Owd Grumpy
Leatherbritches Brewery

Tasted by a half-pint at the Evening Star, Brighton. Served by a handpump w/o a sparkler.

A: clear and bright amber or dark golden in colour, coming with a faintly bubbly foam on top of rather low carbonation.
S: sweet and sour floral nectar on a par with sticky juicy grapefruity hops, with an earthy and hayish edge underneath. Quite mixed in the hop mixture with seemingly 50-50 percent of US-English hops.
T: lots of bitter-sweet, rich lychees (on skins), sweet white grapefruits, and flower cordial abound... full and delicious in hoppyness on top of settled maltiness; bitterness quickly follows the initial taste and is coupled with a deepening tannic hoppyness, that makes a 3-D structure and a long-lasting bitterness that cuts deep down the palate, causing a very dry aftertaste, almost like that of chewing real grapefruit peels!!
M&D: very soft in fizziness, full-bodied w/o smacking of being overly heavy. A lovely golden bitter with a predominant US hop profile in aroma (maybe in dry-hopping) and English hops (like Challenger) in heavy bitterness. Overall, this is a really tasty hoppy treat designed to quaff~~