Platform Driver
Polly's Brew Co. in Mold, Flintshire, Wales 🏴
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
7.08
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Ask anyone who has followed the history of the brewery for long enough and they’ll always say that Polly’s love to give the spotlight to the classics, whilst embracing their status as modern day juice slingers. This couldn’t be more apparent on Platform Driver – a classic text-book Polly’s beer if ever there were one. Two hop showcase referring that long lost love of ours, the Originals range? Check. Bringing an old school hop to the party with a new school hype variety? Hell yeah, why not. Platform Driver brings a rhythm section of Centennial, keeping everything together with those classic citrus, grassy, and resinous pine notes, whilst Galaxy is the flashy showcase, bringing a whole host of ripe apricot, peach, and passionfruit aromas, with just a whisper of dankness in the back. Finished with a flourish by our in-house LA3 strain, this is team Polly’s doing what they do best.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Keg draught at the Real Ale Classroom, Stoneygate, Leicester. Light yellow/gold, hazy. Small film of white head. Aroma gives vanilla, mango, melon. A bit sweaty. Taste is very malt-led for a Polly's pale. Sweet, sticky biscuit notes leading to a bitter hop flavour. Grassy notes nearer the finish. Light to medium body with medium carbonation. A bit odd but still very good.
Tried
from Draft
at
Real Ale Classroom (Stoneygate)
on 10 Jul 2025
at 17:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can. Very hazy orange golden. Oats, soft cocoa, grapes, kiwi, coconut, soft malts. Like a tropical fruit pie with some chocolate and marihuana. Medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied. Good!
Tried
from Can
on 10 Oct 2023
at 18:21
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap@Taphouse, Copenhagen (01/09/2023) - Lots of passion fruit and mango, some lemon and grapefruit, sweet malty support, hop spice bite, balanced light bitter hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Oct 2023
at 10:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Beerheadz Lincoln. Hazy pale golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are light crisp grapefruit and slight pine. Medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jul 2023
at 12:21