Cerana Beverages, Bira, India

It was only after I bought these that I discovered that they were from India, what was even more surprising was that that were not bad at all.

Cerana Beverages, Bira 91 Blond Beer from India

 

4.5% gold in colour with a good head, slight malt aroma and a nice mild not too fizzy taste.

Cerana Beverages, Bira 91 White from India

 

4.7% cloudy yellow in colour with a good head, some orange in the aroma and a nice slightly bitter taste.

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.

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.