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Bottle, courtesy darkguardian. Pours a clear, dark, golden-red amber color with a small, frothy, bubbly head of khaki foam. Broken sheets of wet lacing mark the glass. The aroma is massively hopped for such a small beer, notes of grapefruit and dank, fresh grass shows atop a very soft malt base of toasted bread and toffee malt. Hints of pine resin lend further hoppy aromatics. Flavors are again very crisp and hoppy, showing ultra dank notes of freshly cut grass, mild citrus, and pine. The toffee malt seems a little buttery, which I’m pretty neutral to. Medium-light in body, with moderate carbonation and a semi-dry, biting, peppery hop finish, each sip begs the next. It’s highly sessionable stuff, and quite flavorful for a 3.5% beer, but it falls short of other low-ABV efforts such as Surly’s Bitter Brewer and Alpine’s Tuatara.

From the Bottle at RBESG Harlequin, Sheffield 19/07/2009 Big hoppy aroma. Bronze golden coloured and hoppy with a pine fruit flavour. Crisp and very bitter malt finish.

Bottle, 12 fl. oz. Pours a clear dark golden beer with a big offwhite head. The aroma is hops with notes of caramel. The flavor is hops. The palate is bitter and a little thin, but stays in the mouth. Overall a good and interesting beer.

From Vinens Verden, Odense, DK. Bottled, 201009. Amber with white head. Aroma of grapefruit and spices. Flavor is hop bitter but with less malt presence

Bottle @ pre-GBBF shindig, August 2009. Very hoppy, very bitter, not very well balanced. Seems like more of a gimmick than anything else. Sure, it proves that you can make a low ABV beer with massive aroma and flavour. But it is really just one aroma, one flavour and one dimension. Very harsh and aggressive mouthfeel too. If you like drinking hop juice you will love this but, although there are some interesting and appealing elements, I didn’t really enjoy this too much and couldn’t see myself supping a whole pint. I seem to recall finding this more palatable from cask but I can’t find my notes.

Bottle… Clear amber ale with a small, creamy, white head. Musky, resiny nose of skull-burning, earthy and funky hops - sweaty socks come to mind. Light-bodied with an astringent mouthfeel and lively carbonation. Bitter and a touch acrid. Thin, but that’s to be expected. Crisp, mostly bitter finish. Kudos to darkguardian for sharing the bottle!

12oz. A bitter that is actually bitter! Nose is super crazy hoppy, very much like an IPA with big citrus and pine notes. Flavor is all bitterness and lovely hop flavor. Tangerine and grapefruit with some resin figure in the most. A cereal like graininess is the only hint of malt but at 3.5% who can complain. Amazingly done.

12 oz. bottle - thanks clint!! ymmm, pickles; oh wait, should I rinse out that previous sour? clear copper with faint white head; sharp, bitter hops are musky and grainy; drinks straight up bitter and mildly harsh; radiohead rules and the brewdog boys are confirmed crazy :)