West Coast IPA (USA)
I had the opportunity to compare two IPAs from the book. While I was drinking this, my girlfriend was drinking Brewdog's Punk IPA. I have to say that after tasting this, I couldn't taste hers at all. That's not to say that the Brewdog's effort is bad, just that this is very, very good. I tend to prefer American IPAs to their British equivalent, and being an Anglophile it pains me to say that, but they're usually more bitter and hoppy and more flavourful. I'm not going to break out the stars and stripes and chant "USA! USA! USA!" just yet though.
Brains SA (Wales)
Rather nice, but lost a few points for being what can be best described as "medicine-y". I'm not sure if that was because the beer was old or not, because, to be fair, it had been sitting in my beer stash cupboard for quite a while. But like I said, it was still a nice reddish ale, one that I would definitely buy again. If only to see if a new bottle tasted any differently.
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