The King’s Shipment IPA
Compass Brewery
- From:
- Compass Brewery
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.12 | pDev: 10.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 02, 2015
- Added:
- Nov 06, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by vinicole from England
3/5 rDev -3.8%
3/5 rDev -3.8%
Hazy orange. Frothy head that lasts less than 30 seconds.
Candied fruit and hops aroma.
Malt and hops clash rather than meld. Grassy notes.
Good carbonation that you would expect from a bottle conditioned beer.
I expected better from a small brewery like this.
Oct 23, 2014Candied fruit and hops aroma.
Malt and hops clash rather than meld. Grassy notes.
Good carbonation that you would expect from a bottle conditioned beer.
I expected better from a small brewery like this.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
2.78/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.78/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Purchased in “The Deli” (just an off-license shop, really) in Oxford, coming in a slim 500ml brown bottle; BB 08/2012, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass.
A: pours a dark yellow golden hue, coming with a rather loose and short-lived foamy head plus sparse carbonation.
S: sickening sweet syrupy malts abound, reminding of cane sugar syrup even, plus some random notes of grassiness and sour prunes. Not very pleasant to be honest and definitely unbalanced or clearly featured.
T: the flavour is sweet tea like, with some bits and bobs of burned sugar, licorice, faint orangey notes, and hays/straws (not that I’ve tasted hays…), leaving a little grassy hop bitterness, undertone of white dates and more plain sweetness behind. Altogether the beer’s bitterness and hoppiness levels are really way too subdued to merit the self-acclaimed classification as an IPA… Plus, a lack of aftertaste and of an overall clear feature in flavour does not help, either.
M&D: the mouthfeel is generally soft, yet at times too flat vis-à-vis the above average-sweetness in flavour. This medium-bodied, possibly pasteurised, “IPA” is quite easy-drinking, but lacks all important features for this beer type, as far as this bottle is concerned. Maybe the cask version might change my impression…?
Nov 06, 2011A: pours a dark yellow golden hue, coming with a rather loose and short-lived foamy head plus sparse carbonation.
S: sickening sweet syrupy malts abound, reminding of cane sugar syrup even, plus some random notes of grassiness and sour prunes. Not very pleasant to be honest and definitely unbalanced or clearly featured.
T: the flavour is sweet tea like, with some bits and bobs of burned sugar, licorice, faint orangey notes, and hays/straws (not that I’ve tasted hays…), leaving a little grassy hop bitterness, undertone of white dates and more plain sweetness behind. Altogether the beer’s bitterness and hoppiness levels are really way too subdued to merit the self-acclaimed classification as an IPA… Plus, a lack of aftertaste and of an overall clear feature in flavour does not help, either.
M&D: the mouthfeel is generally soft, yet at times too flat vis-à-vis the above average-sweetness in flavour. This medium-bodied, possibly pasteurised, “IPA” is quite easy-drinking, but lacks all important features for this beer type, as far as this bottle is concerned. Maybe the cask version might change my impression…?
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