Hop Rocker

Keg at brewdog Edinburgh. Pours golden amber, nose is lemon, passionfruit, toffee, taste is sweet toffee, light fruit, grassy.

Brown 330ml bottle, best before 10-10-2009, drank on the last day of May 2009. Poured into a Corsendonk stemmed tulip shaped glass. Very slight haze to the beer, otherwise it was an old gold, mid-range lager colour. A white collar and wispy covering sat on top with some lacing as the beer was consummed. Good hop aroma, some mixed fruit in there too (apples and pears?). My nose picked up some yeast hints as well. Hops dominate the taste, is this really a lager? Not as I know it anyway. Rarely has a lager beer tested my tastebuds so. Well hopped beers often become very dry in the aftertaste, this became drier, but not overly so. Not cheek suckingly dry anyway, nor does it taste metallic or like cardboard, a trait I’ve discovered in some lagers as I circumnavigate the globe looking for the perfect pint. Very drinkable, but too hoppy foe me to have as a session drink.

Multiple bottles in the past from Brewdog online. It pours pale yellow, with a thin white head. The nose is sweet malt, sweet citrus and grass. The taste is grass, sweet malt, butter, some floral and distant citrus, with a big bitter finish. Medium body and moderate-high, fizzy carbonation. Not my sort of thing.

330 ml bottle, at Olympen, Oslo. ABV is 5.5%. Deep golden colour, moderate head. Very nice aroma of hops and caramel, hints of butterscotch. Fairly sweet, malty and fruity flavour, hints of toffee and butterscotch.

Medium offwhite shiny lasting head. Amber body with carbonation. Dusty straw and fruit hop aroma with floral notes. Light, harmonic, and yet full of flavour. Dry-sweetish golden floral taste with faint acidic tinge. Mid-bodied. Dusty mouthfeel. Dry fruity floral aftertaste with grain notes. Unusual, nice, and imperfect. Suspect this bottle is not in perfect form. Will rerate. (0.33l bottle, Olympen, Oslo.)

Batch: 084; Best Before: 24/july/09; Slightly cloudy deep golden coloured body with orange highlights and almost no head at all - pretty still. Aroma of super strong manuka (okay, any kind) honey, lemons, oranges, malt and way way way more honey - pretty awesome. Light-bodied; No carbonation! Pale malt up front with a little bit of hops, a bunch of citrus fruit following, all rounded up with of course - HONEY. Aftertaste very dry, showing some grass and hay, yeast and a bunch of citrus flavours. Overall, a pretty good beer, minus the lack of carbonation. Granted, my bottle might have been a bit undercarbonated, but I’m curious if anyone else sampled from my batch? I sampled this 330 mL bottle purchased from the Utobeer Market Stall in Borough (London), England on 13-December-2008, sampled at home in Washington, DC on 05-February-2009.

Bottle at Cockney Pub, Århus
Golden color. The aroma is lightly grassy. It has a good body, with some malt flavor, good bitterness, lightly fruity.

[330ml bottle.] Golden straw with a quickly fading white head - moderate carbonation - intense floral hop aroma - sharp hoppy flavour to start with, developing a thick and malty body with tropical fruits - then a sharply bitter finish like a good bitter orange marmalade. Better than the average lager!

Bottle. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt and fairly rich with hops.