Greene King Hop (Formerly The Beer To Dine For)

Brewed by Greene King
Style: Pale Lager
Bury St. Edmunds, England

Name: The Beer to Dine For
Date: 07/17/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

clear gold, whispy white head, a unknown species of skunk sprayed into the clear bottle to give it a robust aroma to cover up the sweet malt and floral hops that can be roused upon request, sweet candy flavor with light but tasty (Tettnang) hops, light bitter finish

Aroma: 2/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.5/5.0
Drinkability: 3/10
Score: 4

750ml Bottle 04/03/2007 Some carbonation. Hoppy aroma. Clear golden coloured hoppy and slightly spicy. Smooth on the palate. A little dryness in a crisp malt finish.

Bottle from my trip through South Carolina. The aroma has some hops but mostly pale malt. The appearance is pale gold with a smaller head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall it’s rather unremarkable and not much of a beer by itself.

Not quite what I was hoping for. its got a mostly malt presence with very little hop aroma and taste. It taste clean yet has very little character.

Bottle pours golden with a short white head that stays briefly and leaves a bit of lace. Aromas of slight malts, some grassy hops a bit of skunk. Flavor is grain, a slight bit of citrus and some grass. A fair amount of carbonation gives this a fizzy mouthfeel. Fancy bottle.. Not so fancy of a beer. Kind of crappy actually

Comes in a bottle that looks like a butt plug, so my expectations weren’t very high. Pours a glowing golden colour, with faint citrus and flower aromas. Despite the name it delivered a disappointing hop bitterness that was short-lived. Rather thin, and I can’t help feeling GK wimped out a bit on the IBUs with this one. If you’re going to call a beer hops, then make damn sure it tastes of hops!

Bottle under name of The Beer To Dine For. I expected a pretty light tasting beer, and thats exactly what I got. Poured a pale yellow with a quicky disapating white frothy head. Taste was very light malts and some citrus. not much else. Rather boring to me. But I have yet to find an English Ale I enjoy, so It might just be a style I dont care for. Perfectly drinkable on a hot day, we had with pork and it went well, just rather boring to me.

Exceptionally clear yellowish gold with a slick of white suds. Nose-wrinklingly metallic aroma. Smells like lager. Grassy and watery. Very tame and antiseptic-tasting on top of a Ridgeway Blue. Not half as hoppy. Would be completely demolished by food that was remotely spicy, despite the blurb. And yet a gently citrussy bitterness, boozy graininess and bready aftertaste that reminds me of a sweetish strong Belgian ale. Maybe Duvel or Maredsous. Or Piraat. OK, but nothing like as pungently hoppy as hoped for.