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unch all in all a great intro to ipa for someone used to rounder ales bamberg smoked bock 6 0 a lovely optical illusion of a beer bamberg s glossy haze and moderate head mean that its artful smokiness catches you completely by surprise this is an autumnal beer its colours are the glowing reds rubies oranges and ambers of hearths and bonfire embers which is appropriate because on the nose this reveals waves and billows of smoke courtesy of its 100 beechwood smoked malt at once complex lapsang souchong smoky and tea like the underlying boozy sweetness nods towards peaty islay whisky and spicy rum the smokiness largely dissipates in your mouth to leave a deliciously complex aniseed with subtle impressions of smoky ham and cheese and a full bodied burnt toffee ish malt the rich harvest festival flavours linger the legacy of the whisky notes emerge as a long warmth while the aniseed becomes cloves and the burnt sugar orangey caramel it s almost christmas like a great cold weather beer to enjoy with fireworks and toffee apples tzara köln style beer 4 8 crystal clear with just a hint of straw gold against strong light this beer glows like a chardonnay and pours exactly like a beer that emulates cologne s famous top fermented lagered beer should the head white ghostly and soft dissipates quickly but its subtle appearance belies a powerful nose which is fruity and grassy without being too perfumed those fruit aromas carry through to the palate where an initial sweetness outlasts fairly heavy carbonation and gives way to pear drops it s a little too sweet for the style cologne s best kölsch is so balanced and subtle that its sweetness dissipates like a crisp dry white wine whereas thornbridge s offering lingers to a honeyed mead y finish with a touch of hay but ice cold this is still a crisp dry beer that would work beautifully paired with fish or white meat halcyon imperial ipa 7 4 gloriously lazily hazy and honey coloured thornbridge s double ipa is a dangerously well balanced strong beer for hop addicts it might just be too balanced with the gloriously vivid hops that should shine through an iipa somewhat watered down perhaps by the malt but for everyone else the ripe pungent lychee aroma promises and delivers all the citrus kick you could want it s woody and fruity on the nose with hints of wild flowers and an underlying complicated savouriness those fruits overwhelm the palate but the lushness of the mango melon and papaya lingers well there s some bitter hop oil left on the palate afterwards but with a lovely astringency that s citrusy and palate cleansing dangerously un cloying and drinkable for a beer that s lurching cheerfully towards 8 this entry was posted in uncategorized on 27 10 2015 by icipints alternative altbier anspach and hobday s oktoberfest range leave a reply by liz dodd oktoberfest the smell of smokey sausages hangs in the air people with lederhosen compare altbier and rauchbier meanwhile a few metres away double decker buses roar up and down upper street the annual german beer celebration is observed slightly differently in islington as we discovered earlier this month at local craft pub the hop and berry less dancing on tables more ironic dominoes on table here local well bermondsey based brewers anspach and hobday are launching their six strong range of german style beers it s just in time for oktoberfest and good news for anyone disappointed by the sudden closure of london s official oktoberfest allegedly due to inadequate staffing the brewery admits it s taken some liberties we ve bastardised some of it admits paul anspach who true to his germanic heritage is wearing lederhosen in germany oktoberfest is a family festival we haven t got helter skelter he points out accurately he and jack hobday tell us they relished the chance to brew the six beers a rauchbier a hefeweizen a bavarian ipa an altbier a berliner weiss and a golden rachbier it s nice to make the classic styles it was like going back to the recipe book jack explains i dove straight in with the 7 per cent golden rauch it had been a tough week alright it s savoury and smokey like a rauch should be and lifted by its hazy floral nose its cousin the straight rauchbier had the same caramell y smoke with rolling coffee notes on to the hefeweizen which is creamy herbal and deliciously smooth cut its vanilla banana wheat notes by with the berliner weiss a gloriously sour refreshing fizz with groves of tropical fruit we finish with the bavarian ipa which is hoppy bitter and very drinkable and the altbier which glows an amber red and tastes of smoke and toast a great autumnal beer and a great way to dip a toe into the great german tradition with just a couple of kegs of each left it s worth sorting a trip to the anspach and hobday brewery tap as soon as possible some of the most popular like the hefe alt and rauch might appear again as keg specials this entry was posted in beer and culture festivals events and tagged