Three Lions
Real Ale Brewing Company

RB transfer

Poured from a bomber into a snifter
Appearance – The beer pours a lightly hazed orange-yellow color with a one finger head of white foam. The head as a modest retention, fading to leave a bit of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma of the brew is big of tropical fruit sweetness of tangerine, mango and papaya. Along with these smells comes some notes of a grapefruit and herbal hop smell as well as a touch of a grass.
Taste – While the nose was tropical fruit heavy, the taste was surprisingly not. Instead the taste began with a rather strong cracker malt taste that had a decent showing of grapefruit hop mixed within. Along with these tastes comes some flavors of pine and herb as well as a little bit of caramel sweetness. As the taste advances to the end some light tropical fruit flavors that were detected in the nose finally come to the tongue, and with a little bit of a lemon taste one is left with a somewhat dank but smooth taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the medium side in terms of thickness and creaminess with a carbonation level that is rather average as well. For the danker hopped taste and the more substantial abv the feel is quite nice and makes for a slow, but easy sipper.
Overall – A rather tasty IPA that isn’t super tropical fruit and citrus heavy. This is more my style and one I will certainly come back to more often.

On tap at the brewery. Golden color with white head. Smells of grapefruit. Medium feel. Tropical fruit flavors with some earthy pine resin. A good mix of hop flavors.

 

Smooth, not heavy, the lemon only comes through minimally for me, which I love. Nice kick. I return to this regularly as we are uncommonly blessed in Austin, Texas with many fine beers from Real Ale and others.

It like having a lemon tang squeezed in your beer

 

First time today with Three Lions. 22 oz bomber from HEB. Head is as big as you pour it. Nice lacing as it goes down. Unsurprising yellow body. Decent but not outstanding, piney with some lemon. Actually not bad at $5.99. Thanks Real Ale. Big fan.

 

 

 

A tasty, easy drinking double IPA. Refreshing and dangerously drinkable.

 

 

 

 

Three Lions manages to hit the trifecta of having a great price point (>$5.00 for a bomber), solid taste (this coming from someone who’s not an IPA fan), and respectable abv (8.0%). I can walk out of my local Kroger with one of these and a sixer of Hamm’s or PBR tallboys for just over $10, so it’s become my go-to casual craft beer. I can’t tell you about appearance, aroma, or head lacing, as I’m a philistine who drinks it straight from the bottle, but I can tell you about the taste. Being brewed with three varieties of hops (Simcoe, Amarillo, and Lemondrop), I initially expected this to be a bitter, resin-y clusterfuck. Surprise surprise, this is actually an incredibly well balanced Imperial IPA. Lemon hops and pine hit the palate first, but just when you’re thinking it will get bitter, there is a hint of pepper, followed by some sweet, bready malt, with just a hint of bitterness on the finish. Very nice. I’m sure the quadruple IPA hophead freaks won appreciate Three Lions, but the rest of us will.

Review originally posted at: http://mortuussonos.blogspot.com/