Divide & Conquer - New England Pale
Vocation Brewery in Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Pale Ale - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.17
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This is Divide & Conquer, our fearlessly hop forward New England Pale that's as smooth as it is striking – and never one to be underestimated. Expect dramatic waves of juiciness and a haze that won’t quit. Brace yourself for a charge of Mosaic and Simcoe, delivering notes of pineapple, passionfruit and pine.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at CASK. It pours near black with a small beige head. The nose is sweet, sticky, chocolate, dandelion & Burdock, sweaty, resinous, dank and charred wood. The taste is bitter-sweet, bitter pine, some astringency, resin, charred wood, rocky road, varnish, dirty, citrus rind, peppery, chocolate, tar, burnt treacle, dark fruits and booze with a dry, bitter finish. Medium body, soft carbonation and slightly sticky mouth-feel. Chewy stuff. Punchy, but a bit rough around the edges.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Jun 2015
at 07:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the CP&K, 02/06/15, thanks to LKS for the nod. Dark mahogany brown with a decent beige covering that retains well. Nose is light charr, pine needle, light floral, earthy hop, tropical fruit notes, caramel, light Ribena berry. Taste comprises perfumed notes, charr, liquorice stick, light cocoa, earthy hop presence, pine resin, shades of parma violets. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close peppered with semi aggressive hop bitterness. Decent cask XDA, quite bitter but contrasts with a perfumed / floral effect. Re rate can 23/03/16. More pine bite, charr, earthy hop, bitter citric, light pine. Sharper and cleaner than the cask offering I rated first. Solid XDA. Original 3.4 new 3.7.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jun 2015
at 10:05
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cask at CPK - London. Pours deep down with a creamy khaki head. Rich roasted malts and oily pine in the nose, some chocolate. Medium sweet flavor with s bit of hitter lime rind, earthy hops, heavy grass, more pine, bittersweet cocoa. Medium bodied, chewy, with fine carbonation. Heavy, aggressively bitter finish with lots of grass, citrus peel, earth, pine. A little out of balance towards the bitter end of he spectrum. Otherwise, it’s nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jun 2015
at 12:38