Young Master Brewery 少爺釀酒廠 1842 Island Imperial IPA

1842 Island Imperial IPA

 

Young Master Brewery 少爺釀酒廠 in Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong 🇭🇰

  IPA - Imperial / Double Regular
Score
7.16
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 80 Ticks: 29
The Island 1842 is an Imperial IPA designed for those who prefer a bold and powerful drink. Our goal with this beer was to coax out and showcase every nuance that our outsized malt and hop bill had to offer. This beer’s hop character is potent with additions in the first wort, constantly through the boil, at flameout and then generously during fermentation. In order to balance the strong hop profile, we built an appropriately robust malt backbone. The moment you pour Island 1842 into your snifter, expect a powerful nose of spicy, floral and zesty hops. The complexity of flavor will then continue to unfold with each sip and the flavor will linger on the palate.

看到IPA這個字便會令人聯想起芳香撲鼻的啤酒花,但1842 Island IPA除了鮮明銳利的酒花外,麥芽風味亦非常濃郁飽滿。澎湃的酒花麥芽味道配搭上豐盈的酒體,均衡地建立了悠長的餘韻。
 

Sign up to add a tick or review

Join Us


     Show


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught at The Ale Project, Kowloon - Hong Kong, on October 7, 2017. As 20 cl pours.Slight bit hazy golden to amber color, off-white to yellow head. Hoppy, citrus, caramel taste. Bitter, alcohol, hoppy aftertaste. Warming alcohol. Medium full to full mouthfeel, high bitterness. Hoppy, fruity, caramel, some cheese scent.7/4/7/4/14=3.6

Tried on 21 Oct 2017 at 04:16


8.3
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

330ml bottle. Pours hazy orange-amber with a tall off-white head. Aroma is oranges, malt, pine. Taste is medium sweet, peach, oranges, dry, moderate bitterness. Very drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Oct 2017 at 10:19


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pour from a bottle @ BeerFes Yokohama, September 17th, 2017. I think this was leftover from The International Beer Cup 2017, held at the same location during previous days. Nice golden amber pour. Not very carbonated, with a fresh hop nose, resiny, tropical. Tastes clean. Nice tropics and good hop strenghth there. Tropical hoppy DIPA at its best. Good one. Tasty.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2017 at 09:32


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

Crisp copper and bronze coloured body with a nice, three centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of grassy hops, a good deal of earthier malts, a hint of citrus and some alcohol notes. Medium-bodied; Earthy malt flavours with a good deal of cardboard, some alcohol and grain with grasses and only a touch of hops, mostly from the staler side of things without much alpha acids at all. Aftertaste shows more of the earthier and malt side of things instead of any hops and pungency, but some of the alcohol and toffee/caramelised sugars come through. Overall, an interesting beer that shows malt, alcohol and caramel, but not as much hops as I’d expect for the style and perhaps a bit too little for this to be categorised in this style, even here in the East. I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from City’Super! at One IFC in the IFC Mall in Hong Kong [island] on 29-July-2017 for HK$30,00 sampled in my hotel room here in Admiralty, Hong Kong [island] on 04-August-2017.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Aug 2017 at 01:42


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Re-rate (26 December 2017): Poured from 330mL bottle. Slightly hazy orangey yellow with off white head. Mild biscuit malt with light tropical hops and bitter grapefruit hops. Fairly average for a DIPA. Previous Rating (17 July 2017): Ar 7/10 Ap 3/5 Ta 7/10 Pa 3/5 Ov 15/20 [3.5] Poured from the tap. Medium orange with off white head. Light biscuit malt with bitter grapefruit hops. Decent.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2017 at 08:31


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

Spritziger, vollmundig hopfiger Antrunk. Dunkle Getreidenoten, wenig Alkohol. Dieser steigert sich zum Mittelteil, der Hopfen wird trocken, verliert aber nichts von seiner Intensität. Bitter, gut. 10/11/11/12//11

Tried on 18 Mar 2017 at 02:22


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at the Roundhouse, HK. Floral sweetish body. Great fruity hops on a smooth and not too sweetish body. Highly drinkable, fresh and smooth. Round and moderate bitter aftertaste with smooth and fresh hops and sweetish malt. Nice.

Tried from Draft on 20 May 2015 at 04:18


4.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Hazy Amber color. The nose is way too malty wit some off putting characteristics. Malty unbalanced directionless. Nothing too positive

Tried on 26 Apr 2015 at 03:51


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Tap at Roundhouse - thought I'd rated this already. Dark almost opaque iron rust-colored pour. Aroma is very malty with a bit of fruity hops. Taste is very bitter with some fruit flavor hops - peach and mango. Very malty too to balance. Lasting bitterness with a little boozy warmth. Not bad at all but a bit muddled. Updated Feb 2022 after countless tastings. Surprised I was so harsh in 2015. This is the original HK DIPA, and I appreciate its more west coast-leanings. While the recipe has changed over the years, it remains very very solid. I think it’s gotten less malty and metallic and a bit more tropical in its hop profile but I could be wrong. Always good. Raised 3.6–>3.8

Tried from Draft on 19 Apr 2015 at 01:38