchtige Würze, kräftige trockene Hopfennoten, Zitrusnoten, Zitronenzest, Malz, Getreide, cremig, kräftige Kohlensäure, Hefearomen; angenehmer fruchtig-würziger Nachgang mit Hopfenaromen
Tried
on 01 May 2019
at 14:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Appearance - bright copper to red. Thick off white lacing. Nose - hobnob biscuits, red fruit and honey. Taste - red fruit up front. Biscuits beneath. Palate - creamy and close to medium bodied. Dry, grainy finish. Overall - good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2019
at 20:42
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample@Ølfestival København 2018 (Day 3) - golden amber pour with a white head. Sweet fruity and malty with some muted citrus fruity undertones, sweet caramel malt, medium body, rather subdued hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
on 25 Nov 2018
at 10:10
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2018
at 19:37