IPA (Master Brewer’s Choice)
Shepherd Neame Ltd
- From:
- Shepherd Neame Ltd
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 3.8%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.8 | pDev: 7.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 13, 2015
- Added:
- May 29, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by thommo_nk from Scotland
2.62/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.62/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Not bad for a quid.
Feb 13, 2015
Reviewed by charlatan from Scotland
2.67/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.67/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
99p for 500ml bottle at Lidl. Lower ABV than their ASDA own brand "IPA" which wasn't much cop, so I begin with low expectations. It's a darkish amber colour with a generous slightly offwhite head. The nose is predominantly milky and chalky which doesn't improve my expectations. It's well carbonated and very metallic with slight creaminess and a little biscuity malt in the middle somewhere. It tastes OK and slips down easily, but it's a long way from a mighty IPA: far too little going on here.
Jan 31, 2014
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.12/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev +11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Coming in a 500ml clear bottle, BB 05/2014, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.
A: pours a clear dark golden hue, coming with very lively carbonation in support of a thin layer of loose foamy head with surprisingly good retention.
S: smelling very much like a Shepherd Neame’s paler ales, full of clean, orangey-citric furity hoppiness upfront, backed by very mild nectar-ish sour-sweet and biscuit maltiness. Quite balanced, but also very simplistic.
T: quite effervescent, the slightly buttery, pale-malt-centric foretaste is ensued closely by mildly chewy, zesty orangey hoppiness, quite like the same brewery’s Master Brew in fact. A little dry-ish palate sneaks through, supposedly from the roast malts in the mixture, but not quite bitter in the finish, leaving just some random aroma from pale malts and… very little sign of hop flavour and bitterness, considering the hops are said to be added at three stages in the brewing process(?!).
M&O: light-bodied, the mouthfeel is clean but slightly loose and the carbonation comes simply too lively to my liking; a certain balance is retained on the flavour, but all in all not quite hoppy and definitely not bitter enough to live up to the self-proclaimed style, IPA.
May 29, 2013A: pours a clear dark golden hue, coming with very lively carbonation in support of a thin layer of loose foamy head with surprisingly good retention.
S: smelling very much like a Shepherd Neame’s paler ales, full of clean, orangey-citric furity hoppiness upfront, backed by very mild nectar-ish sour-sweet and biscuit maltiness. Quite balanced, but also very simplistic.
T: quite effervescent, the slightly buttery, pale-malt-centric foretaste is ensued closely by mildly chewy, zesty orangey hoppiness, quite like the same brewery’s Master Brew in fact. A little dry-ish palate sneaks through, supposedly from the roast malts in the mixture, but not quite bitter in the finish, leaving just some random aroma from pale malts and… very little sign of hop flavour and bitterness, considering the hops are said to be added at three stages in the brewing process(?!).
M&O: light-bodied, the mouthfeel is clean but slightly loose and the carbonation comes simply too lively to my liking; a certain balance is retained on the flavour, but all in all not quite hoppy and definitely not bitter enough to live up to the self-proclaimed style, IPA.
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