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BrewDog Hardcore IPA

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

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
3623.36/5.03.35/5.0Special9%18.9Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
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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 Birdiebeagle (783), Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Oct 18, 2009  
Bottle Pours a hazy gold with a good froathy white head. The head lasts well and makes spotty lacing. Has a sweeter aroma than hoppy. Slight hops. Has a good carbonation. The flavor is decent. More hoppy than I would expect. Has a sweet hoppiness. The texture is resiny. Has a medium body. The finish is decent and a sweet hoppy aftertaste.


 johndoughty (2156), cheslyn hay, West Midlands, England
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/58/105/515/20
Oct 18, 2009  
Bottle new batch. Golden and clear.Hops are clearly present but don’t take over as in some other brews of this style.Quite bitter with some fruitiness.Full bodied as you would expect.This brewery can do no wrong as far as I am concerned.


 MAP (1089), Lakewood, Ohio, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/102/512/20
Oct 16, 2009  
Bottle purchased at Friendly Mini-Mart in Lakewood. Pour is a gentle, near-headless golden orange, with slight haziness. The aroma is rather sweet, and less from bitter notes. A slight hint of ginger is covered by a strong orange-ish scent. I’m not totally sold on the flavor and mouthfeel combo. The flavor is a little too grassy and rought, and the texture is just kind of chalky. Not horrible, but I don’t expect to reach for a second bottle anytime soon.


 jredmond (1029), 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 (1435), 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 (271), 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 (1054), 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 (10), California, USA
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.



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