BrewDog Hardcore IPA 3.35 385

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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Ratings	Average	Score	Seasonal	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
385	3.36/5.0	3.35/5.0	Special	9%	19.2	Snifter, 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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johntreeter (122), Greenwood, Indiana, USA

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	6/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

May 19, 2008

22oz. bottle. Pours a hazy gold color with a one finger head that diminished quickly. Light aromas of fresh bread, alcohol, and light hints of citris and banana. Tastes of stong alcohol and citris with a sweet begining and a very bitter finish. Medium to heavy on the palate with a creamy feeling on the mouth and good carbonation. For me, this beer would be greatly improved with less hops at the begining of the boil and more at the end to bring out more hop flavor and aroma. Overall a very good beer, but for the price I would not buy again.

JaBier (1284), Capital City, Ohio, USA

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	7/10	4/5	6/10	4/5	13/20

Jan 11, 2009 Updated: Aug 5, 2009

Bottle. Cloudy copper pour with a huge white head. Somewhat hoppy nose, but the malt, yeast and butter dominate. Hoppy flavor with a sweet malt balance, some pepper and a buttery finish. Not bad, but would have preferred for the hops to be more pronounced.

finol (528), Nacka (Stockholm), Sweden

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	7/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

Jan 25, 2009

Bottle from Brewdog web shop. Citrusy aroma. Hops and butter tasting. I shared the bottle and it was enough since it got kind of repeating.

madmitch76 (645), , Essex, England

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	6/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	13/20

Oct 19, 2009

1st April 2008 Intense hoppy beer, bucketloads of hopspiness. Slightly oily palate. Grapefruit and other bitter fruits. Very bitter finish.

forsides (87), union, New Jersey, USA

3.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.4	6/10	3/5	8/10	3/5	14/20

Aug 30, 2009

orange amber colored with a small head. nose is light, sweet, some toffee notes. taste is bigger with decent hop bitterness, and piney, resiny, slightly fruity aftertaste. light mouth feel.

Darkover (1317), Columbus, Ohio, USA

3.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.3	6/10	3/5	7/10	4/5	13/20

Apr 18, 2008

Golden color with a white head. Aroma of weak citrus hops and a little alcohol. Flavor is pretty sweet and malty and the finish is very bitter and hoppy. Different but not in a good way.

omhper (12299), Stockholm, Sweden

3.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.3	8/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	12/20

Aug 30, 2007

Bottled at Blackfriars, Glasgow. Pale amber. Heavy grapefruit aroma. Sweet malt dried out by severe amounts of sweaty grapefruity hops. Dense and caramelly with notes of gooseberries. Resiny very bitter finish. A but aggresive and on the sweet side.

ogivlado (3095), Zagreb, Croatia

3.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.3	6/10	3/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

Oct 25, 2009

Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of and shared with Doggythedog (thanks!). Batch No. 220
Clear golden coloured, small white head, honeyish nose with traces of alcohol. Sweet malty, bitter hoppy and strong alcoholic with notes of citrus and grapefruit. Expected much better beer.

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