Wild Hop IPA (Bottle)
Harviestoun in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland 🏴
IPA - Session Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.53
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Hops don’t get wilder than this! The positively manicAmerican hop combination leads the normally restrained East Kent Goldings and Fuggles on a wild hoppy taste journey!
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sainsburys
Amber colour, frothy white head that dissipates and a bit of lacing. Aroma is of light sweet pale malts, and some citrus light orangey hop. Quite mild rather than wild on the nose. Taste of sweet caramel pale malts, bit resinous, fairly bitter hops. The malts are quite dominant here with slightly astringent bitter hop placed against them. Fairly simple in flavour, more bitter than fruity with the hops, more sweet with the malts. Medium body with a slightly oily texture. Finish as main flavour with a lingering bit astringent bitter tail
Overall - It’s ok - the hops are not wild and they are more bitter than fruity. It’s OK but I won’t be rushing out to buy it again
Amber colour, frothy white head that dissipates and a bit of lacing. Aroma is of light sweet pale malts, and some citrus light orangey hop. Quite mild rather than wild on the nose. Taste of sweet caramel pale malts, bit resinous, fairly bitter hops. The malts are quite dominant here with slightly astringent bitter hop placed against them. Fairly simple in flavour, more bitter than fruity with the hops, more sweet with the malts. Medium body with a slightly oily texture. Finish as main flavour with a lingering bit astringent bitter tail
Overall - It’s ok - the hops are not wild and they are more bitter than fruity. It’s OK but I won’t be rushing out to buy it again
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2012
at 16:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml Bottle (5.2% ABV): best before Dec 2012, poured into an Abbot Ale glass tankard on 10 Aug 2012. Light amber/golden body with a mini-haze within: full and deep head of white bubbles on top, left some good lacing on the side of the tankard. Mixed hop aroma: floral, citrusy and piney all rolled into a wooden barrel and shaken up. The taste follows that mixed barrel of hops in the smell almost to the letter: with the bitterness you’d expect from such a heavily hopped beer evident straight away, the wood feel also in the flavours. The malt content is well below the surface, traces of caramel are just about detectable and this prevents the beer becoming too hop orientated. I enjoyed it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2012
at 06:31
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Aroma: Pronounced cereal notes. This definitely doesn’t smell like an IPA.
Appearance: Clear golden body with a thin white head. Lively carbonation. Excellent lacing.
Taste: The British hops are more prevalent than the American hops - the flavour is mostly earthy and grassy. There’s a hint of pine, grapefruit and it’s slightly nutty.
Palate: Thin body with a slick mouthfeel. Fizzy carbonation.
Overall: Not as wild or as hoppy as I’d hoped it would be.
Appearance: Clear golden body with a thin white head. Lively carbonation. Excellent lacing.
Taste: The British hops are more prevalent than the American hops - the flavour is mostly earthy and grassy. There’s a hint of pine, grapefruit and it’s slightly nutty.
Palate: Thin body with a slick mouthfeel. Fizzy carbonation.
Overall: Not as wild or as hoppy as I’d hoped it would be.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jul 2012
at 16:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange yellow colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, moderate hoppy, grass, citrus, hop oil - hop extract, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, sweet malt, sweet fruit, hoppy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111202]
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2012
at 08:26
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled@Chriso. Yellow colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel malts, fruity and floral notes along with some slight resiny tones. Flavour is fruity, floral, mild honey, resin and herbal notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2011
at 00:27
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
bottle at home ... thanks to Fin .... crisp golden yellow .. thin white head ... soft sweet grassy lemon ... zezty lemon ... light oily lemon bitterness ... little hay ... very blah... not bad just not exciting
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Nov 2011
at 11:01
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Sainsburys. Pale gold with a decent white head, Creamy malt, citrus and grassy hop aroma. Flavour of sweet cereal and hedgerow fruits leading to a very bitter finish. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2011
at 04:35
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Sainsbury’s Purley Way. It pours straw yellow, with a thin bubbly white head. The nose is pepper, grapefruit, vanilla and sweet candy .The taste is full of cracked black pepper, light aniseed, grapefruit pith, grass, metal and resin, with a big warming bitter finish. Light to medium body and moderate carbonation. Balance is not great. It’s all a bit weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2011
at 13:33
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from Sainsburys Beer Challenge thingy. Gold pour with a white head. Citrus, peach and vanilla aroma. Bitter citrus and herb flavour. Bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2011
at 11:53
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Sainburys, Kidlington, part of the beer challenge range, consumed at home Sun 18th Sept’ 11 Pours gold, good clarity. Its not bad but the hoppiness is sadly a little wayward, light fruitiness, clean tasting its ok. A6 A4 T6 P3 Ov13 3.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2011
at 22:44