Gamma Ray
Beavertown Brewery in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.25
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The concept was to create a juicy tropical beer. A brew you can sit on and drink all day, rammed with juicy malts and huge tropical aromas of mango and grapefruit. Massive additions of whole leaf American hops are added in ever increasing numbers at the end of the boil giving huge hop flavour. The beer is then dry hopped for days, driving the punchy aromas so you can smell it from miles away!
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4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Funny, I came to have a look at my original rating from years ago when Gamma Ray was first released in bottles. And it turns out I never rated it. Odd. Those were good days. The early days of craft beer as we know it. Admiring the wall of bottles in Borough Wines and picking out 7 or 8 from Partizan, Beavertown, ELB and Kernel. It felt like selecting obscure records from Rough Trade; great works of art from the creative underground, out of reach of the mainstream. Didn't last that long for Gamma Ray. Brewed then by a couple of people in a basement with love and care. Now mechanised and brewed in huge volumes for lairy football fans to chug. To me, this is one of the differences between craft beer and mainstream beer. The spirit and passion behind Gamma may be gone but it's not forgotten.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2020
at 09:39
7/10
Sanfte Bitterkeit, sehr bekömmlich
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Feb 2020
at 20:08
7/10
Fresh & hoppy
Tried
on 25 Nov 2019
at 17:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33cl can from Horsham in UK, many thanks to my wife's couisin Betka. Big, egg-white good retention head. Shiny gold, light hazy colour. Orange, grapefruits, fresh tropical fruits, caramel touch. Medium malty base, orange, grapefruits, tropical fruits, nice not strong yet long lasting harmonic bitterness, medium carbonation, good one, enjoyed.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Oct 2019
at 17:33
7/10
Tried
on 01 Oct 2019
at 17:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can@Ølfred Aarhus StreetFood. Pours hazy dark golden with large white head. Aroma is pine, rosehip, lilac, lavender and fresh mown grass. Taste is very sweet, medium bitter and faint acidic. Body is creamy with light carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet and bitter with notes of sugar, pine, flowers, lavender and mint. Very rich.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Oct 2019
at 16:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Can) Pours hazy golden amber with huge loose white head. Great piney hop aroma, with hints of grapefruit. Medium bodied with nice bright carbonation. Taste has a nice background of biscuity malt. Some gentle citrusy notes at the start. Some nice hoppy notes throughout. Surprisingly modest bitter finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Sep 2019
at 20:12
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at Dukes. Orange, slightly cloudy not much head. Aroma is fruity, tropical, citrus. Quite full on pungency, bitterness. Taste is lightly fruity, pineapple, bit of tropical, some citrus. Bit of twiggy maltiness. --- Beer merged from original tick of Gamma Ray on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:05 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Tap at Dukes. Orange, slightly cloudy not much head. Aroma is fruity, tropical, citrus. Quite full on pungency, bitterness. Taste is lightly fruity, pineapple, bit of tropical, some citrus. Bit of twiggy maltiness.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:02
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can, 5.4%. Papery aroma. Hazy dark golden colour. Big stable off-white head. The flavour is teaish and very bitter. Some hop bite. Bready finish.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Sep 2019
at 11:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can. Blonde. Soft melon and lemon aroma. Sweetish, floral grassy citric hopbitter flavor. Grassy hopbitter finish. Good stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:06