7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Eltham Wines. Almost black pour with a beige head. Nose is dark roast coffee, liquorice toffee, dark chocolate, raisin. Taste is dark chocolate, dark roast coffee, creme caramel, vanilla, more liquorice toffee. Long alcohol burn. Sweet malty finish.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Dec 2020
at 20:26
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can at home, from HOTM online, 25/12/20. Murky orange with a well presented lasting off white head. Nose is pine resin, weed, raw pineapple, grapefruit, citric pith, light booze tunes. Taste comprises bitter sweet tropical fruits, pine resin, weed, hop spice, light dextrose tickle, grapefruit, raw mango. Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation, semi drying close splashed with lightly aggressive juicy hop bitterness and a balanced rising boost. Solid high boost hoppage ... drinks fine for double digits. Great bitterness piercing throughout ... never got to sweet or gloopy unlike some contemporaries.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Dec 2020
at 17:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can at home, from HOTM online, 23/12/20. Black pour with a well presented khaki cap. Nose is pine needle, liquorice, light spice, toffee crisp, red berry fruits, dusty hops. Taste comprises pine needle, cola cubes, bitter roast, light charr, sweet malts, more liquorice, Beena Berries, faint minerality, cocoa sprinkle. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close spiked with lightly resinous come dusty hop bitterness and a light spike of alcohol. Solid boosty CDA ... Pentrich come up trumps with higher digit hops once more !
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2020
at 20:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can picked up from Hoptimism website Loughborough Leicestershire UK. Consumed at home Wednesday 23rd December 2020 listening to Craig Charles standing in for Steve Lamaq on 6 Music, we had Mexican Meatballs for tea tonight. Pours dark, very murky actually very dark brown, light beige head. Drinks easier than 9%, far easier. really soft mouthfeel, this is not my choice of style but it's good.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Dec 2020
at 19:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can picked up from Hoptimism website, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK. Consumed at home Monday 21st December 2020 listening to The Many - The Many, in the company of Xenofon and Anastasia and Itchy the cat, we had Chicken schnitzel and homemade chips for tea and homemade Lemon curd ice cream. Pours black with a creamy head. Roasted malt and coffee dominate the aroma. This is super smooth, nice mouthfeel, a little creamy, smokiness showing but along with the coffee, roasted maltiness and a little burnt edge there is an avalanche of liquorice. This is really good, a really nice smoked porter.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Dec 2020
at 03:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can picked up from Hoptimism website, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK. Consumed at home Monday 21st December 2020 listening to Craig Charles on 6Music standing in for Steve Lamaqs show, making Pork Pies. Murky yellow with a white head, a fury of hops really kicks in, in fact it is so hoppy your tongue is momentarily numbed. Nice soft mouthfeel, it's an appropriate name :-( good beer though.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2020
at 18:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can picked up from Hoptimism website, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK. Consumed at home Monday 21st December 2020 listening to Craig Charles on 6Music standing in for Steve Lamaqs show, making Pork Pies. Hazy amber with a white head this is a big punchy DIPA, lots of fruit here, tropical fruit, a soft mouthfeel, juicy mango, a hoppiness buzzing throughout. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2020
at 17:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can picked up from Hoptimism website, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK. Consumed at home Sunday 20th December 2020 listening to Daniel Blumberg - On & On. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Juicy and fruity but really, really good. Mostly tropical with mango, papaya and a little pineapple but there is a streak of sweet orange. Good beer.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Dec 2020
at 02:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can picked up from Hoptimism website, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK. Consumed at home Sunday 20th December 2020 listening to 2020 Label Compilation -A Strangely Isolated Place. Pours light amber with a white head, citrussy, bitter good dry finish and a little pithy. Very nice beer and nice to see a more typical IPA rather than a juicebomb.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Dec 2020
at 17:12
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can picked up from Hoptimism website Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK and consumed at home Saturday 19th December 2020 listening to Radcliffe and Maconie (this morning's show, via listen again) making Pork Pie, Loz is making Brandy Snaps. Pours murky dirty grubby yellowy colour with a white head. Getting dusty hop from the off, nice softness in the mouth, juicy and even a little bitterness cutting through, not sure about the dustiness though, tropical flourish adds to an interesting if rather puzzling beer.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2020
at 17:58