India Pale Ale
Harvey's Brewery

500 ml bottle, from Seven Cellars. ABV is 3.5%. Clear copper colour, moderate white head. Moderate but nice aroma of malts, toffee and a faint hint of dark berries. Light bodied as expected, but not too bad for its low ABV. The flavour is mid between dry and sweet, and has the same elements as the aroma, also some nutty hints, with moderate but noticeable earthy hops in the finish. A decent ordinary bitter, but certainly no IPA.

This is a reasonable if somewhat unexceptional English bitter: caramel coloured with negligible carbonation; an understated, malty nose; earthy flavours; light bitterness; and somewhat watery mouthfeel. Goodness knows why, at only 3.5% ABV, it calls itself an IPA.

 

 

Once agian a ridiculously low ABV, and very thin and watery, hops are noticable, but they don't exactly excite your tongue, lucky the Harveys bottles are slightly smaller, coz i was really getting sick of this towards the end.