Mid Feb Half Turm

Well we are through to the last part on February and I have only been out once this month (I do mean drinking), it must be the time of year. I have however had quite a few canned beers so I will cover them here.

Young Ralph is up visiting along with Amber though, it is half term, so I have been drinking at home with them. What I have mainly been having is Speckled Hen, an old favorite but also these other cans.

The other big thing is, I got an MOT for the motorhome and it passed first time, it is getting old now about 18 years old. We are off away for a week from the first of March, we are only going to York but that is where I want to be for my birthday. The week after we are off to the Lakes for Dot's birthday but we are going to a log cabin for that week.

So let's get on with the beers.

Modern Times, Orderville IPA from USA

7.2% cloudy gold in colour with a poor head, fruity hoppy aroma and a bitter hop taste.

Modern Times, Fortunate Island Pale Ale from USA

5.0% cloudy deep gold in colour with a good head, hoppy aroma and a bitter hop taste.

Boundary, Biere de Table avec Zeste from Northern Ireland

4.0% hazy amber in colour with a small head, a zesty aroma and a taste of lemon shandy, very poor.

Drygate, Disco Forklift Truck from Scotland

5.1% cold in colour with a poor head, tropical fruit aroma and a fruity taste.

Williams Brothers, Haçienda Pale Ale from Scotland

4.8% gold in colour with a nice head, some citrus in the aroma, the taste is fruity.

Greene King, IPA's

Greene King, the brewer from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, seems to me to make quite a few India Pale Ale's and most are very good. So I will have a look at the Greene King IPA beers that I have tried. I will do them in order of strength with the weakest first.

Greene King, IPA

 

3.6% amber in colour with a thin head, hop aroma, a nice light hop taste and very easy to drink.

Greene King, East Coast IPA

 

4.0% gold colour with a thin head, it was very much like one of the Badgers beers.

Greene King, IPA Gold

 

4.1% gold in colour with a thin head, citrus hop aroma, smooth and mild citrus hop taste.

Greene King, IPA Export

 

5.0% amber in colour but darker than your usual IPA, light hop aroma and it had a hint of toffee in the taste, nice.

Greene King, IPA Reserve

 

5.4% deep amber in colour with a thin head, bit of a hoppy aroma and a nice bitter hop taste.

Greene King, Double Hop Monster IPA

 

7.2 deep gold in colour with a good head, sweet hoppy aroma, it as quite a hoppy taste but not too bad,

Greene King, Very Special India Pale Ale

 

7.5% amber in colour with a thin head, hoppy aroma, strong hop and alcohol taste but not too bad.

There is also this one from Tesco that I have had.

Metropolitan Brewing Co (Greene King for Tesco.), Big Bad Wolf IPA

 

6,0% deep gold in colour with a nice head, citrus hop aroma, dry with some caramel and hops.

Third week in 2017

Here are the beers I had over the third week in 2017 not all new but one that I haven't had since 2008 and its in a new bottle. The other two have names that have been used before, although they are new beers. So I will do something new and show the other, original beers as well

Marston's, Old Empire IPA from England

 

5.7%, pale amber colour with a nice head, fruit aroma, taste is fruity, hoppy and bitter, not too bad. The old photos from 2008 are here.

 

Shepherd Neame, Spitfire Gold from England

 

4.3% deep gold in colour with a poor head, hop aroma but the taste was ok as the hops were not that bad. The original one is below.

Shepherd Neame, Spitfire from England

 

4.5% amber colour with a nice head, hops and malt aroma, malt, hop and fruity flavour, a very smooth refreshing drink, another one I like.

Brains, The Rev James Rye from Wales

 

4.3% amber in colour with a nice head, hop aroma, malty taste with some hops but not too bad. The original one is below.

Brains, The Rev James from Wales

 

4.5% deep amber colour with a good head, sweet malty aroma, malty taste with some fruitiness, I though it was an average cask beer but this bottle was good.

A couple of American IPA's

Over the last couple of weeks I have had a couple of IPA's from the USA, I think that I will give IPA a miss for a few weeks.  By the way, it was not because these beers were from the USA, I am just sick of too much hops.

Anchor Brewing, Anchor IPA from the USA

 

6.5% gold colour with a thin head, a strong beer but with slightly too much hop, shame that.

Shipyard Brewing Company, American IPA from the USA

 

5.0% gold colour with a thin head, hop aroma and taste, time for a rest I think.