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BrewDog Hardcore IPA

BrewDog Hardcore IPA - Imperial/Double IPA

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 Percentile 
79
overall
Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial/Double IPA

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
3513.36/5.03.35/5.0Special9%18.3Snifter, Tulip
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ADMIN NOTE: Brewdog have recently changed the recipe for this beer quite significantly. We are currently considering whether this change is sufficiently drastic to warrant a new listing. In the meantime could all raters ensure that they note which version they had in their rating to facilitate a split in due course, should that de deemed necessary. Whether you had the "new" or "old" version can be determined by reference to the batch number and the best before date. The newest batch is 037 and the BBD 03/09/10 (British dating) anything before this date or batch is the old version.

Filtered bottle and sometimes available as a special in the cask.
"Explicit Imperial Ale".
Ingredients: Barley, hops, yeast, water.
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 jredmond (1015), New Jersey, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/516/20
Oct 11, 2009  
Cask @ Chelsea’s Brewing Co. in NYC this past weekend. Pours a hazy orange body woth small white head. Great citrus hop aroma. Good hop flavor.


 SuIIy (1405), Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/102/512/20
Oct 11, 2009  
Batch 004 BBD 07/07/09. Bottle. Pours a clear light orange color with a very small, foamy head with big bubbles that receedes quickly. Nose is light with some stingy harvesty hop notes and some light biscuit notes. Palate is a little thin with a crispness to it. Flavor is the harvesty grainy hop notes with a light malt backbone of mostly biscuity qualities.


 Pyobon (266), Sydney, Australia
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/58/103/515/20
Oct 10, 2009  
Bottle. Clear golden, almost orange, with thin head. Intense hop aroma that is complex and very appealing with hints of stone fruit. Full body with medium carbonation. Intense flavours that commands your full attention. It starts with a complex full fruity mix and metamorphoses into a huge hoppy bitter finish with a hardcore alcohol undrtone with the bitter finish lasting and lasting. An exceptional beer but not one for everyday - really a showpiece of what is possible - a bit extreme really.


 Pwn3d (1036), Manhattan, New York, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 9, 2009  
On cask at the Chelsea brewery cask ale festival. Hoppy and packing som heat. Ok, not really balanced.


funkleshite (8), California, USA
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3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/513/20
Oct 8, 2009  
Pours orange with a small dissipating white head. Guava, pink grapefruit, applejuice, and honey. really too sweet. white lacing like a spider’s web. The floral hops are hidden below the fruit. Not my cup o’ tea.


 wcampbell (567), Central, South Carolina, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Oct 7, 2009  
Not impressed with the Scottish brewers overall. This was way too whimpy, I can’t believe it is 9%. Mild grapefruit hop flavor balanced by some toffee and grainy malts. Not up to American hop standards though. The most boring double IPA I have had so far.


 sm89walt (431), Norwich, Norfolk, England
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Oct 5, 2009  
33cl bottle. Clear, effervescent orange with a fine but frothy, lasting white head, which leaves a greasy lacing. Grapefruit, orange, lemon sherbet, and herbs and spices on the nose. A barrage of resiny, grapefruity hops with orange peel, spice and floral flavours. The bitterness is relentless, almost going as far as reaching back to your tonsils. Endless, almost tongue-numbing bitter finish, medium body, medium carbonation with a crisp yet clinging mouthfeel. Not quite enough maltiness to balance. 156, 23/09/10.


 JoeinUccle (902), Brussels, Belgium
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/514/20
Oct 4, 2009  
Bottle pours golden amber, a bit viscous, with some sparse white bubbles once the initial head fades. Incredibly fruity hop nose, with peaches, pineapple and other tropical fruit, grapefruit, and so on. Initial syrupy sweetness rolls into a firm, ass-whooping bitterness. Tongue-coatingly, resinously bitter aftertaste. Extreme in all the places you’d expect, I guess. A bit more carbonation would help scrub that gunk off my tongue. Fun to smell and taste, though.



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