Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and spicy hops. The flzvor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, hops, and spices, leading to a bitter finish.

17th December 2016
Very hazy deep amber beer, thin cream colour head. Filthy hop nose - garlic and old socks. Palate is light, mildly dry and fairly crisp. Very modest sweetness from the thin malts. Hops follow the nose! The filth dies away a little as the beer goes from very cold to cool. A slight earthyness emerges and a touch of spicy tropical fruits. Mild floralness. Light dry finish. Starts filthy and gets interesting. Yet to have a better Rakau single hop IPA than that of Kernel though.

Pint at Vultures’ Lane. Really quite refreshing, there’s hops but they aren’t taking centre stage.

Bottle. Clear mid amber with a modest whit head. The nose is not delicate at all: quite a lot of pine, some toasty caramel, apricot, some herbs. Light bodied - a bit thin for 5.7% really. Lowish carbonation. Pine is a lot less prominent after that first sniff. Toasty and not that sweet with tropical and stone fruit, flowers. Gently drying and moderately bitter finish. Odd beer - the first whiff seemed rambunctiously hoppy and then it all rather subsided after that. The malt side of things seemed more suited to an amber lager than an IPA and overmatched the hop aromatics and bitterness.