calumscott
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Went to the local 'spoons for the first time for a burger a lunchtime and the had Hill Climb on.
"Nice lunchtime beer," thinks I, "at only 3.8%".
To be honest, I wasn't ready for this. I was expecting a pretty standard, easy going pale, a thin-ish, thirst-quenching but, you know, a bit lacking all round as these sorts of things can be, ideal for lunchtime really but nothing that will set the world alight - you know the ones, we've all had plenty of them.
I got nothing like I expected!
How the hell they have packed so much malt and body into such a light beer is beyond me, it's got real guts, you feel like you've got a proper drink if you know what I mean. Then to cap it, is the perfect balancing bitterness - there's more than a couple of IBUs in there - and a lovely refreshing aroma hop wafting over it all, just tempting you back to the glass for draft after draft. Not surprised then to find out that it took the National Champion Standard Bitter at the SIBA awards in 2012...
Needless to say, I had a second!
The website only mentions MO and sugarpuffs, erm... sorry, torry and Bobek and Cascade hops. Where on earth do I start trying to emulate this?!?!?
"Nice lunchtime beer," thinks I, "at only 3.8%".
To be honest, I wasn't ready for this. I was expecting a pretty standard, easy going pale, a thin-ish, thirst-quenching but, you know, a bit lacking all round as these sorts of things can be, ideal for lunchtime really but nothing that will set the world alight - you know the ones, we've all had plenty of them.
I got nothing like I expected!
How the hell they have packed so much malt and body into such a light beer is beyond me, it's got real guts, you feel like you've got a proper drink if you know what I mean. Then to cap it, is the perfect balancing bitterness - there's more than a couple of IBUs in there - and a lovely refreshing aroma hop wafting over it all, just tempting you back to the glass for draft after draft. Not surprised then to find out that it took the National Champion Standard Bitter at the SIBA awards in 2012...
Needless to say, I had a second!
The website only mentions MO and sugarpuffs, erm... sorry, torry and Bobek and Cascade hops. Where on earth do I start trying to emulate this?!?!?
