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.

More Saturday Beers

After we had eaten we had another couple of new beers, first we had an Ilkley, Ilkley Best, England.
4.0% gold colour with a thin head, aroma and taste is hops, lots of hops, if you like your beer hoppy I think you will love this one (more of an IPA than a bitter to me).



The next beer was a Greene King, IPA Export, England and it tasted less like an IPA than the previous beer, but don't get me wrong it was good though.
5.0% darker than your usual IPA and it had a hint of toffee in the taste, nice.



We also had a Leffe and another old one that I can not remember for some reason.