Bilberry Milkshake IPA
BAD Co. - Brewing & Distilling Company in Dishforth, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
IPA - Milkshake Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.16
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Manchester Beer Festival 2020. Hazed soured fruity brew, but not much milkshake styling found despite the name. It's ok.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask @ Chequers Micropub, Beverley. Hazy amber with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity, berries and light hoppy - fruity. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 120220
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask @ Chequers Micropub, Beverley. Nice head with good duration. Color is hazy golden. Aroma and taste are rich hops, fruits, vanilla, lactose, flowers, malt and has a sweet lactose and fruity finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Wooden cask at the 2020 Manchester Beer Festival. Murky dark brown pour. Blueberry jam and blackcurrant nose. Blueberry and harsh sweet herbs in the taste, bit of red cabbage and beetroot. Not my cup of tea.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Muddy brown colour with no head. Aroma has some sharp red fruits. There also some pink rock candy. Bizarrely this has a salty edge like a Gose. Thick lactose texture.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
From wooden cask at the Manchester Beer & Cider Festival 24.01.20. Muddy chestnut colour. Quickly diminshing head. Fruity and taste of papaya, brett, wood, pale malt and old jam.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Milkshake IPA with blueberries, from tap at Geus Van Gent, thanks Craftmember for sharing. Medium thick, off-white, mousy, slowly dissipating head, cloudy peach blonde robe with darker ochre-brownish tinge. Aroma of strawberries more than actual blueberries, mango juice, lychee, blood orange, brioche bread, apricot yoghurt. Sweet fruity onset, lychee and mango effects with a sweet ripe berry note but again more reminiscent of strawberries than blueberries (or indeed bilberries), fizzy carb, soft doughy maltiness with only a limited amount of lactose sweetness and creaminess, mild citric hoppiness in the finish, soft in bitterness but very aromatic with notes of lychee and blood orange, though not in an overly exuberant way. In that sense, this beer remains relatively true to the 'core' of international IPA, remaining 'taut', slender and dry enough to actually kind of hide its 'milkshake IPA' intentions; the bilberries too remain relatively subtle. Unexpectedly well-contained - I rather have fruit and milkshake IPAs like this than the almost 'real' fruit juice concoctions you often see in this segment. This is still very much IPA (albeit a 'postmodern' one) and not too much fruit juice, and in my book, this deserves an extra point.