Pink Elephant
Hampshire Brewery Ltd
- From:
- Hampshire Brewery Ltd
- England, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.62 | pDev: 8.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 04, 2009
- Added:
- Jun 22, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.93/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Purchased at the Salisbury farmer's market in September 2008, bottle-conditioned in a 500ml brown bottle; BB 16/08/09, served cool in a straight imperial pint glass. The ingredients, besides malt, water and yeast, include Flaked maize, Red grapes(!), Northern Brewer, First Gold and Golding hops.
A: interestingly, even given a careful opening of the cap, the beer still elegantly "builds up" (not "storms in") in my glass a humongously HUGE (taking up 80% space of the glass) and superbly lasting frothy white head, sustained by abundant input of tiny fizz... dark golden to light amber in colour - you don't say, this is supposedly a fruit-beer brewed with "red grapes"??
S: an enticing Taiwanese Aiyu-jelly like herbal-sweet edge (sometimes also from Riesling grapes) and boiled white yum comes with cane-sugary pale malts and a (guess what?) "winey" note through the thick froth like a breeze~~ As the frothy head gradually breaks, the aroma gives more hints of hops, in the form of lightly sour sweet citrus and more herbal hints from Golding and Northern Brewer hops. Integrated, but not complex enough and slightly sweet for the balance.
T: a rather interesting tinge of Hampshire Brewery's unique lightly peated/phenolic yeasty edge comes hand in hand with sugar-cane-ish maltiness, then the utterly dry herbal aftertaste catches up, unleashing an extremely dry palate with a very decent level of bitterness to round up the palate. Also lingering are the remnant elements of the faintly citric and herbal hops, but only just. Yeastiness seems to leave a deep imprint on the overall performance, just like it does to the other Hampshire ales I've tasted, but in this case it's not so intrusive and seems to mingle well with other ingredients, including the mysteriously mild-flavoured "red grapes"...
M&D: despite the look (highly fizzy), the palate is surprisingly soft and smooth, providing refreshing streams of microscopic fizz where needed. Can't say this is a successful "fruit" beer/ale as, really, the grapes leave very little trace in the whole aroma/flavour profile and surely the colour?! But in terms of the bottle-conditioning quality and the integrity b/w yeast, malts and hops, this one surely is the BEST from all Hampshire RAIBs I've tasted!
Feb 04, 2009A: interestingly, even given a careful opening of the cap, the beer still elegantly "builds up" (not "storms in") in my glass a humongously HUGE (taking up 80% space of the glass) and superbly lasting frothy white head, sustained by abundant input of tiny fizz... dark golden to light amber in colour - you don't say, this is supposedly a fruit-beer brewed with "red grapes"??
S: an enticing Taiwanese Aiyu-jelly like herbal-sweet edge (sometimes also from Riesling grapes) and boiled white yum comes with cane-sugary pale malts and a (guess what?) "winey" note through the thick froth like a breeze~~ As the frothy head gradually breaks, the aroma gives more hints of hops, in the form of lightly sour sweet citrus and more herbal hints from Golding and Northern Brewer hops. Integrated, but not complex enough and slightly sweet for the balance.
T: a rather interesting tinge of Hampshire Brewery's unique lightly peated/phenolic yeasty edge comes hand in hand with sugar-cane-ish maltiness, then the utterly dry herbal aftertaste catches up, unleashing an extremely dry palate with a very decent level of bitterness to round up the palate. Also lingering are the remnant elements of the faintly citric and herbal hops, but only just. Yeastiness seems to leave a deep imprint on the overall performance, just like it does to the other Hampshire ales I've tasted, but in this case it's not so intrusive and seems to mingle well with other ingredients, including the mysteriously mild-flavoured "red grapes"...
M&D: despite the look (highly fizzy), the palate is surprisingly soft and smooth, providing refreshing streams of microscopic fizz where needed. Can't say this is a successful "fruit" beer/ale as, really, the grapes leave very little trace in the whole aroma/flavour profile and surely the colour?! But in terms of the bottle-conditioning quality and the integrity b/w yeast, malts and hops, this one surely is the BEST from all Hampshire RAIBs I've tasted!
Reviewed by GreenCard from France
3.32/5 rDev -8.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.32/5 rDev -8.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Appearance: light brown-orange slight haze, good layer of white frothy foam, good head retention
Aroma: malty, toasty; hint of caramel; hint of grapes (though it's not really obvious)
Flavor: malt sweetness with a slight fruity edge; leafy hop flavor and fairly prominent bitterness; finishes dryish with a throaty grape-seed bitterness
Mouthfeel: medium-light body, light carbonation, slight mineral taste, fairly refreshing
Other comments: Red grapes?! Where? If it didn't state it on the label, I wouldn't have picked that out.
Jun 22, 2008Aroma: malty, toasty; hint of caramel; hint of grapes (though it's not really obvious)
Flavor: malt sweetness with a slight fruity edge; leafy hop flavor and fairly prominent bitterness; finishes dryish with a throaty grape-seed bitterness
Mouthfeel: medium-light body, light carbonation, slight mineral taste, fairly refreshing
Other comments: Red grapes?! Where? If it didn't state it on the label, I wouldn't have picked that out.
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