2nd September 2012
Bright clear gold beer, little white head. Light dry palate. Pleasant light hops, a little yellow grapefruit, followed by lemon and lime and a touch of melon. The malt is very light. Semi dry finish. Not bad. Decent bitter linger.

Gravity dispense at the 23rd Battersea Beer Festival - 06/02/13. Lightly hazed pale blonde with a thin white head. Nose carries caramel malt, hops, grass, aspartamic sugars. Taste compries hops, pale malt, grapefruit, citrus, caramel. Medium bodied, soft carbonation. Decent fayre.

Cask @ Bow, Edinburgh [050213]
Light golden, slight haze, thin dense white head, some lacing
Aroma of lemony hops, citrus, some grape, soft grapefruit, light pale malt
Taste of grapefruit hops, tropical fruits, sweet pale malts, resinous hops, pretty hoppy with a fair amount of sweet pale malts in there too but it’’s not a US ’hop bomb’
Palate - medium body, fairly oily texture, quite sticky, sherberty hops on the palate. Very fruity tail of sweet pale malts and bitter citrus hops
Overall - A good ’English-style’ APA - I do recall having it in Spoons last year and it was even more sweet hoppy and resinous

Bottle from M&S. Clear golden body with a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of grass and green tea. Flavour of herbs, digestive and pear. Thin body with an oily mouthfeel. Soft carbonation. A light, simple beer.

Bottle shared as a road soda. Pours clear golden with an off white head. Aroma of citrus, malt, bitter and light caramel. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Bottle from Bernie's, Solihull, a clear straw yellow pour, with a short-lived head and no lace. A hop bomb indeed and the combination works well. A lovely hoppy, yet smooth bitterness with a nice long lived spicy aftertaste. Worth it's rating. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

33cl bottle shared with friends. Thin white head. Clear golden pour. Nice citrus hoppiness.

Pours golden yellow with a lively 3 finger head a lot of carbonation the head almost disappeared after a couple of gulps. There is a feint hop aroma not a bomb, good bitter taste throughout with only a slight citrus undertone nice beer I was expecting something different.

Hand pulled pint in my local (The Cock Hotel, Wellington): Oct 2011; UK pint sleeve. Fairly light amber, bordering on golden body, with a thin but staying white head throughout the pint. Amarillo and Citra hops ensured the nose was hoppy, whatever malts were used stopped it becoming too bitter and hop dry in the taste: this was obviously hoppy by nature of its name, but it had a balance, even if the scales were heavily leaning towards the hop side. The actual taste was hop bitter and citrusy, with some bready maltiness just below the surface preventing the beer becoming to sharp or piney. Overall not bad at all, not quiet as explosive as the name suggests, but certainly hoppier than most UK brews, although some breweries (like this one) are beginning to produce hoppier beers than say two years ago.

Cask (The Rockstone, Southampton) - Golden in colour. Grapefruit, tea and passion fruit in the aroma. Hoppy and refreshing taste with notes of grapefruit, passion fruit and peach.