My review: From the bottle with best before date 11/10/10 it pours a pale golden straw with a snow white cap. Quite similar to a pineapple soda, but with head. The nose is full of pineapple, mangoes, kiwi fruit, clementines, some backing of grassy and mild pine notes.
This beer is boldly fronted with a lager like cider sweetness, caramel notes, biscuit and quickly followed by a very bitter backbone reminding me of hay barrels and pine. Though, remaining on the sweet side with every initial sip, the lingering bitterness is very pleasant. The mouthfeel shows carbonation to be a little high, it has a nice dry palate with a few residual sugars lingering around. It's pale, crisp, and clean. Very drinkable, and with the exception of the brilliant tropical punk-punch nose, it does resemble the style.
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BrewDog Punk IPA
Tried it for the first time tonight. Liked it, didn't love it. The scent was very fruity, pineapple and candied citrus, whereas the flavour was more herbal/floral hops with maybe a bit of American piney hops. Definitely good for a hop fix and not a bad price, so I'll keep supporting this one while it's around, though it's not an IPA I'm bound to stay with in the long term.
I found an unraided cache of this beer and have been pecking away at the supply a six pack at a time for over a month now. I think it's a very decent and unique IPA because first, it's unfiltered and second they have a very interesting hop mixture (Chinook, Ahtanum, Nelson Sauvin)....particularly the New Zealand Nelson Sauvin add a neat white grape skin flavour...in combination with the other hops you get a mix of tropical fruits, citrus and pineapple as the brew warms. Half the enjoyment of this beer is it's aroma as it warms.
I hope Brewdog offers more brews to LCBO, maybe some of their stronger brews.
I hope Brewdog offers more brews to LCBO, maybe some of their stronger brews.
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pootz wrote:I found an unraided cache of this beer and have been pecking away at the supply a six pack at a time for over a month now. I think it's a very decent and unique IPA because first, it's unfiltered and second they have a very interesting hop mixture (Chinook, Ahtanum, Nelson Sauvin)....particularly the New Zealand Nelson Sauvin add a neat white grape skin flavour...in combination with the other hops you get a mix of tropical fruits, citrus and pineapple as the brew warms. Half the enjoyment of this beer is it's aroma as it warms.
I hope Brewdog offers more brews to LCBO, maybe some of their stronger brews.
is it really unfiltered? This is the palest and clearest IPA I have ever seen.
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Mine was not "clear" it had haze as soon as it was chilled...protein haze I'm thinking.SteelbackGuy wrote:
is it really unfiltered? This is the palest and clearest IPA I have ever seen.
Actually I'm looking at one right now I pulled out of the cold cellar it's 50deg. F maybe....there's significant suspension in this beer....it isn't crystal clear. I suspect they have a decent enough secondary where enough solids drop out of the beer they don't need to filter.
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B+ / 3.95
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | drink: 4
rDev: +9.9%
Deep gold in colour, with the slightest hint of orange showing when held to light. A big, fizzy, white head that sputters away to a solid centimetre cap that sticks around for awhile. The fizz leaves behind a patchy lace. The nose is very hop forward, showing solid notes of pine, tangerine, and flowers. Very perfumey. There's a little bit of bready malt in the background. It tastes much the same as it smells, the citrus and pine are there, maybe a hint of pineapple. Cracker-like malt character. It's very dry, with very little to balance the bitterness of the hops. Light bodied with low carbonation - it feels a bit thin, but still leaves a nice oily texture between sips. I picked up three of these - this is my last one, and I've looked forward to each one after the first. I think I can understand the mixed reviews this one gets, with it's thin body and slight malt character - even so, I still like this. I bet I'd like it even more on the back porch in August. I'd have preferred the LCBO bring something like this in as part of the summer release, rather than the winter.
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | drink: 4
rDev: +9.9%
Deep gold in colour, with the slightest hint of orange showing when held to light. A big, fizzy, white head that sputters away to a solid centimetre cap that sticks around for awhile. The fizz leaves behind a patchy lace. The nose is very hop forward, showing solid notes of pine, tangerine, and flowers. Very perfumey. There's a little bit of bready malt in the background. It tastes much the same as it smells, the citrus and pine are there, maybe a hint of pineapple. Cracker-like malt character. It's very dry, with very little to balance the bitterness of the hops. Light bodied with low carbonation - it feels a bit thin, but still leaves a nice oily texture between sips. I picked up three of these - this is my last one, and I've looked forward to each one after the first. I think I can understand the mixed reviews this one gets, with it's thin body and slight malt character - even so, I still like this. I bet I'd like it even more on the back porch in August. I'd have preferred the LCBO bring something like this in as part of the summer release, rather than the winter.