Today's beer comes at me room temperature. My glamorous assistant neglected to put a beer in the fridge last night because she was drunk. And then neglected to do it this morning because she was late.
You just can't get the help.
I'm not really complaining. I usually drink this beer chilled and there's a bit extra in the flavour from being room temp. I shall chill it less from now on.
Brewdog - Punk IPA
What a beer. Brewdog are solely responsible for my beer-snobbishness, and this is the beer which started it all.
I'd always been interested in trying different beers at festivals and the like, but nothing like this.
Below is a slightly stylised image of the mantelpiece in the flat - loads of different beers, from IPA's with different hops, IPA's from the sea, experimental hop-less ales, low alcohol IPA's (that still kick arse), stouts & porters, scotch ales, red ales, black lagers, barrel aged lagers - the list goes on. I love it.
Anyway...
Looks - Looks a little hazy, but is light amber in colour. Some good head retention and lacing down as it goes down the glass.
Smells - Terrific. Grapefruit, pine, deep citrus smells.
Taste - Fruit and pine flavours start, a fantastic hoppy body with a (new!) honey sweet yet mild bitterness.
I have my criticisms of Brewdog, and as a shareholder I'm entitled to them - this beer is not one of the things I could criticise.
10/10
I wrote this blog whilst listening to Mumford and Sons. I feel a little bad for listening to M&S, folk is a genre with such an extensive catalogue, not just comtemporaries either. I used to play the banjo, and listen to a few folk acts now and then - but I've always just found them myself. I'm sure there are better or more deserving folk acts out there, I just haven't found them. Listening to M&S seems like a lazy way to enjoy folk music. I still like it though...
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