355ml bottle. Clear, orangey golden colour with small, frothy, fading, minimally lacing, white head. Hoppy aroma, minimally floral, a touch of apple, gooseberry, grainy, biscuity background. Taste is minimally sweet malty, slightly fruity and floral hoppy, a touch of gooseberry, apple, diluted plum wine. Old school, British, boring.

35cl Bottle from drankgigant.nl. Golden orange colour, white head. Aroma of caramel, light malty, a bit herbal, floral and earthy. Flavour follows, subtle floral and earthy bitterness with some toffee. Light bodied. Decent English IPA.

Bottle, 355 ml from Coppers 8 till 8, Newcastle. Shared with JFK10000. Pours orange with off-white head. Light fruits and toasted malty aroma and flavor. Sweetish with dry bitter finish.

My first beer from this brewery. Clear orange blonde with low sparkling, under a medium, lightly lacing, very regular, finely textured, clotted cream-coloured head. Aroma is not unlike many of the blonde Belgian ales hopped with Fuggle / Styrian Golding: an earthy, elegant, somewhat soapy and minty hoppiness remaining gentle enough to leave space for fruity esters and sweetish malts. I get brown bread, marmelade, soap, young cheese, mango, some caramel, hazelnuts, faint hint of eucalyptus, acacia honey, dough, peach and biscuit - in all: strikingly weak hop presence for an American IPA. Sweetish onset of honey and candied fruits but in a very subdued, ’quiet’ way, pretty soft carbonation, hint of salty minerals, toasted malts taking over, a bit nutty and ’biscuity’, bittering and in that sense blending well with the ensuing hop bitterness, which retains an earthy, soapy, leafy, peppery character, nothing of the high alpha acids hops I had expected (and, quite honestly, hoped for), yet long and dry, just remaining ’low’ and - frankly - a bit boring. This is not an IPA to me, not even completely in the classical English sense of the word (which was the first thing that sprung to mind when missing the American citrus hops in the nose); this seems to be more close to a (very) hoppy Belgian blonde. Which is not a disappointment per se because in this category it would hold its own pretty well, I just expected American hoppiness from it.

From tap. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small off white head. Aroma is toasted malty and light fruity. Sweet, fruity snd slight earthy hoppy. Bitter, drry snd towards herbal. Rather bitter finish.

Duft av citrus, eik, malt og honning. Dunkel gulbrun farge. Tynn hinne skum, heng langs kant. Litt syrlig smak av eik, citrus og en anelse honning.

330ml bottle from Tesco. It does say imported by Marstons, not brewed at Marstons. Orange hazy, colour with a white head. Aroma has malt and hops. Taste had some more hops and a vague hint of medicine.

Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a hazy burnt orange color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute.
There was some light lacing here and there in no intricate fashion as it just kind of went all over the place.
The smell had some light citrus hops that were over top of some English malts. Obvious soapiness is slightly there.
The taste was mainly sweet through the malts and the hops.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but still slightly subdued as well.
Overall, this beer was decent as an English IPA that I could down again.

355ml bottle ftom Aldi - Hazy amber body, thin white froth. Nose is plummy and little else, the expected fruity sweetness doesn’t come in the taste, and it comes across as being an average cheap IPA at best.
Earlier Rating: 12/6/2013 Total Score: 2.5
355ml bottle ftom Tesco - Hazy amber body, thin white froth. Nose is plummy and little else, the expected fruity sweetness doesn’t come in the taste, and it comes across as being an average cheap IPA at best.

Bottle from Gardiner & haskins, Bristol. Ple gold with a big, white, head. Hay, lemon fruits, cereal mlats, a touch of sharp, grassy hop and moderately bitter finish. Ok.