BrewDog The Physics

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Amber Ale
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

330 ml bottle from Bieropholie, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. JA23/09.

App.: Clear amber with a loose, rocky light tan froth. Aroma: Strong earthy caramel, slightly funky, some burnt sugar, other assorted malt aromas. Palate: Medium body, fairly sparse and soft carbonation. Flav.: Caramel that is much less earthy, more fruity, still very malty with a touch of peppery, resinous hops; off-dry with some bitterness.

Straight forward, drinkable.

660 ml, bb 08/08/09. Hazy orange-copper with a small ring of bubbles. Aroma is toast, earthy tea leaf and caramel with some muted orange and oak. Flavor is orange-caramel and biscuit, toned down with some salty oak and earthy leaf. Near-medium body is hardly carbonated, watery-thin, and well-dried by the salt and wood flavors.

Name: Physics
Date: October 19, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Green’s, Atlanta
Appearance: clear copper, fine beige head, bits of drippy lace
Aroma: sweet caramel malt aroma with lots of earthy character, touch of breadyness
Flavor: lots of earthy hop flavor, lots of caramel malt but the earthyness keeps it dry, lingering bitter finish
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Bottled, 330ml from Bellingers Garage, Grove, Oxon. Red amber with white head. Probably pretty accurate to style, but heavily sharply malted beer, biscuity, caramel malts, some pinewood with just a hint of tangy citrus in the finish. Toasty notes throughout the beer, a style that I struggle to love, but made drinkable in this case.

Appearance: Pours a clear, orangey-amber body (like a cup of tea) with a small, bubbly, white head. Smell: Toasty malts strike the nostrils with a hint or three or caramel candy. Notes of bitter orange peel, stone fruit, and fresh cedar planks (which rounds out in the herbal character of the taste). Taste: Toasted, biscuity maltiness with a fair amount of sugary caramel sweetness. Fairly fruity, too, tasting of apricots with just a touch of orangey citrus. Spicy, particularly herbal hops (again, like a cup of tea) with a restrained bitterness. The sweet toasty malts eventually drop out right at the end for a relatively dry finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium-low carbonation. Drinkability: A soft, easily drinkable, just barely hop-forward brew that, as I snatched it up for $1.49 a bottle, served me well on a Friday night.

660ml bottle, Batch 001, best before 01/06/09. Slightly hazy, copper/amber color. Thin rocky white head. Looks like homebrew. Fruity aroma of golden raisins, caramel malt, and light citron zest. Flavor is very biscuity, carmel malt. Finishes watery with a lingering, very dry bitterness. Very basic in body, not bad. Sessionable. Cheers

Bottle, 5%. Weak caramelly aroma. Clear amber colour. Very small head. The flavour starts off with a slightly rough bitterness, turns caramelly and then back to bitter. There is a touch of spicy hops in the finish.

Bottle (330ml). Shared by blankboy with me and garthicus. Clear light amber with a smallish white head. Dry, slightly alcoholic, leafy - bitter. Taste - generic bitterness (like hop oil) - weak malt profile, mostly just bitterness - but I kind of like that - not a wimpy amber that’s for sure. Average body, incredibly astringent, long, long bitter finish. A tad unbalanced (hah - massively unbalanced) - but a real treat.