6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Light bodied with citrussy hop, some orange, light pine, pale malt. Moderate bitter, lightly sweetish. Sessionable but forgettable.

6.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can from Asda; clear light amber pour with a bubby white head, aroma has straw bales covered in orange juice, taste has hint of pine, light citrus, minimally bitter, weak malts, I could imagine having a session on this, crisp and inoffensive.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Typical 'new style' BrewDog, a generic SIPA which does not even disclose the hop varieties used - and widely available, as my sample comes from an Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren, Flanders. Thick and moussey, foamy, egg-white, membrane-lacing, dense, stable head on a crystal clear 'metallic' yellow-golden robe with one thin string of visible sparkling in the middle. Aroma of straw, dry old cardboard (so clearly too old at this point), very old crackers, dry 'herbes de Provençe', old dried grapefruit peel, overripe onion, old dusty white pepper, bread crust, hints of industrial pancakes, soap, damp earth and rubber. Crisp, clean onset, some basic pear- and peach-like fruitiness but restrainedly so, sweetish with a sourish edge enhanced by sharp, minerally, stingy carbonation; smooth body, medium full with generic pale malty middle, slick, cereally and sweetish. From the middle onwards things get drier and hoppier, with a leafy, grassy, bit wormwoody bittering, lasting for quite a while without drying everything; an aromatic touch of dried grapefruit peel and (more so) onion is added retronasally, but the luscious 'tropical' and 'piney' notes the brewery describes are all but absent - or, if they were ever present at all, must have faded by now. Ends dry and bitter but in a mild, gentle kind of way, while the malts, already feeble from the start, ingloriously fade away. A generic session IPA for the masses, filtered and cleaned to a macro brewery kind of level - this is apparently what BrewDog, which once rocked the sleepy European beer scene, has become in all those years...

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

330ml can from Love Wine in Jersey. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aromas & tastes of citrus, light fruits, grass & grain. Moderate body. Light bitter finish. Passably enjoyable

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can from Tesco. Light clear gold with small white top. Notes of pine, pithy citrus and light tropical. Quite crisp and sweet but with reasonable bitterness. Good session beer.

6.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

330ml can. Pours slightly hazy light gold with a medium head. Aroma is sherbet lemon and a little papaya. Taste has sherbet lemon, papaya, helly and a touch of grass.

6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pale golden with a white head - Fruity citrus hop aroma - Malt body with a fruity and citrus hop flavour with some bitterness - Hop flavours goes into the finish - This was nice

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Clear pale golden color with medium white head. Aroma: citrus, lime, orange peel. Taste: lime, orange zest, orange peel. Light bodied, moderate carbonation, moderate bitterness. Quite good.