Prime Matter
Newbarns Brewery in Leith, Midlothian, Scotland 🏴
Collab with: Burnt Mill BreweryIPA - Cold Special
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Score
7.45
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Our biggest IPA to date, hopped generously with Citra and Mosaic. Expect a clean, crisp, hoppy and bitter beer. Waaay too easy to drink.
This is the fourth beer we’ve brewed in collaboration with Burnt Mill, and each beer has been a homage to another that inspired us to do what we’re doing.
Prime Matter is our lager based homage to some of the OG beers of the American North East. Those beers you drink for the first time and wonder how the heck they’re producing such magic. This cold IPA is dank and hoppy but light and moreish. It’s so incredibly balanced, yet a little spicy at 7%. There’s no hop burn or hop fatigue after having one. It’s just perfect.
This is the fourth beer we’ve brewed in collaboration with Burnt Mill, and each beer has been a homage to another that inspired us to do what we’re doing.
Prime Matter is our lager based homage to some of the OG beers of the American North East. Those beers you drink for the first time and wonder how the heck they’re producing such magic. This cold IPA is dank and hoppy but light and moreish. It’s so incredibly balanced, yet a little spicy at 7%. There’s no hop burn or hop fatigue after having one. It’s just perfect.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can from Appellation Wines. Pours clear golden with a thick, persistent white head. Aromas of bread, lemon and fresh sweat. Taste is more lemon and bready malt. Clean finish.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2026
at 10:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from an unknown location. It pours pretty clear yellow - gold with a small fluffy white head. The aroma is fresh, quite clean, grapefruit, green, weedy, dank, gooseberry, white grape and straw. The taste is crisp, dry, snappy, clean, pleasing green bitterness, weedy, dank, herbal, peppery spice, grapefruit rind, pomelo, waxy peel, gooseberry, white grape and a nip of alcohol. Average body and fine, prickly carbonation. Like a low key cold IPA version of Heady. Tasty and moreish.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jul 2025
at 17:32
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
From tap at Salt Horse, Edinburgh. Dry and dank with grassy and weedy notes, some white grape, citrus, gooseberries, some lemon, zest. Moderate to medium bitter, finishes dry.
Tried
from Draft
at
Salt Horse Beer Bar
on 03 Jul 2025
at 22:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Great stuff. Nice piney character, decent bitterness, sun-kissed pale malts, a little biscuit, white grape, lemon rind, grapefruit. Balanced overall. Very tasty.
Tried
from Can
from
Clapton Craft
on 21 Jun 2025
at 21:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
440ml can. Clear pale gold, white head. Aroma of grapefruit, pine, slightly tropical, berries. Taste of grapefruit, lemon, pine, light hop spice, mango and light berry fruits, moderate bitterness. Medium bodied, crisp, clean. Lovely.
Tried
from Can
from Trembling Madness Online Shop
on 12 Jun 2025
at 20:42
7.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Can from Against The Grain. Pale golden body with a very faint haze and a thin white head. Steady carbonation. Patchy lacing. Aroma of lemon, spearmint and pine. Flavour of grapefruit and lemon. Medium body with a slick texture. Light fizz. Ooft, this IPA isn’t messing about; it’s bold and bitter. This tastes like an IPA from the time of the IBU wars.
Tried
from Can
on 16 May 2025
at 11:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Appellation Wines.
Appearance - golden and clear with steady carbonation and a nicely proportioned white head.
Nose - lemon, fresh sweat and brown bread.
Taste - lemon, bread and lemon zest.
Palate - light bodied, fresh finish.
Overall - good.
Appearance - golden and clear with steady carbonation and a nicely proportioned white head.
Nose - lemon, fresh sweat and brown bread.
Taste - lemon, bread and lemon zest.
Palate - light bodied, fresh finish.
Overall - good.
Tried
from Can
from
Appellation Wines (Comely Bank)
on 03 May 2025
at 19:12