beer beer festival beer tasting on 12 10 2015 by icipints hair of the dog what we learned at brewdog s 2015 punkagm leave a reply it s been just over a week since brewdog s 2015 agm the hop haze has finally lifted my ears have stopped ringing and i can be in a room with alcohol again note not all mine the ubiquitous craft beer company s agm isn t your average agm as i explained to my photographer will when he asked if this was a tie and chinos or a jeans kind of event back in 2010 the company started trading b shares in an effort to raise capital its investors were by and large craft beer fans drawn in as much by discounts and bonuses as brand loyalty the scheme dubbed equity for punks was a roaring success and in five years has raised over 6m but as a business what do you do when the majority of your shareholders are beer lovin mohawk sporting tie eschewing punks turn agm on its head and hold a festival instead hopefully not here because of a terrible misunderstanding about the title punkagm we arrived in scotland courtesy of brewdog who invited us and covered the trip early saturday morning the slate grey streets of aberdeen glowing in the sunshine as we landed slingshot with scotland s angriest taxi driver around the outskirts of town and on to the colossal warehouse that would house the event inside punks pr and press drinks in hand quickly got down to business the annual report that opened the day s tastings and oh how beleaguered tesco must wish its shareholders were punks brewdog s founders james watt and martin dickie crossed the packed arena floor to raucous cheering through a forest of raised glasses full or in most cases part full of the beers that they would reveal had underpinned a year of unprecedented growth it s testament to brewdog s army of punks of which there were 14 500 before the agm that the 6 000 or so of them in attendance the maximum the event could host not only showed up early enough for the address but listened with rapt attention i didn t begrudge james and martin the six pack they had on stage with them tie wearing corporates their shareholders are not but that doesn t mean they ll take bad news well but of course this is brewdog arguably one of the craft beer renaissance s most overwhelming success stories there was no bad news the company s turnover for 2014 was up a staggering 64 per cent to 29 6m their gross profit up 66 percent was 11 5m and with overheads of 7 8m ended up with a net profit pre tax of 3 7m brewdog has grown by 71 per cent in the last three years behind it all we re committed to making as many people as possible passionate about craft beer james explained brewdog comes under fire particularly in the london bubble for its aggressive marketing its appropriation of punk and doing too well too quickly a few years ago it was criticised for the inconsistency of its ubiquitous ipa punk but is this a case of the classic british distrust of success speaking personally i m a fan of brewdog s brash hoppy beers which speak to my palate i like that i can get them everywhere from sainsbury s local to wetherspoons in oslo via florence i fell for them even harder at the agm when i ran my stock feminist sort of trick question do you brew beers specifically aimed at women past alex myers director at manifest who handle brewdog s pr between drinks all our beers are for everyone he said immediately and with conviction 10 10 answer not a whiff of why of course we have a 3 per cent cherry flavoured beer and one that tastes like chocolate finally you can t deny brewdogs fans passion made manifest in the whopping number of shares sold be they the punks or the two scots on stage clutching their cans of craft brewdog has done a comprehensive round up of the agm announcements here our top lines us expansion brewdog which incredibly still still brews out of one soon to be expanded site at in ellon in aberdeenshire is expanding production and heading stateside with plans to open a 42 acre sister brewery in columbus ohio dog bless america indeed new beers born to die an imperial ipa with a life span of just 35 days was our beer of the weekend so great news that it s going to be made marginally more widely available the plan is to brew two batches that will appear in 660ml bottles and be available on keg the beer we tried that will die on 4 july was extravagantly hoppy delicious and citrus fresh will swears he was sweating hops the next day bd also announced its first equity punk inspired brew a 6 5 chocolate and coconut stout and a collaboration with beavertown called coffee and cigarettes which is exactly what those members of team beavertown aboard our early morning return flight to london on sunday looked like they needed new bars brewdog also announced a slew of new brewdog bars including deep breath leeds glasgow berlin brighton oslo rome leicester brussels and most importantly because it s at the end of my road in angel islington as well as london s soho which will apparently also have a beer themed sex