Cloisters Double Decade All Saints IPA
Stewart Brewing Ltd
- From:
- Stewart Brewing Ltd
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 10, 2015
- Added:
- Sep 10, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.39/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.39/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
BOTTLE: Pretty dear at 25 pounds a 750ml. Brown glass swingtop. Screen print label. Bottle #71/75. Purchased at Cloisters in Edinburgh. This is an exclusive Cloisters beer brewed by Cloisters staff at Stewart. Galaxy hops were used at flame out fir the aroma.
6.80% ABV. Fruit peptin is plainly visible at the bottom of the bottle.
Served cold into Stewart stemware. Expectations are high given the price, cachet, and Cloisters' high reputation.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Around two inches wide. Off-white colour. Creamy consistency, smooth and wet. Nice complexion. Fluffy and full. Retention is rather good - about 8 minutes.
BODY: Hazy murky copper. Not too vibrant... No yeast is visible within, nor is any fruit peptin.
It's a nice albeit typical appearance for an IPA, but I love its lack of filtration, which lends it a lively look.
AROMA: Floral hops, citrus zest, pale malts, cotton candy, caramalt. Seems too sweet for the style, with obvious British leanings. Not too estery....maybe English yeast was used.
Aromatic intensity is average. Suggests a run of the mill IPA with a dull hop profile.
TASTE: Pale malts provide the bulk of the backbone, but caramalts make it too sweet - especially when coupled with the underwhelming cotton candy hop character. Elsewise, the hop profile is mundane...just floral and vague fruit notes. Somewhat imbalanced. The build is just lacking...the choices of hops are decent, the caramalt too heavy.
I do like it for what it is. The indistinct fruit is the star of the show...it's vaguely tropical, suggestive of mango and even guava. And oddly, the more I acclimate to it, the mote balanced it comes across.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium bodied, unrefreshing, aptly thick, a biteen overcarbonated. Not biting, oily, hot, boozy, astringent, gushed, rough, or scratchy.
Doesnt elevate the beer as a whole, but it complements the taste nicely enough. Needs some dialing in.
OVERALL: A drinkable IPA available with some effective fruit flavours and a pleasant flavour profile. Nevertheless, it's far from worth its hefty pricetag and I'd caution others from purchasing it...or any future Cloisters anniversary beer. I'll enjoy finishing the bottle, but it's not particularly special, competently and passionately brewed though it may be.
B- (3.39)
Sep 10, 20156.80% ABV. Fruit peptin is plainly visible at the bottom of the bottle.
Served cold into Stewart stemware. Expectations are high given the price, cachet, and Cloisters' high reputation.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Around two inches wide. Off-white colour. Creamy consistency, smooth and wet. Nice complexion. Fluffy and full. Retention is rather good - about 8 minutes.
BODY: Hazy murky copper. Not too vibrant... No yeast is visible within, nor is any fruit peptin.
It's a nice albeit typical appearance for an IPA, but I love its lack of filtration, which lends it a lively look.
AROMA: Floral hops, citrus zest, pale malts, cotton candy, caramalt. Seems too sweet for the style, with obvious British leanings. Not too estery....maybe English yeast was used.
Aromatic intensity is average. Suggests a run of the mill IPA with a dull hop profile.
TASTE: Pale malts provide the bulk of the backbone, but caramalts make it too sweet - especially when coupled with the underwhelming cotton candy hop character. Elsewise, the hop profile is mundane...just floral and vague fruit notes. Somewhat imbalanced. The build is just lacking...the choices of hops are decent, the caramalt too heavy.
I do like it for what it is. The indistinct fruit is the star of the show...it's vaguely tropical, suggestive of mango and even guava. And oddly, the more I acclimate to it, the mote balanced it comes across.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium bodied, unrefreshing, aptly thick, a biteen overcarbonated. Not biting, oily, hot, boozy, astringent, gushed, rough, or scratchy.
Doesnt elevate the beer as a whole, but it complements the taste nicely enough. Needs some dialing in.
OVERALL: A drinkable IPA available with some effective fruit flavours and a pleasant flavour profile. Nevertheless, it's far from worth its hefty pricetag and I'd caution others from purchasing it...or any future Cloisters anniversary beer. I'll enjoy finishing the bottle, but it's not particularly special, competently and passionately brewed though it may be.
B- (3.39)
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