Gareth Skywalker Golden IPA

From a 330ml bottle on 27/6/2015. Pours a light golden with a smallish head. Has a light spicy, citrus fruit nose. Flavour wise, it’s very lemony, but also features a fair bit of sweet citrus, which is countered by a reasonably firm bitterness, with some bready malt in the background. The palate is slightly sticky and the carbonation a touch above average. Relatively simple and straight forward, but quite refreshing and enjoyable.

Pours gold with a quickly fading head.Nose shows soft spicy and melon-like hops with some cardboard malt notes.Cleaner malt profile in the way of flavours, with some more spicy and herbal hops too.

Bottle. Very pale gold with a white head. Delicate passionfruit and peach bubblegum aroma, mandarins, some other tropical fruit, an odd vinous note like aged Semillon. Light bodied. Moderately sweet with all the fruit, lime leaf and that strange white wine note that makes it come across as simultaneously fresh and stale. Quite dry at the fairly bitter finish. Citrus and a little pepper there too. A bold and rather weird beer.