shop bd s pr didn t explicitly deny this so you heard it here first until you didn t full of spirit and in the dog house finally bd also announced that they would be opening a craft distillery promising we are going to smash the world of spirits forever and shared some tantalising details about its planned hotel the kennel in ellon to be the first completely beer focused hotel in the uk with beer on tap in every room 2014 was ace james told us a broad understatement the beers with the agm down it was on to some serious drinking with not a watercooler or peppermint tea in sight in our experience the layout this year worked well and queues for the half dozen or so bars were short except for the food pop ups outside we legitimately queued for 50 minutes for a burrito the beer wasn t breathtakingly cheap 10 bought you six tokens and most beers served in pints 1 2s 2 3s and 1 3 cost two or three tokens so at 2 50 3 a third a hair s cheaper than london prices for some but a generous 2 a pint for others like punk ipa team icip drank our way round most of the bars why do you think it took so long to write this post our top tips born to die 04 07 2015 just glorious fresh us hops with zingy grapefruit notes full bodied hop punch did i mention it s hoppy basically my dream beer dog d at 16 per cent this hefty imperial stout was not a beer to mess with or drink at the end of the night as i did which probably explains why i had to have a nice lie down on the floor of the departure lounge the next morning aged in oak barrels it exudes chilli black treacle vanilla and whiskey notes for 28 hours after you drink it don t say i didn t warn you jack hammer another hop bomber this one a more gentle 7 2 looking back it s probably a bad sign that my tasting notes rendered this gentle by mid afternoon no matter more us hops here palette meltingly bitter also more widely available than the beers above might start a petition for sainsbury s to start stocking this one ballast point sculpin habanero there were beers other than brewdog and this stole the show i can only really claim to have had a half pint of this because so bowled over was i by the seedy habanero kick unlike any other chilli beer i have ever tasted that i offered a mouthful of it to everyone i encountered just to see the looks on their faces extraordinary the bands turns out that after a few pints of double digit strength beer i both recall the words to and enjoy many more idewild twin atlantic and pulled apart by horses songs than i realised leaping around like a lunatic to scottish emo was the perfect end to a fab day but this is a beer blog not a music blog so this entry is mostly an opportunity to showcase the one good photo i took with will s camera so proud the rest we only attended one tasting session with brewdog s own brewers and of lovely dog d and it was great you do have to fork over precious beer tokens to attend but it s well worth it in fact apart from booking the subsequent week off making more of those sessions is pretty much all we d do differently next year because dog willing we ll be back and we ll see you down the front this entry was posted in beer and travel festivals events women and beer and tagged beer beer festival beer tasting brewdog on 16 06 2015 by icipints beer of the week orbit leaf rauch alt leave a reply it tastes like garlic and werther s originals promised the promotor of the cause of leaf our beer of the week never ones to shirk away from a flavour combo that sounds like a masterchef ingredients challenge gone awry icip scooped up a few bottles of this altbeir style smoked beer from orbit a relatively new entry to the london craft brewing map leaf is a rauch alt which took me some unpicking rauchbier is an old german beer style typically smokey rauch means smoke in german i learned thanks to this beer because the young malt is dried over beech wood altbier literally old beer is a german style brown ale so label glossed we were expecting a smokey brown ale and man is that what this beer delivers it pours a clean ember y red with a melting sandy head once you get past the woody smoke on the nose leaf reveals all sorts of interesting complex layers soft cheese something quite earthy butterscotch and yep garlic taste wise it manages some impressive special effects like a sweet out of roald dahl s charlie and the chocolate factory it hits you with toffee caramel so far so brown ale with i thought a tang of citrus but that rolls away to peaty islay whisky warmed just slightly it feels afterwards like woodsmoke is billowing around your mouth it s almost disconcerting and clings a good minute after you ve finished like the morning after a bonfire for me there wasn t much left behind after the smoke died out but i m a tongue numbed hop addict and my taste testers disagreed completely detecting butterscotch y notes long after i d chugged another few mouthfuls to recreate the brilliant smoke effect even though it 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