Chimera I.P.A.
Downton Brewery in Downton, Wiltshire, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.24
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A traditional India Pale Ale, brewed with a hugely increased hop rate for a strong, floral aroma, and a powerful, bitter taste. East Kent Goldings, Challenger, Fuggles, Pacific Gem and Pioneer hops
Downton Brewery Chimera IPA is a truly classic IPA bursting with resinous hoppy flavours that packs quite a punch - justas a traditional IPA should. Refreshing for the summer, yet strong enough to be warming in the winter;brewed with a hugely increased hop rate for a strong, floral aroma, and a powerful, bitter taste.
Downton Brewery Chimera IPA is a truly classic IPA bursting with resinous hoppy flavours that packs quite a punch - justas a traditional IPA should. Refreshing for the summer, yet strong enough to be warming in the winter;brewed with a hugely increased hop rate for a strong, floral aroma, and a powerful, bitter taste.
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3.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle, Empire wines, Birmingham. Bit of a let down this one. Darkish golden.Aroma of rotting grass clippings and stale feet.. mmmmm The alcohol is not masked well at all, and makes this a bit of a nasty expierence. Seems like more of a super T style lager than an IPA, not completely awful, but teeters on the precipice of rankness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 May 2008
at 14:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Half pint from cask at Charlies. Pours slight hazy yellow with a diminished white head. Mild fruity hoppy aroma. Flavour is sweet fruity hops with a sweet caramel malt base, but dominated by hops. Light fruity finish, mellow bitterness in the finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Jan 2008
at 06:10
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
ambrata buna schima abbondante grossolana ma persistente sentori erbacei di lupplo che prevale bilanciando bene il malto
Tried
on 02 Dec 2007
at 17:16
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at home.... golden amber ... little spicy hop ... good fruity body .... with a deep hop charcater thats a little bitter in front but mellows offf... juicy with sweet hop resins ... works well with my Leffe chilli.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2007
at 15:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Big white head. Yellow body. Soft, resiny pine needle aroma. Simple, but nice. Sweetish hoppy resiny pine needle taste with notes of chocolate(?!), malts, and hay. Soft, silky mouthfeel. Dry, resiny hay aftertaste. Nice, understated IPA. Good session beer, or would be, if it wasn’t too strong. (0.5l bottle from Real Ale Ltd.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2007
at 16:12
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Slightly hazy, pale yellow with citrussy hops in the aroma. More hops in the mouth providing a taste of grapefruit and elderflowersl, accompanied by sweet malt. An enjoyable pale ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2007
at 03:15
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled. Clear golden. Citric nose. Sweet malt mixes with sugar and multi-fruit juice blend. Near full bodied with softm, rounded mouthfeel. Long salty finish. Interesting beer, but well sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2007
at 03:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Casked (as Chimera IPA, 6.7%). Honeyish golden colour with foamy white, longlasting head. Aroma is honey, nectar, hops and slight earthyness. Flavour is enormously flowery hops balanced up with some honey and spices. Spices and grass mainly dominate the aftertaste. A very pleasant one.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jan 2007
at 11:40
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
500ml bottle from Bacchanalia, Cambridge. I was looking forward to this. Some people had bad bottles, so I was in two minds, but I had a good one. Gold colour with lasting white head. Strong citrus astringent hop aroma. Really very leafy floral hop, like De Ranke XX Bitter. Just gorgeous. Enough malt to give it a bit of body. Sour astringent aroma. Sherberty hop finish. Wonderful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2007
at 11:18
3.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Cask at The Duke of Wellington Norwich 26 Sep 2006. Dark brown golden coloured. A tiny head. Unpleasant metallic aroma. Strange fruity flavour. Abrubt ending. An uninteresting IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 24 Oct 2006
at 04:30