Enigma Pale Ale
Eight Degrees Brewing

 

 

Peppery and spicy but enjoyable

Poured from a 330ml bottle. Pale straw colour with a decent head and good lazy. Aroma is citrus pine and sweet hops. Taste is peppery, spicy, pineapple. Very pleasant. Quite bitter but very refreshing. Feel is just about right. Overall this is another fantastic beer from Eight Degrees. This with Hurricane are two of the finest beers out there and these guys have really built on their original offerings to become about the best beer producers in Ireland. Fantastic beer

 

On draught at Irish Beer and Whiskey Festival '15, RDS, Dublin.
Hazy brass with white film. 3.75
Peach, mango, passion fruit nose - yum. 4
White peach then pink grapefruit, guava, big herbal grass, and white pine hops. 4.25
Rindy end and long bitter linger.
Halfway to medium, low fizz, some oil. 3.75

Eponymous new hop is a Swiss Tettnang descendent, and there is some grass. But this is all about big Southern Hemisphere fruit notes, backed by some surprisingly stern IBUs. Balanced, novel, and hoppy as all get out. 4.25

Bottle gives plenty of lychee, peppery spice, and pomelo rind, and again, way over 54 IBUs.