BrewDog How to Disappear Completely

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Bitter
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Cask in the rake. Alround rating: Massivly fruity nose, mandarin, mango, peach, roasty caramel sweetness, then the hugest bittering hop rush you’ve ever seen. My tongue is still tingling after ah hour!

Cask at the Rake, 9th June 09. 198 IBUs and you know it. The nose is all fresh hops. Taste is even more so. Scorchingly bitter, it feels like you are getting tongue cancer, or being cured of it, and to be frank, you don’t care which! In a previous age, this would have been sold as a cure-all patent medicine. It really does wow you. Rich coppery brown colour. Endless aftertaste, just more and more hoppy bitterness. The initial taste is likely eating fresh hops or even some high quality weed! A hop lover’s dream at a strength you can enjoy for hours - if you don’t mind your palate being annihilated!

In The Rake’s cellar right now, don’t ask for a cellar run! Heathery Hops on the nose with some lychee, initial smoothness on the tongue followed by the extreme hoppy bitterness. THIS IS NOT A MILD ALE! 3.5% abv, beautiful reddish amber look and an awesome beer all round.

A Mes rate: Gravicask cellar run at the Rake thanks to Tom.
Awesome chestnut brown colour with a short lived bubbly white head. Amazing bright assertive hoppage in the aroma. Full of citrus and grassy stuff. So much so, it brings on my hayfever. Fantastic underlying blend of pale and chocolate malt character too. Flavour... shit the bed. This stuff is amazing. The dark coffee malt character comes through really well and it fights with the insane hops for top place. It’s a really good fight. Kinda like watching Abby Clancy mud wrestle with Emma Pierson. It’s a thing of both beauty and extreme, violent excellence. The finish is epic. Rarely do coffee and hops come together quite so well. The aftertaste just goes on and on. Big stinging hops, glorious fresh peaty earth, tangerine, dry roasted beans and burnt toast. Christ on a big sodding bike, it’s a belter. It’s kinda like a Bodacious Black and Tan Lite. But it’s more than that. A top drawer beer there is no doubt. And all this from a scoop that’s 3.5%! Brewdog, I love you.

[RBESG, Sheffield]
Grand Tasting @ The Harlequin, Sheffield.
Pours clear deep golden with a nice, creamy, off-white head. Aroma is sooo hoppy, lots of pine, grassy hops, light pineapple, apricot. Low carbonation, super dry mouthfeel - not thin at all! Super hoppy flavour, very bitter, piney and fruity. The malts are not far behind with some biscuity crispness. Wonderful.

Had it a few days later in Edinburgh, still brilliant. One of the singlemost brilliant session-beers in the world!

Bottle @ RBESG 2009 Grand Tasting. Light amber color. Grapefruit, red berries, cherry sweets and oily hops in the abundant aroma. Flowery and earthy hops banging in in the flavor. Loads and loads of flavor and aroma for such a modest ABV. Maybe a bit thin, but a brilliant beer.

Freakin’ awesome! Totally over-kill hops, but in a cool and extravagant way. I love when things are taken to the extreme and it sure is here. You don’t expect to be hop-burning for hours from a 3,5% brew, but this one sure makes your mouth sore. Well done BrewDog, to me the no. 1 of the Ultralights!

Cask, Newark Fest 09. Copper with a small off-white head. Aromas are nutty initially then very, very hoppy with woody green resinous pine. Some lemon and grapefruit. Flavours are traces of chocolate malts with some herbal notes. Floral with biscuit and toffee. Very, very bitter. Tastes way paste its strength. Bitter, resinous grapefruit on the finish. The best session beer ever made?