Thunderbolt
Hampshire Brewery Ltd
- From:
- Hampshire Brewery Ltd
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- English Bitter
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 08, 2006
- Added:
- Feb 08, 2006
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
3/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Bottle-conditioned, coming in 500ml brown bottle. BBE 09/06/06. Served cool in a pint-sized goblet.
A: pours a light amber, reddish-orange hue, coming with a fast-effervescent off-white head, going rocky and spongey, slowly dissipating and sinking into the beer... The carbonation is fierce, a bit like a soda esp. in the first 30 seconds~~
S: pineapple-ish and piney yeasty note dominates the nose, on top of a mixed fruitiness of orangey-citrus+apple-flavouring, lightly candyish note and chewy pale malts with a touch of nuttiness~~ Also at present in the background is a flow of Fuggles-like hoppyness.
T: the nutty flavour of pale malts hits the palate, but fluffy-textured and pretty yeasty... a sour edge from the yeastiness and lemony-citrus fruits gradually comes through, turning more nutty-bitter at the back of the palate, with more hops to play with in the finish.
M&D: the problem with this bottle-conditioned beer is the same as that with almost all other bottled beers by Hampshire that I've tasted, that the yeast condition is not at all settled and easily destroys the balance on the palate and texture. It ends up overly light and surprisingly fizzy on the mouthfeel, like a canned-coke or soda, while the yeasty edge steals the stage, leaving other more pleasant flavours struggling to stand out... If it's available anytime soon on cask, I'd love to try it, but this bottle-conditioned version is not very impressive.
Feb 08, 2006A: pours a light amber, reddish-orange hue, coming with a fast-effervescent off-white head, going rocky and spongey, slowly dissipating and sinking into the beer... The carbonation is fierce, a bit like a soda esp. in the first 30 seconds~~
S: pineapple-ish and piney yeasty note dominates the nose, on top of a mixed fruitiness of orangey-citrus+apple-flavouring, lightly candyish note and chewy pale malts with a touch of nuttiness~~ Also at present in the background is a flow of Fuggles-like hoppyness.
T: the nutty flavour of pale malts hits the palate, but fluffy-textured and pretty yeasty... a sour edge from the yeastiness and lemony-citrus fruits gradually comes through, turning more nutty-bitter at the back of the palate, with more hops to play with in the finish.
M&D: the problem with this bottle-conditioned beer is the same as that with almost all other bottled beers by Hampshire that I've tasted, that the yeast condition is not at all settled and easily destroys the balance on the palate and texture. It ends up overly light and surprisingly fizzy on the mouthfeel, like a canned-coke or soda, while the yeasty edge steals the stage, leaving other more pleasant flavours struggling to stand out... If it's available anytime soon on cask, I'd love to try it, but this bottle-conditioned version is not very impressive.
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