Super 8-bit IPA
Fuggles Beer

Fuggles & Warlock 'Super 8-bit IPA' @ 7.3% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6.50
A-pour is gold from the bottle to a amber in the glass with a large off-white head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-8 hops (Caliente , Ariana , Lemondrop , Azacca , Nelson Sauvin , Cashmere , Vic Secret , Falconers Flight)
T-decent malt , lots of hops , slight bitter finish
MF-ok carbonation , feels full bodied
Ov-ok beer
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650ml bottle, @ 7% ABV - I knew that these guys were geeky, but I gotta respect this new level - early 1980s era gaming console 'goodness' is the theme here, it would appear, i.e. 8 different exotic and lesser so hops being employed.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, medium copper amber colour, with three skinny (we all can dream) fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some random archipelago lace around the glass as it evenly recedes.

It smells of gritty and grainy pale malt, mixed tropical fruit (ok, maybe a bit of pineapple core and Asian pear standing out), a twinge of musty yeast, some subtle stoney mineral essences, free-range berry sugars, and plain leafy, weedy, and dank piney green hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, bready caramel malt, a hint of biscuity toffee, more juicy pineapple, guava, and blood orange fruitiness, a touch of that flinty hard water thing, and yeah, a not so small dose of the ol' piney, weedy, herbal, and floral hoppiness, yo!

The bubbles are quite thorough, but via a gentle and almost coddling frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, with some of that octet of hops caring too much about fucking things up right about now, so, well, yeah! It finishes off-dry, in a dance to the death between the lingering bready malt and still complex (complicated?) hop bitterness.

So, my junior and high school self could surely never have imagined something like this in the beer world of the time (my dad's Olympia didn't exactly resonate with my 10+ year-old self, as the titular tech did). Overall, a pleasant, and well-wrought New World IPA, the big and worldly hops complementing the base malt in a respectable manner. Game on, gamers, game on!

 

7% abv, 68 ibu, 650ml bottle.
A - orange amber with one finger head, little hazy, lacing head.
S - tangerine, mango, peach, pineapple, tropical fruit, guava, berry, lychee, lemon, grapefruit, floral, mineral, leafy, earthy, dank as warm up abit.
T - moderate carbonation, medium body. like orange juice, sweet, little tartness, complex. bitterness comes out at the back, as well as the maltiness, to balance, lingering hoppy lasting.
O - really delicious ipa! great for summer. F&W once again nail it! i remember that the 2014 8-bit was more cloudy and funky. this one is another aspect of greatness! recommended and i'll get it again!