 SilkTork (3794), Rochester, Kent, England
May 4, 2008 Updated: Jul 13, 2008
May, 2008Gravity at Rochester Sweeps Festival. Nice lychees wizz with a sweet pale malt. A low abv APA - nicely done, but a little boring these days. [3]
July 2008JDW, Rochester Typical Roosters citric nip. The usual watered down APA. In this one the base malt is a little weak, and the whole thing is not sitting comfortably. It’s nice, but it’s not fully pulling together. What was nice is that I got a second pint free because my breakfast was late in arriving! [2.6]
Fin (2026), Merton, Oxfordshire, England
Jul 22, 2008 Cask, gravity dispense at Merton Summer Beer Festival July 18th and 19th 2008 Pours light golden in colour with white head. I struggled to find the rather fanciful aromas in this beer but when sniffing like a police sniffer dog at Colombian customs I did just get some gooseberry otherwise I found it just non descript fruity aroma. The flavour was fruity some hops and also a nice citrus edge a little tangy and really quite nice.
Doppelganger (1086), Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Jul 21, 2008 Gravity, at the excellent Merton summer festival. Pale gold, frothy white head. Tomcat and gooseberry aroma with a fresh grapeskin edge. The sauvingon blanc aroma comparison in the brewer’s notes is not really that much of a stretch. Really interesting musky quality to the flavor, flinty with a light clean malt, simple enough to let the distinctive hops shine through. The rating for this suffers a little in that as much as this was a really fun new sort of hop aroma to experience, I don’t think I’d want hop breeding to push this way as the next big thing.
imdownthepub (3960), Banbury, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, England
Jul 21, 2008 Cask conditioned at Merton Summer B.F ’08. Greenish Gold with white head. A beer I had really been looking forward to, I found it to be quite yeasty and perfumed in character, stand out hops on a lightish base, but not quite to the extent you expect from this brewery. Still not bad though.
Mungo (2474), Southampton, Hampshire, England
Jul 11, 2008 Cask conditioned @ Giddy Bridge (JDW), Soton. Excellent tropical fruit aroma like one of those posh fruit salads with passionfruits, kiwi, mango etc rounded off with some fresh citrussy bite. Just enough malt sweetness to add a bit of body but doesnt interfere with the fresh fruitiness, tangy zesty bitterness but not overpowering. Very quaffable with good length in the mouth and pretty moreish.
Crunchie (26), Somerset, England
Jul 10, 2008 With a couple of weeks maturation and a minimal amount of venting, this beer is stunning when first on. The description they give (as with all their beers) is spot on with the addition of grapefruit and some really firm malt. More of the same I’ve heard. Well there are similarities to most of their beers, of course - pale and hugely aromatic beer is something of a forte. The actual fruit flavours that derive from different uses of different hops is wonderful and sometimes subtle, sometimes bold. This has a big finish and the variety of fruits work very well together. Not good though if not looked after. As per. Really balanced bitterness that adds to the mouthwatering character, the aromatic fruits just lead on perfectly to the palate.
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