Proper Job (Bottle)
(Batch of Proper Job)
St. Austell Brewery in St. Austell, Cornwall, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.75
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Proper Job is an authentic IPA brewed with Cornish spring water and malt made from a blend of malts including Cornish grown Maris Otter barley. Hops used are Cascade, Chinook and Willamette. A powerfully hopped golden bitter that explodes with citrus grapefruit flavours.
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4.5/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Clear gold liquid with lots of carbonation and almost no head, poured chilled. Soft aromatic hops on the nose and nothing else. Flavor is kind of a sour hoppiness, a hint of vegetable. Dry finish. Adequate, perfectly, abv is invisible, just okay.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2018
at 13:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear, light golden. Low head. Grassy aroma. Grapefruit taste, lingering bitterness. Fresh.
Tried
on 15 Jun 2018
at 21:01
6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Tesco. Bright golden, foamy head fades to flat. Light citrus aroma, orange peel. Taste too is light citrus, citrus peel, some of the malts. Sweet and tangy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2018
at 16:16
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Systembolaget. At the start, I wasn't overly enamoured. The old hops were There with a very English pub grittiness. Then, it green on me at an alarming rate. In the end, an absolute charmer of a beer. Sweet and dusty hops combined magically and went down a treat like a home beer could. ---- Re-rated on tap at Bishops Arms Östersund. Really sad that this tastes really bland on tap. Lagery. 3.9 to 3. (9/2/19) ----- Bottke at the Wickses. A lingering bitter end reminiscent of cask. Hoppy taste. 3 to 3.1.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2018
at 18:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from a gift pack received as a present, cheers Jean! "Cornish IPA" brewed with Maris Otter and hopped with three New World hop varieties. Very intricately cobweb-lacing, tenacious, eggshell-white, thick head, coarse and irregular, slowly breaking here and there but nevertheless very stable, over a warm and pure golden blonde beer with 'old gold' hue and a very diffuse haze of yeastiness throughout, so diffuse that the beer seems cristal clear and filtered at the beginning, but turning it ever more hazy as the rest of the bottle is emptied in the glass. Fragrant, lively, almost 'spring-like' nose of dried southernwood, fresh lime zest, dried camomile, cold lemon butter sauce, lilies, pomelo peel, white bread crust, rosegarden, straw, lavender, faint bath foam, something remotely vanilla orchid-like. Crisp, clean onset, typical 'English' background fruitiness of green pear, unripe pineapple and red apple peel, sharp carbonation adding a lot of 'crystalline mineralness', lively, but stinging a bit much for any IPA - or even any Anglo-Saxon ale style 'tout court'. Nonetheless remaining sufficiently smooth, with a lean, bit oily body; very cereally, 'white' bready backbone, pale malt graininess with a subtly softening edge, leading upwards to an increasing hop bitterness, apparent already before the proverbial middle of the tongue and coating the back of the mouth in a resiny layer of spicy, rooty, zesty and tonic water-ish bitterness, whilst releasing uplifting retronasal aromas of fresh grapefruit peel, wormwood leaves and bitter garden flowers. Ends resiny, firmly bittering and dry, with a hint of powdery yeastiness peeping through - especially after the sediment has been added. Interesting case: basically your average modern English golden ale, but 'pimped' with New World hops, although not quite in the same way the Americans would do it (or would have done it years ago, i.e. ignoring that current NEIPA hype): here the nose offers a whole garden of fragrant subtropical spring flowers, whereas in the taste, little of this delicate fragrance is left and a resiny, stout-hearted bitterness becomes dominant. The combination of both, however, makes this a surprisingly fascinating beer - thoroughly English, but with a somewhat alienating, exotic touch. Which, if I am well-informed since I haven't made it there yet, fits the Duchy of Cornwall quite well - so if interpreted like that, this could not have been more Cornish. Feels like an exotic trip close to home, weirdly.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2018
at 18:14
8/10
Tried
on 02 Jan 2018
at 13:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Aroma 6. Appearance 2. Taste 8. Palate 4. Overall 13. Nice hoppy aroma but not very strong. Taste bitter and lemon, dry finish. A good medium IPA.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2017
at 14:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pours gold from the bottle with a thick, frothy white head. Aroma is full of lemon and orange peel, lightly floral, with noticeable caramel hints. Taste is bittersweet with a tart lemony bitterness competing for dominance with the sweet caramel base. Finishes increasingly tart. Body is light to medium with moderate carbonation. Not a great deal of complexity but still an entertaining and refreshing brew. Good summer drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Nov 2017
at 11:42
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 500 ml, from Pivoljub. Shared with IHC. Cloudy golden, medium white head. Citrus, malty, bit sweetish, light bitterness and body. Moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2017
at 12:16
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
2016 catch up - A good beer, but very lively and overall very yeasty. A strong kick of bitter and fruity hops and a thick mouth feel with a level of creaminess. Feb 2018 re-rate as Proper Job Cornish IPA - Personally I think this is a different beer to bottled Proper Job, but what do I know. Anyway, bottle at home from Tesco. A good pour with some head and a lovely gentle aroma of fruity hops. The colour was light, bright and really rather pretty. The taste was fruity hops that reminded me of the aroma of English hedgerows and orchards. This was drunk while eating some cheese and crackers and it was a good pairing. I really liked this hop style because it didn't slap me round the face and make me think I was being force fed toilet cleaner. So many IPAs are being brewed for the "raters" and are almost undrinkable beyond a few sips. This was something that I could drink and drink and drink, although the high abv makes that impossible. I had the last drop from the bottle as I was doing the recycling at the end of the evening and the hops had got even sweeter. Anyway, rambling monologue over, this was a really good beer and I will target it again for the summer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2017
at 04:45