The King's English IPA
Greene King in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.10
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Having traveled over time and tides (Hither! Yon!), the recipe inside this bottle is classic - historic, even. The constancy of the brewer, stalwart - historic, even. (Green, not green). What once conveyed far-flung journeys to an empire’s edge now signals the return home... and a recipe that launched thousands of ships of ale; highly hopped with a perfect malt balance.
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5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Trader Joe’s. Not a NW IPA, but very British. Sweet malts, molasses, hops are hiding in the background, daring to be found. Cola colored with thin wispy head. Aroma is sweet, but also kind of sour (skunked?). Bottle marked with "14204", which might be a Julian date. Not bad, but not very IPA either
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2015
at 22:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Trader Joe’s in Davis, CA. Pours bright copper with a slight off-white head. Aroma is floral with a mildly roasty malt. I’d have guessed ESB. Med + body. Flavor is floral and definitely roasty malt. I’d have guessed BB. So it’s an English IPA. I can live with that. Malt and floral hop are tasty. And I have a soft spot for Greene King. Or the Greene King of yesteryear.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2014
at 20:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Toffee malt and dry grass aroma. Amber with moderate head. Sweet toffee malt and moderately bitter herbal lemon peel flavor. Okay.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2014
at 19:19
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
50cl bottle, picked up at Trader Joe’s, where it pours with a clear deep copper body that has thin gold edges and supports a weak dirty white head. The aroma offers up dusty malts, minerals, mild earthy sort of herbal hops and a dash of caramel and ripe apple. The taste seems straight up old school IPA, like 1989 old school, with a firm mix of minerals, caramel and a dash of sweet dates. It then heads into more dates, a bit of spicy black strap molasses and then mild spicy to earthy to herbal hop notes that are murmuring away well off in the background.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Oct 2014
at 20:39
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle. Pours dark amber - copper with large beige spongy head, grass aroma, medium carbonation, roasted malt taste, thin body, medium finish with a little metallic bitter aftertaste. A bit weak and not really hoppy at all, quite a strange IPA. I guess this must be a cheap contract beer produced for Trader Joe’s.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2014
at 15:30
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours dark amber into a shaker. Off-white head quickly recedes leaving soapy lacing. Lemon joy and bready caramel aromas. Thick with sweet caramel and nuts front to back. Mild bitter earth finish.
Tried
on 29 Sep 2014
at 15:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
500 ml bottle from Trader Joe’s in Princeton, NJ. Bright amber orange color. Big, bubbly beige head. Briny toasted malt aroma. Soft dry caramel malt flavor. Some spicy hops upfront. Slightly complex with butterscotch notes. Herbal hops in finish. Dry astringent aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2014
at 20:39
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Big 16.9oz bottle I picked up at Trader Joe’s in Falls Church. Pours a clear, copper brown with some sudsy, clumpy, white head. Smells real beer-y, in a cheap sort of way, yeasty, some muddled citrus, malt. Flavor is a little better, some malt, some butterscotch, orange, a little dried grass, some mild herbs, some yeast. Very thin finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2014
at 14:45