Bleddyn 1075
The Celt Experience

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From:
The Celt Experience
 
Wales, United Kingdom
Style:
English IPA
ABV:
5.6%
Score:
85
Avg:
3.77 | pDev: 13.79%
Reviews:
25
Ratings:
48
Status:
Retired
Rated:
May 27, 2023
Added:
Jun 02, 2011
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  7
A commanding IPA balancing bitterness, sweetness and a grapefruit finish. An IPA to preside with you and your friends at the dinner table. King Bleddyn, most merciful of all Welsh kings. Lived and ruled until 1075 and the number of our original gravity.
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Ratings by Cylinsier:
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Reviewed by Cylinsier from Pennsylvania

3.95/5  rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Bottle

Pours nearly clear deep gold, slightly yellowish head retains as a thick lacing well.

Smells of bready malts, light pine hops, and hints of caramel.

Tastes of rich caramel barley malt with some light pine hop bite and honey sweetness. A bit of bitter citrus as well.

Medium body with light carbonation.

Tasty and drinkable, good flavor balance, but not especially unique. Definitely worth trying, though. Don't think I will remember it very well in the long run, but I will enjoy drinking it.
Aug 09, 2012
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

3.8/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Aug. 2011: 500 ml bottle, from SuperBest Hjørring. ABV is 5.6%. Deep golden colour, moderate white head. Moderate but nice aroma of fruity hops, hints of orange marmalade, also notes of caramel and toffee. The flavour is medium sweet, notes of caramel and bitter orange marmalade again, plenty of grapefruity and piney hops, ending in a solid bitterness which is surprisingly sharp and distinct for a Welsh ale.
May 27, 2023
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Reviewed by vinicole from England

3.64/5  rDev -3.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pale orange. Some haze and with far too much effervescence giving a very thick head.
Lemon sherbet aroma. Grass.
Earthy flavour with an ever growing bitterness. Citrus fruit dominates a distant malt taste.
Decent feel.
May 20, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by user785335 from Florida

Oct 22, 2015
 
Rated: 3.95 by risenz from England

Oct 19, 2015
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Reviewed by Altrurian from Portugal

4.1/5  rDev +8.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pleasantly cloudy body, capped with an outstanding, fluffy, long-lasting head. World-class cling. Good cascading head formation. Substantial citrus flavor (for a relatively light-ABV IPA). Pretty rich mouthfeel. Had it from a bottle at the UK Pavilion at Expo 2015.
Jul 28, 2015
 
Rated: 4.4 by djura from Serbia

Jul 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.42 by Jerseyislandbeer from Jersey

Apr 14, 2015
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Reviewed by stcules from Italy

3.87/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
A very clean copper appearance, with one finger of beautiful off-white foam.
In the smell a lot of english hop, tea notes, lightly citrussy, maybe a hint of gooseberry.
In the taste the hop dominates, on a godd malty and biscuity base. Beautiful earthly notes, too.
Average body, long and hoppy aftertaste, grassy and earthly.
Good and interesting, aggressive bitterness, but well balanced.
Mar 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.93 by AlexRea from Russian Federation

Dec 28, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by the_kenosha_kid from Ireland

Dec 09, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by vanderSchorpioen from Russian Federation

Dec 04, 2014
 
Rated: 4.25 by stephenlee from England

Oct 19, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by dcmchew from Romania

Sep 15, 2014
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Reviewed by Dentist666 from Russian Federation

3.74/5  rDev -0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured into english pint.
Slightly hazy, amber-golden beer, greenish hue, with 2-finger smooth head. Smell of citrus, pine, pale malts, somewhat bready, all that we love in IPAs. Taste is excellent, refreshing, grapefruit, strong medicinal bitterness. Medium body, good carbonation. Robust, masculine beer, probably, a bit unbalanced between malt body and hop profile.
Aug 09, 2014
 
Rated: 3.25 by lelepat from Hong Kong

Aug 01, 2014
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Reviewed by Jetulio from Spain

3.49/5  rDev -7.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
500 ml. bottle poured into a Pint glass

Appearance... Orange hazy  beer with foamy head colour white of 2 fingers aprox(lasting a two mm film)

Aroma...   malt and herbs, cereals and fruits.  herbal aroma predominance

Taste... Some malty notes and then hop , touch of bitterness and dry lasting in mouth all the time.

Mouthfeel... medium/full body and soft carbonation

Overall... a very recomendable pale ale, not so brilliant as Bronze from same brewery, in my opinion.
Jul 19, 2014
 
Rated: 4.5 by BrickOneal from South Carolina

Jun 30, 2014
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England

4.04/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Coming in a 500ml brown bottle, BB 04/06/2015, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass. Notes: 57 IBUs, using US, NZ, UK hops.

A: pours a bright, light golden colour, coming with a thin off-white head to last and gentle carbonation.
S: sweet flowery, peachy, citric and lychee-ish fruitiness abound upfront, backed by semi-sweet and biscuity malts with a gentle whiff of acidity vividly felt in the midst of the other more assertive elements.
T: bitter-sweet, the foretaste goes immediately flowery, grapefruity, sprigy and zesty hoppy with plentiful fruity notes to boot; gradually the bitterness catches up to render a fairly deep and yet chewy and dry aftertaste. Through out the drink, a pleasant edge of acidity is never far away, while the maltiness comes with enough weight as the backbone without interfering with the major hoppy theme, much more in line with an American take on the style than what I’d relate to an English IPA.
M&O: the carbonation level remains light and refreshing, the body is medium-plus but leaving no trace of alc. whatsoever. All in all, this is a strong hoppy ale that is as quietly exciting to the taste buds as inviting as a balanced session beer.
May 16, 2014
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Reviewed by charlatan from Scotland

3.62/5  rDev -4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Half pint at Wetherspoons on Greenock. Gold to amber colour with a typical 'spoons head. A sweet nose with some honey and pink grapefruit. I found very little citrus in the taste though. It had a thick syrupy feel and the first sip started sweetly but after that surprisingly big hops dominated, with a really strong leafy hop flavour lingering on the tongue in an oily finish. Very bold for an English IPA so I actually found it to be a sipper. I very much liked it, but I took it slowly.
May 07, 2014
Bleddyn 1075 from The Celt Experience
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 48 ratings