Durham Brewery Bombay 106

Bombay 106

 

Durham Brewery in Bowburn, Durham, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  IPA Regular Out of Production
Score
6.75
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 72 Ticks: 43
The palest maris otter malt provides a full bodied base for generous quantities of Goldings hops. Bitterness is pronounced, spicy and resinous and will smooth out over time. Dry hopping with extra Goldings before bottling ensures a full aroma and rich characterful bitterness.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Old rating from 19-04-15 - 500ml bottle from Dunell's in Jersey. Pours golden with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, grass, lemon, bread & malt. Medium body. Dry moderate bitter finish. Highly enjoyable

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jun 2025 at 15:39


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

500 ml bottle, sampled in 2015. Pours chestnut brown with a beige cap. Aroma: pear, baked apple, fruity esters. Taste: light to moderate sweet & moderate bitter, biscuit malts, melon, citrus pith, pine, light boozy. Medium body with foamy carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Feb 2023 at 23:31


5.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Pale colour, small frothy head, decent lacing. Aroma is grassy hops, quite astringent. Medium bitterness. Feels rather harsh.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Oct 2017 at 15:43


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Cotteridge Wines. Clear golden with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, toasted and light hoppy. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 270717

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jul 2017 at 12:57


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ Cotteridge Wines, Birmingham. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are hops, flowers, fruits and malt. Light bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jul 2017 at 12:54


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

At a tasting, thanks, small bubbly creamy head, quite hazy deepish yellow color, shrubby, minty, herbal aroma, some vanila in the back, shrubby, waxy, vanila flavor, light biscuity sweetness, light to medium bitterness, pleasant But not too exciting.

Tried on 12 Nov 2016 at 12:39


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle sample at a tasting at Max’s place. Thanks tomer. Hazy yellow. Aroma of somewhat skunky stale hops, graininess. Sweetish flavor with malt, graininess, and bitter hops, somewhat skunky. Medium-bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2016 at 11:36


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

6th Feb 2015: 3rd Belgian Beer Board bottle exchange at De Bierboom (Brugge). Shared bottle. Pale golden pour with a white topping. Nice blend in both the nose and taste, both malts and hops combining to give a good bitter and refreshing feel to the brew. Mild citrus notes are equalled out by a spicy and fruitiness below the surface. Nice, the alcohol level suited the flavours and although high for a UK IPA I thought it an interesting and delightful beer.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2015 at 03:04


7
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

English-style IPA (glad those are still around as well, among all those - lovely - American interpretations), my first beer from this particular county. Stubby, very English 50 cl bottle. This bottle has apparently been lying down, as the neck contained a fair amount of a substance looking a lot like ’mud’ (probably dead yeast and proteins)... A bit off-putting I must say, but anyway. Cloudy peach blonde with more bits of this ’mud’ floating around; thick, regular, lightly yellowish white, creamy, stable head. A whole basket of ripe fruit in the nose, cantaloupe, orange, strawberry, overripe pear, lemon, pineapple, and impressions of limoncello, yoghurt, hay, tonic water, aspirin, vanilla. Crisp onset, sharpish carbonation, vivid fruitiness but more dry than I had expected, yeasty, minerally, bready with a grainy and smooth pale maltiness underneath, hop bitterness setting in early and increasing in the finish, explicitly bitter like grapefruit or even tonic water, leafy, very earthy and spicy, very long, tingling, with some malt sweetness underlying it and a hint of warming, gin-like alcohol. This is great for hop lovers, very quenching and appetizing, in which the Goldings hops shine in all their glory. Interesting indeed, as I mostly had citrussy, American hops in my IPAs lately.

Tried from Can on 07 Feb 2015 at 09:10


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

500ml bottle from the brewery, shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours clear pale gold, thick white head. Aromas are soapy, lemon, biscuit. Taste is dry, lots of hop resin, buy in a very British way.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2014 at 13:31