Northumberland County IPA
Hexhamshire Brewery in Hexham, Northumberland, England 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.43
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We’re delighted that this new ale came 4th in the Battle of the Beers at Newcastle Beer Festival April, 2017. since the competition we have tweaked the beer again and launched it on a permanent basis.
Brewed with British Goldings and Olicana Hops this is a fantastic sessionable British IPA.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Clear amber with small white head. Aroma is sweet with biscuit, grains, straw, zest, light fustiness. Taste again is quite grain/straw noted, a sweet medicinal resin, light boiled fruit, dry and grassy bitterness in the finish. Chewy near medium body. OK.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle online from Northumbrian Gifts, Ashington. Pours clear golden amber with a white cap. Aroma: sweet-ish, pale malts, straw, grass. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, semi-dry palte. Light to medium body with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Northumbrian Gifts. Appearance - golden amber with nice white lacing. Nose - orange, toast, stewed tea. Marzipan weirdly. Tea loaf. Taste - more tea loaf and then cookies. Cranberries lurking. Palate - light to medium bodied. Overall - lovely beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared with Ashton McCobb. Pours clear golden amber with a thin white head. Aromas of marzipan and tea bread. Taste is fruity, raisin and biscuit. Faint spice. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at GBBF '18, day 4, 10/08/18. Clear golden blonde with a decent off white cap. Nose is pale malts, straw, grains, faint orange. Taste comprises much the same ... a touch subdued, grains, bread, airy malts, crackers, light fruit esters. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, semi drying close. Average fayre.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2018 - Day 1 🇬🇧 [ Great British Beer Festival 2018 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.
[ As Hexhamshire Northumberland County IPA ].
ABV: 4.5%. Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, light to moderate hoppy, fruity hops, marmalade hops, light butterscotch. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, pale malt, marmalade hops, light butterscotch. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180807]
6-3-6-3-11
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the GBBF 2018 day 1 07/08/2018. A clear amber orange coloured pour a halo of white head. Aroma is earthy honey, toffee,. Flavour is composed of of semi sweet burnt honey, grassy hop,. Palate is semi sweet, oily, lowish carbonation. Meh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
7th August 2018
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Clear gold, small cream colour head. Light and mildly dry palate, modest fine carbonation. Light sweetish malts. Bitterish marmalade and a mild off note. Modest spice. Light semi dry finish. Meh!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask at GBBF. It pours clear amber with a small bubbly white head. The aroma is earthy, cereal, rivita, spice, old rope, leather and toasted nut. The taste is drying, quite bitter, umami, liquorice, peppery spice, leather, tannin, burnt stuff, cereal with a drying and peppery finish. Medium body and soft carbonation.. Chewy, bitter and spice. Fair.