What beer are we drinking this week ?

No Beuno, I'm sipping a Dungavran Coffee and Oatmeal Stout post dindins, tis yummy.

Ended up waiting for tonight to crack open this bad boy.
My thoughts.

First off, the appearance, it's it's extremely clear and very pale, which I guess makes sense seeing as it's majority english pale ale malt and a minority caramalt.

Hop wise they have the "3 C's" of American style IPA's in Cascade, Centenniel and Columbus and a fair dose of Simcoe to back them up.

On the nose you have all those citrusy and grassy notes you'd expect and a little sweetness. It's not a super powerful nose to be honest, but what is there is lovely.

Mouth feel is thin and a decent prickly carbonation, lacks the body of a truly great american IPA like an Odell or a Dogfish Head 60 minute, but it's not what I'd call watery either.

As for taste. The first thing I got was a big citrus bang, somewhere between a good tart marmalade and a grapefruit segment, and with the choice of hops, that's exactly what you'd expect. A little tropical fruit as it progresses, and then a nice bitter piney finish, the malts are just about enough to balance the beer but you don't really get any flavours discernible from them, they are just vaguely "sweet".


All in all, a pretty good beer not in my top 5 IPA's, but wouldn't be far off.

Would be a perfect hot day IPA, and at 6.6% abv, it's not going to blow they head off you but it's not exactly session beer either!









Disclaimer: I am a little bunged up at the minute, will try this again in a few weeks, odds are I'm missing out on a lot of flavours and aromas at the minute.