8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle from Firma-Bier
Bottled 18.12.2015 - Pours golden orange with a thick foamy head. Aroma of wet dank hops, juicy tropical fruits, citrus, pine, some musty notes, hints of caramel and resin. Taste is juicy, hoppy and tropical fruity with some chewy pine, citrus, grass and grapefruit. Finish is crisp, fresh hoppy and juicy fruity with some chewy pine, grass, citrus and grapefruit. Quite tasty.
Bottled 18.12.2015 - Pours golden orange with a thick foamy head. Aroma of wet dank hops, juicy tropical fruits, citrus, pine, some musty notes, hints of caramel and resin. Taste is juicy, hoppy and tropical fruity with some chewy pine, citrus, grass and grapefruit. Finish is crisp, fresh hoppy and juicy fruity with some chewy pine, grass, citrus and grapefruit. Quite tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2016
at 11:15
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle @ Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours clear brown with medium off-white head. Aroma is caramel and a mild bubblegum sweetness. Taste is toast, nutty malt and dried fruit hop with a touch of pine. Good, complex brown ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2016
at 15:38
9.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
330ml bottle @ Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours hazy gold with large white head. Aroma is tantalising tropical fruit. Taste is smooth with a startlingly vibrant tropical fruit character that just doesn’t let up from beginning to end. Effortlessly drinkable for the ABV with an incredible balance of flavours.. pineapple, peach, mango, lime, tangerine and everything inbetween. It’s hard to imagine any future IPA topping this. Ridiculously good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2016
at 15:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
75cl bottle @ Chez Sophie, Shrewsbury. Pours black with creamy mocha head. Aroma is a big peated whisky hit with roasted malt. Taste brings alcohol warmth before complex cocoa, roast and dark malts come through. Peat comes back on the finish alongside some nutty chocolate flavours. Pretty intense stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2016
at 15:15
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Hazy, dark brown to black colored, small+ beige creamy head, nice lacing, not too lasting. Aroma is of chocolate, roasted malt, bit dark fruits, coconut and vanilla, lemony hoppy also. Taste is medium sweet malt, chocolate, roasted coffee and bitter chocolate, vanilla, coconut, custardy, medium dry bitter chocolate-hoppy finish, alcohol well hidden. Medium+ bodied, soft carbonation, creamy. (bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2016
at 14:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home in London - picked up at Kris Wines. Pours crystal clear yellow-gold, effervescent, with a frothy, pure white head. Lots of biscuity pale malts in the nose, with hints of hay, cereal and lemon rind. Light sweet flavor with more prominent biscuits, hints of sourdough bread, grassy bitterness, more rindy citrus. Light bodied with average carbonation. Nicely balanced on the finish, with more crisp biscuits, dried cereal, pale grains, grass, rind. A very good all around lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2016
at 13:54
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Bottle at home in London - picked up at Kris Wines. Pours mostly clear orange-gold with a thick, frothy white head. The aroma really bursts out of this one, with loads of dank hops, ripe orange, tangerine, mango, papaya, cat pee, melon, undertones of pale bread. Medium sweet flavour with obscenely vibrant, juicy hop character, lots more citrus fruits, tangerine, mango, sturdy pale bread, melon, low bitterness, hints of pine. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Lightly resinous on the finish, warming, with continuing fresh, robust hop character, more tropical fruits, more citrus. Outrageously drinkable. While the beer is 8%, it goes down incredibly easily; only in the aftertaste do you start to feel some of the strength, as the alcohol warms you up. The hop expression here is mesmerising. This is a world-class IPA. Simply stunning.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jan 2016
at 18:59
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home in London - picked up at Kris Wines. Pours clear, light brown with a frothy off-white head. Pleasant toasted biscuit aroma, with hints of caramel, orange, brown bread. Medium sweet flavor with more biscuits, simple bread, faint cocoa, moderate juicy citrus hops, orange, light tangerine. Light bodied with average carbonation. Nicely balanced in the finish, with further toasty biscuits, citrus hops, very faint licorice, some toasted pine, mild grass, earth, touches of rindy orange, more tangerine, dry caramel. Really well balanced overall, nice depth of character (especially considering the relatively low ABV). I could bury a few pints of this sauce. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2016
at 18:01
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Draught at Bottle Shop Druid St, Bermondsey, London 28 Nov 2015) Hazy golden colour with frothy, white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of citrus, apricots and orange peel. Malty, fruity taste with citrus, grapefruit, lemon peel, grainy malt, hints of yeast and a dry finish with a balanced citric bitterness. Medium body, mainly dry. Tasty and well made, with a generous hop character and spicy hints of yeast. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2016
at 16:06
8/10
Last tick of last night. I was destroyed by then but enjoyed it immensely.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2016
at 13:17