Beer
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Withens
Pale Ale
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Brewery
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Little
Valley Brewery, Yorkshire
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ABV
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3.9%
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Nutritional
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Vegan,
Soil Assoc Organic, CAMRA Real Ale, Bottle conditioned
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Notes
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Well this
should be right up my street… a nice low ABV Pale Ale. Possible session
candidate. The label says “Light & Hoppy”, but notwithstanding the
mundane accuracy of this statement the bitter HOPPINESS FACEPUNCH is at first
overwhelming like a liver quiver Jackhammer attack. There is also an overtang
of yeast to deal with, but heyyyy its vegetarian, right? Underneath this
Marmite, the (limestone?) water used is clearly of a high quality, but this
is mitigated against by the (unnecessary in my opinion) heavy gassing of the
beer. The hops are Cascade variety, with “spice, orange and citrus” notes
which combine to give a heady floral backnote more redolent of Elderflowers
(probably due to valerianic acid). There is freshness and quality of
ingredients in this beer which is lacking in so many others, but for a Pale Ale,
there is far too much going on with the yeasty hops juxtaposing with the
higher note flavours and the omnipotent scorching volcanic gas for my liking,
and it adds up to a mission to drink a bottle of it. Should come with a
Gaviscon chaser.
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Marks /10
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4.0
(playing all the right notes, just not necessarily in the right order)
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By South Utsire
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