More Cans

Had a few cans lately (I did three of them in my last post), so I will carry on doing them, in fact this may take a few posts to do the lot.

Tennent's, Special from Scotland

3.6% pale amber in colour with a thin head, not much aroma and a weak bitter taste, had this one in Scotland on a recent trip and it did for then.

Shepherd Neame (Lidl Hatherwood), Twisted Knots American IPA from England

5.5% amber in colour with a thin head, some grapefruit in the aroma and toffey and malt in the taste.


Shepherd Neame (Lidl Hatherwood), Bitter Iron IPA from England

5.4% dark gold in colour with a thin head, citrus aroma and a hop malt taste.

Brooklyn, Summer Ale from the USA

5.0% gold in colour with a thin head, malty aroma and a slightly sweet hop taste.

I started with the Tennent's which was only ok but it was better than the others.

August 2017

Here are three of the beers I had in August, as usual I am trying to catch up, the holiday in July and the amount of beers I had then have made it harder. These are all follow ups to brewers that I have done before.

Charnwood, IPA from England

 

5.8% amber in colour with a nice head, slight toffee aroma and a bitter hoppy taste.

Richmond, Drummer Boy from England

 

3.8% amber in colour with a thin head, nice bitter aroma it had a strange bitter taste.

Shepherd Neame, Artesian Light Ale from England

 

3.8% gold in colour with a poor head, an ordinary bitter aroma and a bitter taste.

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.

First beers of 2017

Well this year I am going to try and keep up, I do not think I will however. These are some of the new beers I have had up until the end of the second week in January.

I do however hope that the taste of beers improves this year as some of these beers are not that good. I think that the spate of new brewers around the county all seem intent on making very hoppy beers, especially with the use of new hops from America. Even the bigger brewers are doing the same sort of thing and it is not good at all.

Young's (Charles Wells), Special from England

4.5% amber in colour with a good head, some hops and caramel in the aroma and a nice bitter taste.

Samuel Adams, Rebel IPA from USA

 

6.0% gold in colour with a thin head, the aroma and taste are the modern hop and slightly citrus, shame.

Eden Mill, St. Andrews 19th Brew from Scotland

 

3.9% gold in colour with a thin head, the aroma and taste are the modern hop and slightly citrus, yet another one of these beers.

Brains, The Rev James Rye from Wales

 

4.3% amber colour with a nice head, hop aroma, malty taste with some hops but not that bad.

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.