BrewDog How to Disappear Completely

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Bitter
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Thanks to Darkguardian for sharing this one! Man this beer is awesome. Its so hoppy for a low alcohol beer. I’d say this might be the perfect session beer, but its so hoppy I’m not sure how much of it could drink!! Great beer!

Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Orange-amber colour. Heavy powerfull hopy aroma. Heavy bitter very harsh flavor. Long harsh bitter finish. watery palate. Way too unbalanced to be good, but a nice experiment.

12 oz bottle courtesy darkguardian. Pours a mostly clear golden amber color topped by a small, bubbly off white head of foam. The aroma is really hoppy for such a small beer showing notes of bitter citrus, fresh grass, and pine hop resin all atop a malt base of toffee and toasted bread. The flavor follows the same lines with the bitter grapefruit, fresh cut grass, and piney hops all adding nice bitterness. The toffee malt seems to sweeten things up a bit. Pretty light in the body with balanced carbonation leading to a dry, spicy hop finish. This is one highly sessionable small beer that packs plenty of hop flavor.

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.

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.