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BrewDog Hardcore IPA 3.35 381

BrewDog Hardcore IPA

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

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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3813.36/5.03.35/5.0Special9%19.2Snifter, 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. Newer batches will probably appear before we have this sorted out.

Filtered bottle and sometimes available as a special in the cask.
"Explicit Imperial Ale".
Ingredients: Barley, hops, yeast, water.
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 Suttree (2740), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Jul 25, 2009  
From a cask at Pub Naples, Naples, Florida. Copper orange, thin white head. Nice smoky, bitter citrusy aroma. Very hoppy up front, with an earthy, smoky background. Clean hop bite, but a long aftertaste. Very tasty stuff.


 michael-pollack (2723), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Jul 13, 2008  
660ml Bottle: Aroma of hops, grass, toffee, and grapefruit. Poured amber in color with a large, creamy, foamy, rocky, off-white head that lasted throughout. Hazy. Very sparkling. Excellent lacing. Flavor is lightly sweet and light to medium bitter. Tastes of hops, grass, toffee, butter, cream, and Ringwoood yeast. Medium body. Syrupy, chalky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Grassy, creamy finish.


 IrishBoy (2719), Bakersfield, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/510/20
May 3, 2008    Updated: May 4, 2008
660 ml bottle brought over by my Aberdeen friend, Bjorn! Batch 001 BB 03/03/09; Nose of light flowery hops, and sweet lightly buttered carrots; carrot juice orange with a small yellow head; flavor of hop bitterness, some sweetness in the fairly thick body, and a diacetyl note; not horribly strong but noticeable. Kind of like the Punk IPA.


 Storm (2685), Amager, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Nov 19, 2007  
33 cl bottle. No yeast at the bottom. Clear golden colour with a little head. Hoppy nose with hints of grapefruit, and citrus. Also flavour of grapefruit, citrus, peach and alcohol. Not a very amarican style IIPA, need a lot of caramel. But not bad anyway.


 notalush (2683), Denver, Colorado, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Jun 27, 2009  
Best before 2/2/10 - pours a lightly hazy gold with a soapy lace - earthy, kind of sweaty aroma, with some notes of apricot, grapefruit, some crackery malt - moderate carbonation, medium body - starts rather sweet and sugary, but a rather dry bitterness squashes this pretty fast - a really strong grapefruit pith flavor borderlines on unpleasant after a while - ends dry, almost flinty, and strongly bitter - it ain’t bad, just a little out of balance.


 nick76 (2678), Tampa, Florida, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Nov 11, 2009  
The aroma is very hoppy with pineapple, citrus, and caramel malt. The appearance is golden with an amber hue. The flavor is like the aroma but astringent. The palate is average for the style. Overall this is actually a pretty average imperial IPA.


 PilsnerPeter (2642), Flushing, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/512/20
Aug 17, 2009  
Bottle: Hazy orange with a dense off white film. Sweet cookieish malt aroma with apparent caramel, dough, and some mild pine & grapefuit. Slick with mild carbonation- cask-like feel. Sugary and citric flavor upfront- lots of caramel & honeyish maltose with a cookie like character throughout followed by a grapefruit and late long piny finish. A bit in-cohesive and sugary in it’s sugary fore and that abrupt piny bitterness. Eh.


 downender (2629), Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 2, 2009  
Bottle from Corks, Bristol (batch 220). Orange with next to no head and moderate carbonation. Sweet, corny and orange aroma with a touch of pine. Sweet malt and pine needle aroma with a finish more caramel than hoppy, with some burning alcohol in the finish. Disjointed.



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