Surrey Nirvana
Hogs Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey, England 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.38
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A modern and easy drinking, well balanced Session IPA with an enticing aroma blending citrus and tropical notes with a clean, dry finish and characteristic grapefruit high notes. Brewed with Cascade hops from our hop garden and complemented with US Mosaic and Centennial hops added late in the brew to make the perfect tropical marriage.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Chequers Inn, Stourbridge. Pours pale gold with a medium head. Aroma is lemon and tropical fruit. Taste has sharp straw and lemon with a little tropical fruit.
Tried
from Cask
on 31 Jul 2026
at 19:10
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Cask up the White Lady. Pours clear golden with a decent, bubbly white head. Aromas of lemon and biscuit, faint pineapple and orange. Taste is more of the same. Light bitter finish. Fine.
Tried
on 23 Apr 2026
at 16:25
5.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From the cask at JDW Mossy Well. Clear golden colour with a white head. Fresh tasting with notes of citrus and melon. A touch of fresh pink grapefruit as you would have at breakfast. Not much aroma and a medium to light body. A nice session beer.
Tried
from Cask
at
Mossy Well (JDW)
on 02 Apr 2026
at 16:37
5.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5.5
Fra cask på The Globe Moorgate: klar lys gylden med fint skum som varer. Citrus, urter, lys malt i en slank maltkropp. Halvtørr avslutning.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Nov 2025
at 12:57
7/10
Magus, mõru, linnaseline, kuiv, puuviljane. Ok.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Aug 2025
at 17:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 7
Overall 6
Sample at the gate house jdw.
Thin white head. Clear pale golden pour. Light bitterness.
Thin white head. Clear pale golden pour. Light bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
at
The Gate House (JDW)
on 10 Apr 2025
at 16:32
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle from Sainsbury's and drunk at home. Clear pale brown colour lasting white head. Decent enough bitter. Certainly it seems British brewers are using more hops. Their presence is much more obvious. It has some malt, some distinctive white pepper hops on the finish. I thought very decent. Very drinikable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2025
at 19:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
0,5l bottle from bottle from Sainsbury's Supermarket in Horsham. Head is thin, white, quick gone. Colour is gold, light hazy. Aroma is orange, mandarine, some tropical fruits. Taste is light malty base, orange, mandarine, mango touch, nice balanced bitterness, refreshing, enjoyed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2024
at 19:07
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at The Plume of Feathers, Greenwich. Notes of liquorice on the nose. Gold look. Quite sweet and clean ending. Decent.
Tried
from Cask
on 28 Jun 2024
at 08:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sainsbury's Supermarket, Halifax. Golden-amber with a small bubbly head. Easy enough with pithy orange citrus notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2024
at 18:05