Aussie IPA
Morrissey Fox / Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn

Brown 500ml bottle, best before 11th Feb 2011, drank and reviewed 24th Jan 2011. Poured slowly into a UK pint sleeve.

I've just put together a 'flat-pack' bookcase, God how I hate trying to follow those crap instructions and diagrams: what should be a 20 minute job took me almost 2 hours, I need a refreshing beer, I hope this will be it.

Looks fine, a nice pale/light amber body with a small but well formed white head of foam.

Summer orchard floral smell, fruity and semi-sweet in an apple and pear sort of way (not that it smells like a cider). Add some biscuity, baked maltiness into the mix and you have a different, but interesting aroma from the glass. This isn't a very hoppy IPA at all, in smell or taste.

The flavours more or less follow the smells, fruity, semi-sweet and not a lot of hop content coming through. 'Only full flower hops' are used, according to the rear label, which is maybe why the floral feel runs through the review and tasting so much.

I prefer the slightly sweeter brews, so this fitted my taste buds pretty well, suprised no one else has reviewed it yet, it's available in a lot of the bigger supermarkets around the UK.

Easy to drink and it calmed me down well after my long encounter with the bookcase.

I'd certainly have another if I had one.