Keg: 4.1%.
Bottle: 5.0%
An IPA that maintains the classic bitterness and robustness of the style but with the addition of beautifully fruity American hops and all at an ABV that can be enjoyed all night (4.1% in cask and keg and 5.0% in bottle). Impressively strong and full-flavoured for its ABV, this is a piece of classic and bold Butcombe engineering!
Available permanently in keg and bottle and periodically in cask.
Bottle: 5.0%
An IPA that maintains the classic bitterness and robustness of the style but with the addition of beautifully fruity American hops and all at an ABV that can be enjoyed all night (4.1% in cask and keg and 5.0% in bottle). Impressively strong and full-flavoured for its ABV, this is a piece of classic and bold Butcombe engineering!
Available permanently in keg and bottle and periodically in cask.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 50cl.Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lancing, mostly diminishing, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (170508)
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jul 2008
at 03:02
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm) Amber colour with lasting, rocky, beige head. Fruity nose with orange, apricots and earthy hops. Fruity taste with notes of dried apricots, orange peel, caramel, biscuity malt and earthy hops in a fairly dry finish. Perfectly balanced. Nice bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jun 2008
at 15:46
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled at Ølfestival, Århus, 2008. A golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of caramel, and so is the flavor, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2008
at 16:25
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Golden with a small white head. Spicy and apricot fruity aroma. Dry malty flavour with toffee and that apricot hop in the finish. really quite bitter, and working very well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2008
at 15:34
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear amber with medium off white head. Sweet and fruity with floral hops and caramel notes. Finishes bitter.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2008
at 08:02
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Århus2008. 50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a lacing white head. Mild fruity and light spiced aroma. Flavour is dry hoppy with a light fruity note and solid bitterness into the finish. Dry far finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 May 2008
at 14:30
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Clear amber, firm head. Hay aroma. Medium dry wit clean, runded mouthfeel Medium bodied with a good amount of hops. Salty pleasantly bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2007
at 08:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Another Brunel-themed beer. Aroma was of caramel with citrus and floral hops. Flavours of marmalade and grapefruit before a long bitter finish. Very pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jul 2007
at 11:34
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask Small but persistent yellowish head over dull orange-amber ale. Flowery, hoppy nose, very fresh flowers, both as in -hops and the garden kind, even some honey. Sweet but not cloying, just maltbacking to again flowery hops taste. Fresh, but a beer that might tire easily. There’s a slight sulphury flavour as well, retronasal. Light to medium bodied. Nice, really, but close to the end of good condition.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Jan 2007
at 11:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. This beer is on Wetherspoons spring list of guest ales, so should make its way round to everyone. Copper colour with thin off white head. Good earthy hop. Warm malts in mouth with touch of chocolate. Smells like an orchard in autumn. Lots of good white flesh fruit, earthy bitter, drying hop finish. Very tasty. Full in mouth with heavy dose of Fuggles and Goldings on the end.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Jan 2006
at 05:52