Tommann (7637) reviewed Imperious IPA from Mad Hatter Brewing Co 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Pours a hazy dark orange with a medium head. Aroma is sweet, floral and pineapple. Taste has pineapple to start with a strong floral finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
330ml bottle from Beermoth. By the strength of this and the Pannetone it seems Mad Hatter pretty much has the Tripel style nailed. Extremely rich full flavoured blend, perhaps a little syrupy, but still among the best UK attempts at the style. Struggled to taste the truffles which was a shame, but still a very enjoyable beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 1
Bottle: Gusher. Nose is Belgian yeast a little playdo(?), celler, dust, nothing of the panettone in the nose. Taste is caramel, dough, yeast a little honey, strange dry note in the after taste. Nothing like a panettone at all. A passable triple but no more. Edit. By half way, the flat playdo Taste dominates. This is actively unpleasant. Drain pour.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle from Beermoth. Great, full-tasting tripel, ever so slightly creamy and a touch more sweetness than its Belgian coutnerparts. Really tried to pick up some saffron or in fact any additional spiciness at all but alas couldn’t help feeling a little disappointed. Nevertheless, a nice tripel.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle. Pours a hazy orange red with a medium head. Aroma is slightly sour, woody dark fruits. Taste is slightly sour, lots of dark berries. Burnt bitter piney hop finish.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Hop Hideout, Sheffield. Hazy, golden colour. Creamy, thick, persistent, white head. Big, boozy, bready, spicy (clove?) aroma. Crystallised fruit. Saffron definitely in there too. Taste is barley sugar sweet. Dried citrus and vinous fruit dryness brings up the rear. Palate is big bodied, but fresh. This beer is big, but not daft. Good stuff.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Imperious IPA from Mad Hatter Brewing Co 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines, Birmingham. Poured a cloudy medium amber with a thin white head with broken white lace. The aroma is big grassy aromatic hop and zesty citrus fruit. The flavour is medium to strong bitter with a big liqourice bitter alcoholic malt mint spice hop palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation and a long bitter finish. A super DIPA.
Big fruit and IBU'S from @cotteridgewines
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; dark chestnut pour with a tinge of red, big beige bubbly head, big fruity aroma mostly of the stoned variety, fruity taste plums, cherries, a hint of caramel some background yeast notes, quite bitter seems quite high on the IBU’S, overall an excellent Belgian interpretation.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed American Psycho from Mad Hatter Brewing Co 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Cotteridge Wines, Birmingham. Poured a hazy dark amber with a big frothy off white head. The aroma is big yeast weak citrus fruit and a touch medicinal. The flavour is strong bitter with a boozy yeast palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation. A brown ale? More like a Belgian ale to be honest. I think the yeast was from there.