Boilermaker
Brains Craft Brewery in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.25
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Boilermaker is a copper-coloured IPA brewed with Ben and Tom from Thinking Drinkers. Brewed with Chinook, Simcoe, Cascade and Willamette hops and matured with Penderyn whisky infused oak chips in casks from the distillery, the arts of distillation and brewing combine to create an epic Welsh IPA adorned with a fragrant citrus aroma, a touch of spice with hints of vanilla and a warm whisky finish.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 06 Jan 2020
at 12:53
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Red-copper color. Aroma with vanilla, a bit hops and ethers. Taste: malty, hazelnut, vanilla, a little whisky, oak, caramel and toffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2016
at 08:38
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours mahogany into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes to skim surface. Toffee, vanilla and pit fruit aromas. Soft with sweet oak and vanilla upfront turning dry and more oak in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 12 Jun 2015
at 20:39
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
330 ml bottle, from a cornershop in Cardiff, drank it too warm in my hotelroom. Copper colour, moderate head, slightly off-white. Strong sweetish aroma, malts, caramel, whisky, oak, some hints of fruity hops too. The flavour is sweet and malty, with notes of caramel, whisky and oak - but the 4 American hops are hardly noticeable, just a slight fruitiness, and minimal bitterness. Not an IPA this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2015
at 14:33
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Clear copper, small airy white head. Malty aroma with hints of wood. Flavour has caramel and peppery, boozy wood. Lively carb, bitter and sourish finish.
Tried
on 03 Apr 2015
at 10:33
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
part of my 2013 backlog, bottle from sainsburys. Dark amber colour with a large white head. Flavour has malt, spice, citrus zest, grapefruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2015
at 13:57
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle. Clear, reddish golden colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Malty aroma with a touch of toffee, jelly baby sweetness, a cautious herbal-nuttily touch. Taste is nuttily malty, bitter hoppy overtones, minimally oaky. Not much outcome considering the expenditure of ingredients.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2014
at 11:46
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a clear ruby color, topped with a decent off-white head. Initially there’s an extra pleasant whisky aroma which soon fades away, and all is left is caramel and malt. The taste starts sweet, quite some caramel. Following it is a gentle bitterness, complemented by some whisky taste. Quite drinkable and nice.
Tried
on 25 Nov 2014
at 09:23
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours dark golden with a creamy offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, little sweetness, wood, hops. Sweet flavor with malt, caramel, vanilla, little wood, light alcohol. Medium body, soft carbonation, sweet finish witjh some alcohol. 080914
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2014
at 05:22